Appaloosa vs The Pistoleer: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Thieves, Outlaws, Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns, Fiction
Appaloosa
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher who’s already left the city marshal and one of his deputies dead. Cole and Hitch are used to cleaning…
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The Pistoleer
The award-winning author's "fearless" debut novel chronicles the life of a legendary Texas outlaw with "a ruthless sensibility . . . spare and tough" (Publishers Weekly).   Some called him a Texas…
The verdict
- Readers rate Appaloosa highest: Appaloosa 4.4 · The Pistoleer 4.1.
- Appaloosa is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 8 for The Pistoleer.
- The Pistoleer has the widest readership — 604 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Appaloosa | The Pistoleer | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.1 (604) |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (12) | — |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (243) | 4.5 (28) |
Reception
| Appaloosa | The Pistoleer | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 243 | 604 |
| Editions | 3 | 16 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 11691 | — |
| Pages | 296 | 464 |