Looking for a Book about Colorado? Here Are Some Ideas

Virtually hundreds of novels in print use Colorado as a setting. Here are a few classics you might want to read for fun:

GENERAL:

Curry, Peggy Simson, “So Far From Spring,”

Cutler, Bruce, “The Massacre at Sand Creek,”

Dallas, Sandra, “The Diary of Mattie Spenser,”

Dieter, William, “Beyond the Mountain,”

Downing, Sybil, “Fire in the Hole,”

Dunning John, “Denver,”

Gear, Kathleen O’Neal, “Thin Moon and Cold Mist,”

Greenberg, Joanne, “No Reck’ning Made,”

Hansen, Ron, “Atticus,”

Haruf, Kent, “Where You Once Belonged,”

Irving, Clifford, “The Spring,”

Lavender, David, “Red Mountain,”

Leasure, Robert, “Black Mountain,”

Long, Elizabeth, “Jenny’s Mountain,”

Michener, James, “Centennial,”

Patten, Lewis B., “Massacre at White River,”

Raine, William MacLeod, “Colorado,”

Roy, Ron, “Avalanche!”

Rundy, Clyde, “Grasslands,”

Saul, John, “Creature,”

Simmons, Dan, “Children of the Night,”

Sinclair, Upton, “The Coal War,”

Waters, Frank, “Pike’s Peak,”

Wells, Marian, “Colorado Gold,”

Yarbro, Chelsey Quinn, “Charity, Colorado,”

MYSTERIES:

Barr, Nevada, “Ill Wind,”

Burns, Rex, “The Avenging Angel,”, “Bloodline,”, “The Leaning Land,”

Cail, Carol, “Unsafe Keeping,”, “If Two of

Them Are Dead,”

Doss, James, “The Shaman Sings,” “The Shaman’s Bones,”

Dunning, John, “Booked to Die,”

Orde, A.J., “Death and the Dogwalker,” 1990

Ramos, Manuel, “The Last Client of Luis Montez,” “Blues for the Buffalo,”

Zigal, Thomas, “Into Thin Air,”; “Hardrock Stiff,”

WESTERNS:

Edgerton, Clyde, “Redeye,”

Harmon, Susan, “Colorado Ransom,”; “Spirit

of a Bear,”

Johnston, Terry, “Carry the Wind,”

Schofield, Susan, “Telluride”