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Louis L’Amour Books in Order

Find every Louis L’Amour book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 190 books / 11 series

American author best known for the Sackett series and *Hondo*. His 100+ novels have sold over 320 million copies worldwide. This page provides the Louis L’Amour books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Louis L’Amour Books in Chronological Order

1939 Smoke from This Altar POoSSC / 1 Buy
1951 Riders of the Dawn POoLLASS / 1 Buy
1951 The Riders of High Rock POoHCB / 1 Buy
1951 The Rustlers of West Fork POoHCB / 2 Buy
1951 The Trail to Seven Pines POoHCB / 3 Buy
1952 Trouble Shooter POoHCB / 4 Buy
1953 Hondo POoLLLTB / 1 Buy
1953 Showdown at Yellow Butte POoLLSN / 1 Buy
1954 Kilkenny POoLLLTB / 2 Buy
1954 Crossfire Trail POoLLSN / 2 Buy
1954 Utah Blaine POoLLSN / 3 Buy
1955 To Tame a Land POoLLSN / 4 Buy
1955 Heller with a Gun POoLLSN / 5 Buy
1955 Guns of the Timberlands POoLLSN / 6 Buy
1956 Silver Canyon POoLLSN / 7 Buy
1956 The Burning Hills POoLLSN / 8 Buy
1957 Sitka POoLLSN / 9 Buy
1957 The Tall Stranger POoLLSN / 10 Buy
1957 Last Stand at Papago Wells POoLLSN / 11 Buy
1959 Taggart POoLLLTB / 3 Buy
1959 Radigan POoLLSN / 12 Buy
1960 The Daybreakers POoTSB / 1 Buy
1960 Flint POoLLSN / 13 Buy
1961 Sackett POoTSB / 2 Buy
1962 Lando POoTSB / 3 Buy
1962 Shalako POoLLLTB / 4 Buy
1962 How the West Was Won POoLLLTB / 5 Buy
1962 High Lonesome POoLLSN / 14 Buy
1962 Killoe POoLLSN / 15 Buy
1963 Dark Canyon POoLLSN / 16 Buy
1964 Mojave Crossing POoTSB / 4 Buy
1964 Kiowa Trail POoLLSN / 17 Buy
1964 Hanging Woman Creek POoLLSN / 18 Buy
1965 The Sackett Brand POoTSB / 5 Buy
1965 The Key-Lock Man POoLLSN / 19 Buy
1965 The High Graders POoLLSN / 20 Buy
1966 Kid Rodelo POoLLLTB / 6 Buy
1966 Mustang Man POoTSB / 6 Buy
1966 The Broken Gun POoLLSN / 21 Buy
1966 Kilrone POoLLSN / 22 Buy
1967 The Sky-Liners POoTSB / 7 Buy
1967 Matagorda POoLLSN / 23 Buy
1968 Down the Long Hills POoLLLTB / 7 Buy
1968 Chancy POoLLSN / 24 Buy
1968 Brionne POoLLSN / 25 Buy
1969 The Man Called Noon POoLLLTB / 8 Buy
1969 The Lonely Men POoTSB / 8 Buy
1969 The Empty Land POoLLLTB / 9 Buy
1969 Fallon POoLLLTB / 10 Buy
1969 Conagher POoLLSN / 26 Buy
1970 Galloway POoTSB / 9 Buy
1970 Reilly's Luck POoLLLTB / 11 Buy
1971 North to the Rails POoCB / 1 Buy
1971 Under the Sweetwater Rim POoLLSN / 27 Buy
1971 Tucker POoLLSN / 28 Buy
1972 Ride the Dark Trail POoTSB / 10 Buy
1972 Treasure Mountain POoTSB / 11 Buy
1972 Callaghen POoLLLTB / 12 Buy
1973 Fair Blows the Wind POoCB / 2 Buy
1973 War Party POoTSB / 12 Buy
1973 The Ferguson Rifle POoLLLTB / 14 Buy
1973 The Man from Skibbereen POoLLSN / 29 Buy
1973 The Quick and the Dead POoLLSN / 30 Buy
1974 Sackett's Land POoTSB / 13 Buy
1974 The Californios POoLLSN / 31 Buy
1975 Rivers West POoTB / 1 Buy
1975 The Man from the Broken Hills POoTB / 2 Buy
1975 Over on the Dry Side POoCB / 4 Buy
1976 The Rider of Lost Creek POoKB / 2 Buy
1976 To the Far Blue Mountains POoTSB / 14 Buy
1976 Westward the Tide POoLLLTB / 16 Buy
1976 Where the Long Grass Blows POoLLSN / 32 Buy
1977 Borden Chantry POoCB / 5 Buy
