Lonesome Dove vs True Grit: Which Should You Read?

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry · 1985 ★★★★★ 4.5 945 pages · ≈ 17 h 30 m · Moderate

Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major noel at last of the American West as it really was. A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome…

True Grit Charles Portis · 1968 ★★★★☆ 4.3 220 pages · ≈ 4 h 04 m · Moderate

True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort…