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Right there is Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, published in 1960, the story of Atticus Finch’s family in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, told through the eyes of his eight-year-old daughter Jean Louise, called Scout.Ī small-town southern lawyer, Atticus (as Scout and her brother Jeremy, or Jem, always call their father) defends Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in the mid-1930s. These books are all equally great, in my opinion. Lonesome Dove is as great a book as I’ve read, but I’m not going to rank my favourites from one to 10. I’d never read a cowboy novel until I read Larry McMurtry. Dead Man’s Walk, Comanche Moon and Streets of Laredo explore more of the exploits of Call and McCrae, before and after Lonesome Dove. McMurtry wrote more than 30 novels and 30 screenplays, and he obviously knew a good story when he wrote one. Lonesome Dove won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in fiction and three years later became a hugely popular TV mini-series starring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones and Anjelica Huston. McCrae and Call are what’s called highly capable men they’re stubborn, a little grumpy and certainly set in their ways, but even before push comes to shove on the plains, they not only know what to do, they do it and efficiently Call are two of the greatest cowboy characters ever imagined, and McMurtry brought them to life as they struggled for a decade to make a living in the little town of Lonesome Dove, then headed north with thousands of cattle through deserts, rivers, winter and grasslands. McMurtry, an American who died at 84, wrote Lonesome Dove, a sprawling story of two retired Texas Rangers who drive a herd of cattle from the Rio Grande to Montana during the late 1800s.Ĭaptain Augustus McCrae and Captain Woodrow F.

Larry McMurtry’s recent death got me thinking about the greatest books I’ve read.