1978 The Mountain Valley War / A Man Called Trent POoKB / 3 Buy
1979 Bendigo Shafter POoLLLTB / 17 Buy
1979 The Iron Marshal POoLLSN / 33 Buy
1979 The Proving Trail POoLLSN / 34 Buy
1979 Kiowa Trail and Killoe POoLLSN / 35 Buy
1980 The Strong Shall Live POoSSC / 2 Buy
1980 Lonely on the Mountain POoTSB / 15 Buy
1980 Yondering POoLLLTB / 18 Buy
1981 Milo Talon POoTB / 3 Buy
1981 Buckskin Run POoSSC / 3 Buy
1981 Comstock Lode POoLLLTB / 19 Buy
1982 The Cherokee Trail POoLLSN / 36 Buy
1982 The ShadowRiders POoLLSN / 37 Buy
1983 Law of the Desert Born POoSSC / 4 Buy
1983 Ride the River POoTSB / 16 Buy
1983 The Lonesome Gods POoLLLTB / 20 Buy
1983 The Hills of Homicide POoLLLTB / 21 Buy
1983 Bowdrie POoLLLTB / 22 Buy
1984 Frontier POoLLNB / 1 Buy
1984 Bowdrie's Law POoSSC / 5 Buy
1984 The Warrior's Path POoTSB / 17 Buy
1984 The Walking Drum POoLLLTB / 23 Buy
1984 Son of a Wanted Man POoLLSN / 38 Buy
1985 Jubal Sackett POoTSB / 18 Buy
1985 Passin' Through POoLLLTB / 24 Buy
1986 Dutchman's Flat POoSSC / 6 Buy
1986 Night Over the Solomons POoSSC / 7 Buy
1986 The Trail to Crazy Man POoSSC / 8 Buy
1986 Man Riding West POoSSC / 9 Buy
1986 The Rider of the Ruby Hills POoSSC / 10 Buy
1986 Last of the Breed POoLLLTB / 25 Buy
1986 Where Buzzards Fly POoLLSN / 39 Buy
1986 Riding for the Brand POoLLSN / 40 Buy
1986 South of Deadwood POoLLSN / 41 Buy
1987 West from Singapore POoSSC / 11 Buy
1987 The Haunted Mesa POoLLLTB / 26 Buy
1987 Showdown Trail POoLLSN / 42 Buy
1987 Dead End Drift POoLLSN / 43 Buy
1988 The Sackett Companion POoLLNB / 2 Buy
1988 A Trail of Memories POoLLNB / 3 Buy
1988 Lonigan POoSSC / 12 Buy
1988 The Turkeyfeather Riders POoLLSN / 44 Buy
1988 Four Card Draw POoLLSN / 45 Buy
1988 Bowdrie Passes Through POoLLSN / 46 Buy
1989 Education of a Wandering Man POoLLNB / 4 Buy
1989 Long Ride Home POoSSC / 13 Buy
1989 Too Tough to Brand POoLLSN / 47 Buy
1990 Grub Line Rider POoSSC / 14 Buy
1990 The Outlaws of Mesquite POoSSC / 15 Buy
1992 The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon POoLLASS / 2 Buy
1992 West of the Tularosa POoSSC / 16 Buy
1992 The Louis L'Amour Companion(With: Robert Weinberg) POoLLSN / 48 Buy
1994 Black Rock: A Western Trio POoSSC / 17 Buy
1995 Valley of the Sun POoSSC / 18 Buy
1995 The Marshal of Sentinel POoLLSN / 49 Buy
1996 West of Dodge POoKB / 4 Buy
1996 West of Dodge Collection POoSSC / 19 Buy
1997 A Gun for Kilkenny POoKB / 5 Buy
1997 End of the Drive POoTSB / 19 Buy
1997 Mistakes Can Kill You POoSSC / 20 Buy
1997 Strawhouse Trail POoLLSN / 50 Buy
1998 Monument Rock POoKB / 6 Buy
1999 Beyond the Great Snow Mountains POoSSC / 22 Buy
1999 Love and the Cactus Kid POoLLSN / 51 Buy
1999 Survival POoLLSN / 52 Buy
2000 Stories of the Golden West: Book 1(By: Jon Tuska) POoTGWB / 1 Buy
2000 Off the Mangrove Coast POoLLLTB / 27 Buy
2001 Stories of the Golden West, Book 2(By: Jon Tuska) POoTGWB / 2 Buy
2001 May There Be a Road POoSSC / 23 Buy
2002 Stories of the Golden West, Book 3(By: Zane Grey,Max Brand,Jon Tuska,Christopher Lane) POoTGWB / 3 Buy
2002 Stories of the Golden West, Book 4(By: Jon Tuska) POoTGWB / 4 Buy
2002 With These Hands POoSSC / 24 Buy
