Larry McMurtry was an American author and screenwriter of novels set in the West; whether they be set historically or during contemporary times. He had also written several works of non-fiction. He was best known for his novels Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove and co-writing the screenplay to Brokeback Mountain. Both Brokeback Mountain and Terms of Endearment won Academy Awards, while Lonesome Dove won a Pulitzer Prize.

Larry McMurtry became a published novelist in 1961 with Horseman, Pass By. That novel would be adapted into the film Hud, which the novel was also released as.

Larry passed on March 25th, 2021. he was 84 years old.

Below is a list of Larry McMurtry’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Thalia, Texas Books

(by)

Horseman, Pass By / Hud (1961)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Leaving Cheyenne (1962)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Thalia (2017)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Last Picture Show Books

The Last Picture Show (1966)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Texasville (1987)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Duane's Depressed (1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
When the Light Goes (2007)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Rhino Ranch (2009)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Houston Books

Moving On (1970)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Terms of Endearment (1975)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Somebody's Darling (1978)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Some Can Whistle (1989)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Evening Star (1992)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Desert Rose Books

The Desert Rose (1983)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Late Child (1995)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Lonesome Dove Books

Lonesome Dove (1985)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Streets of Laredo (1993)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Dead Man's Walk (1995)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Comanche Moon (1997)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Chronological Order of Lonesome Dove Books

Dead Man's Walk(1995)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Comanche Moon(1997)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Lonesome Dove(1985)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Streets of Laredo(1993)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Berrybender Narratives Books

Sin Killer (2002)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Wandering Hill (2003)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
By Sorrow's River (2003)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Folly and Glory (2004)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Cadillac Jack (1982)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Anything for Billy (1988)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Buffalo Girls (1990)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Pretty Boy Floyd (With: Diana Ossana) (1994)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Zeke and Ned (With: Diana Ossana) (1997)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Boone's Lick (2000)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Loop Group (2004)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Telegraph Days (2006)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Last Kind Words Saloon (2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (With: Annie Proulx,Diana Ossana) (2005)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas (1968)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood (1987)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Crazy Horse (1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways (2000)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Paradise (2001)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West (2001)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890 (2005)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Colonel and Little Missie (2006)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Books: A Memoir (2008)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Literary Life: A Second Memoir (2009)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Hollywood: A Third Memoir (2010)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Custer (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Missouri River (2015)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Penguin Lives Biographies Books

Crazy Horse (1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Marcel Proust (By: Edmund White) (1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Mozart (By: ) (1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Saint Augustine (By: Garry Wills) (1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
James Joyce (By: Edna O'Brien) (1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Mao Zedong (By: Jonathan D. Spence) (1999)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Virginia Woolf (By: ) (2000)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Woodrow Wilson (By: Louis Auchincloss) (2000)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Herman Melville (By: ) (2000)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Rosa Parks (By: Douglas Brinkley) (2000)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Leonardo da Vinci (By: ) (2000)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Jane Austen (By: Carol Shields) (2001)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Buddha (By: Karen Armstrong) (2001)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Simone Weil (By: ) (2001)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Dante (By: ) (2001)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Andy Warhol (By: ) (2001)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Winston Churchill (By: John Keegan) (2002)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Pope John XXIII (By: Thomas Cahill) (2002)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Martin Luther King, Jr. (By: ) (2002)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Charles Dickens (By: Jane Smiley) (2002)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Napoleon (By: Paul Johnson) (2002)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Elvis Presley (By: Bobbie Ann Mason) (2002)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Joseph Smith (By: Robert V. Remini) (2002)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Robert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.) (2003)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Saint Therese of Lisieux (By: Kathryn Harrison) (2003)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Martin Luther (By: ) (2004)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
George Herbert Walker Bush (By: Tom Wicker) (2004)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Frank Lloyd Wright (By: Ada Louise Huxtable) (2004)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Julia Child (By: Laura Shapiro) (2007)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Joan of Arc (By: Mary Gordon) (2008)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Branch Rickey (By: ) (2011)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Anthologies

Southwest Stories(1993)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Still Wild(2000)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Lone Star Literature(2003)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Notes: Horseman, Pass By was also released under the title Hud. The novels Pretty Boy Floyd and Zeke and Ned were written alongside Diana Ossana. Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay was written with Diana Ossana and Annie Proulx.

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