2002 Louis L'Amour Trail Mix: Volume Two POoSSC / 25 Buy
2003 From the Listening Hills POoSSC / 26 Buy
2003 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1 POoSSC / 27 Buy
2003 Lit a Shuck for Texas POoLLSN / 53 Buy
2003 The Sixth Shotgun POoLLSN / 54 Buy
2003 The First Fast Draw POoLLSN / 55 Buy
2004 Stories of the Golden West, Book 5(By: Grover Gardner,Zane Grey,Max Brand,Jon Tuska) POoTGWB / 5 Buy
2004 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2 POoSSC / 28 Buy
2005 Stories of the Golden West, Book 6(By: Zane Grey) POoTGWB / 6 Buy
2005 Home in the Valley POoSSC / 29 Buy
2005 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 3 POoSSC / 30 Buy
2006 Stories of the Golden West, Book 7(With: Zane Grey,Max Brand,Jon Tuska) POoTGWB / 7 Buy
2006 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4 POoSSC / 31 Buy
2007 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour Volume 5 POoSSC / 32 Buy
2007 Big Country, Volume 1 POoSSC / 33 Buy
2008 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 6 POoSSC / 34 Buy
2008 His Brother's Debt POoLLSN / 56 Buy
2008 Big Medicine POoLLSN / 57 Buy
2008 Job for a Ranger POoLLSN / 58 Buy
2008 No Man's Man POoLLSN / 59 Buy
2008 Medicine Ground POoLLSN / 60 Buy
2008 That Triggernometry Tenderfoot POoLLSN / 61 Buy
2009 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 7 POoSSC / 35 Buy
2009 The Frontier Stories POoSSC / 36 Buy
2010 Big Country, Vol. 3 POoSSC / 37 Buy
2010 The Man from Battle Flat POoSSC / 38 Buy
2010 Dawn Riders POoLLSN / 62 Buy
2011 Glory Riders POoSSC / 39 Buy
2012 The Strong Land POoSSC / 40 Buy
2012 Unguarded Moment POoLLSN / 63 Buy
2013 Desert Death-Song POoSSC / 41 Buy
2013 The Black Rock Coffin Makers POoLLSN / 64 Buy
2014 We Shaped the Land with Our Guns POoSSC / 42 Buy
2014 Riders of the Tumbling K POoLLSN / 65 Buy
2014 A Man Called Trent POoLLSN / 66 Buy
2015 The Chick Bowdrie Short Stories Bundle POoSSC / 43 Buy
2016 Golden Gunmen POoSSC / 44 Buy
2017 Martin H. M. Schreiber: Last of a Breed POoLLNB / 5 Buy
2017 Showdown POoLLSN / 67 Buy
2018 Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures - Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes POoLLNB / 6 Buy
2018 Catlow POoLLLTB / 28 Buy
2018 No Traveller Returns POoLLLTB / 29 Buy
2018 Three Bullets for the Cactus Kid POoLLSN / 68 Buy
2019 Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2 - More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes POoLLNB / 7 Buy
2019 Bannon POoLLSN / 69 Buy

Louis L’Amour Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

01 Smoke from This Altar 1939 Buy
02 The Strong Shall Live 1980 Buy
03 Buckskin Run 1981 Buy
04 Law of the Desert Born 1983 Buy
05 Bowdrie's Law 1984 Buy
06 Dutchman's Flat 1986 Buy
07 Night Over the Solomons 1986 Buy
08 The Trail to Crazy Man 1986 Buy
09 Man Riding West 1986 Buy
10 The Rider of the Ruby Hills 1986 Buy
11 West from Singapore 1987 Buy
12 Lonigan 1988 Buy
13 Long Ride Home 1989 Buy
14 Grub Line Rider 1990 Buy
15 The Outlaws of Mesquite 1990 Buy
16 West of the Tularosa 1992 Buy
17 Black Rock: A Western Trio 1994 Buy
18 Valley of the Sun 1995 Buy
19 West of Dodge Collection 1996 Buy
20 Mistakes Can Kill You 1997 Buy
22 Beyond the Great Snow Mountains 1999 Buy
23 May There Be a Road 2001 Buy
24 With These Hands 2002 Buy
25 Louis L'Amour Trail Mix: Volume Two 2002 Buy
26 From the Listening Hills 2003 Buy
27 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1 2003 Buy
28 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2 2004 Buy
29 Home in the Valley 2005 Buy
30 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 3 2005 Buy
31 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4 2006 Buy
32 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour Volume 5 2007 Buy
33 Big Country, Volume 1 2007 Buy
34 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 6 2008 Buy
35 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 7 2009 Buy
36 The Frontier Stories 2009 Buy
37 Big Country, Vol. 3 2010 Buy
38 The Man from Battle Flat 2010 Buy
39 Glory Riders 2011 Buy
40 The Strong Land 2012 Buy
41 Desert Death-Song 2013 Buy
42 We Shaped the Land with Our Guns 2014 Buy
43 The Chick Bowdrie Short Stories Bundle 2015 Buy
44 Golden Gunmen 2016 Buy
01 Hondo 1953 Buy
02 Kilkenny 1954 Buy
03 Taggart 1959 Buy
04 Shalako 1962 Buy
05 How the West Was Won 1962 Buy
06 Kid Rodelo 1966 Buy
07 Down the Long Hills 1968 Buy
08 The Man Called Noon 1969 Buy
09 The Empty Land 1969 Buy
10 Fallon 1969 Buy
11 Reilly's Luck 1970 Buy
12 Callaghen 1972 Buy
14 The Ferguson Rifle 1973 Buy
16 Westward the Tide 1976 Buy
17 Bendigo Shafter 1979 Buy
18 Yondering 1980 Buy
19 Comstock Lode 1981 Buy
20 The Lonesome Gods 1983 Buy
21 The Hills of Homicide 1983 Buy
22 Bowdrie 1983 Buy
23 The Walking Drum 1984 Buy
24 Passin' Through 1985 Buy
25 Last of the Breed 1986 Buy
26 The Haunted Mesa 1987 Buy
27 Off the Mangrove Coast 2000 Buy
28 Catlow 2018 Buy
29 No Traveller Returns 2018 Buy
Chantry Books in Reading Order 4 books / 1971-1977
01 North to the Rails 1971 Buy
02 Fair Blows the Wind 1973 Buy
04 Over on the Dry Side 1975 Buy
05 Borden Chantry 1977 Buy
01 Frontier 1984 Buy
02 The Sackett Companion 1988 Buy
03 A Trail of Memories 1988 Buy
04 Education of a Wandering Man 1989 Buy
05 Martin H. M. Schreiber: Last of a Breed 2017 Buy
06 Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures - Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes 2018 Buy
07 Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2 - More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes 2019 Buy
Kilkenny Books in Reading Order 5 books / 1976-1998
02 The Rider of Lost Creek 1976 Buy
03 The Mountain Valley War / A Man Called Trent 1978 Buy
04 West of Dodge 1996 Buy
05 A Gun for Kilkenny 1997 Buy
06 Monument Rock 1998 Buy
01 Stories of the Golden West: Book 1(By: Jon Tuska) 2000 Buy
02 Stories of the Golden West, Book 2(By: Jon Tuska) 2001 Buy
03 Stories of the Golden West, Book 3(By: Zane Grey,Max Brand,Jon Tuska,Christopher Lane) 2002 Buy
04 Stories of the Golden West, Book 4(By: Jon Tuska) 2002 Buy
05 Stories of the Golden West, Book 5(By: Grover Gardner,Zane Grey,Max Brand,Jon Tuska) 2004 Buy
06 Stories of the Golden West, Book 6(By: Zane Grey) 2005 Buy
07 Stories of the Golden West, Book 7(With: Zane Grey,Max Brand,Jon Tuska) 2006 Buy
01 The Riders of High Rock 1951 Buy
02 The Rustlers of West Fork 1951 Buy
03 The Trail to Seven Pines 1951 Buy
04 Trouble Shooter 1952 Buy
01 Riders of the Dawn 1951 Buy
02 The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon 1992 Buy
Talon Books in Reading Order 3 books / 1975-1981
01 Rivers West 1975 Buy
02 The Man from the Broken Hills 1975 Buy
03 Milo Talon 1981 Buy
01 The Daybreakers 1960 Buy
02 Sackett 1961 Buy
03 Lando 1962 Buy
04 Mojave Crossing 1964 Buy
05 The Sackett Brand 1965 Buy
06 Mustang Man 1966 Buy
07 The Sky-Liners 1967 Buy
08 The Lonely Men 1969 Buy
09 Galloway 1970 Buy
10 Ride the Dark Trail 1972 Buy
11 Treasure Mountain 1972 Buy
12 War Party 1973 Buy
13 Sackett's Land 1974 Buy
14 To the Far Blue Mountains 1976 Buy
15 Lonely on the Mountain 1980 Buy
16 Ride the River 1983 Buy
17 The Warrior's Path 1984 Buy
18 Jubal Sackett 1985 Buy
19 End of the Drive 1997 Buy
01 Showdown at Yellow Butte 1953 Buy
02 Crossfire Trail 1954 Buy
03 Utah Blaine 1954 Buy
04 To Tame a Land 1955 Buy
05 Heller with a Gun 1955 Buy
06 Guns of the Timberlands 1955 Buy
07 Silver Canyon 1956 Buy
08 The Burning Hills 1956 Buy
09 Sitka 1957 Buy
10 The Tall Stranger 1957 Buy
11 Last Stand at Papago Wells 1957 Buy
12 Radigan 1959 Buy
13 Flint 1960 Buy
14 High Lonesome 1962 Buy
15 Killoe 1962 Buy
16 Dark Canyon 1963 Buy
17 Kiowa Trail 1964 Buy
18 Hanging Woman Creek 1964 Buy
19 The Key-Lock Man 1965 Buy
20 The High Graders 1965 Buy
21 The Broken Gun 1966 Buy
22 Kilrone 1966 Buy
23 Matagorda 1967 Buy
24 Chancy 1968 Buy
25 Brionne 1968 Buy
26 Conagher 1969 Buy
27 Under the Sweetwater Rim 1971 Buy
28 Tucker 1971 Buy
29 The Man from Skibbereen 1973 Buy
30 The Quick and the Dead 1973 Buy
31 The Californios 1974 Buy
32 Where the Long Grass Blows 1976 Buy
33 The Iron Marshal 1979 Buy
34 The Proving Trail 1979 Buy
35 Kiowa Trail and Killoe 1979 Buy
36 The Cherokee Trail 1982 Buy
37 The ShadowRiders 1982 Buy
38 Son of a Wanted Man 1984 Buy
39 Where Buzzards Fly 1986 Buy
40 Riding for the Brand 1986 Buy
41 South of Deadwood 1986 Buy
42 Showdown Trail 1987 Buy
43 Dead End Drift 1987 Buy
44 The Turkeyfeather Riders 1988 Buy
45 Four Card Draw 1988 Buy
46 Bowdrie Passes Through 1988 Buy
47 Too Tough to Brand 1989 Buy
48 The Louis L'Amour Companion(With: Robert Weinberg) 1992 Buy
49 The Marshal of Sentinel 1995 Buy
50 Strawhouse Trail 1997 Buy
51 Love and the Cactus Kid 1999 Buy
52 Survival 1999 Buy
53 Lit a Shuck for Texas 2003 Buy
54 The Sixth Shotgun 2003 Buy
55 The First Fast Draw 2003 Buy
56 His Brother's Debt 2008 Buy
57 Big Medicine 2008 Buy
58 Job for a Ranger 2008 Buy
59 No Man's Man 2008 Buy
60 Medicine Ground 2008 Buy
61 That Triggernometry Tenderfoot 2008 Buy
62 Dawn Riders 2010 Buy
63 Unguarded Moment 2012 Buy
64 The Black Rock Coffin Makers 2013 Buy
65 Riders of the Tumbling K 2014 Buy
66 A Man Called Trent 2014 Buy
67 Showdown 2017 Buy
68 Three Bullets for the Cactus Kid 2018 Buy
69 Bannon 2019 Buy

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Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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