Books written by Conrad Richter

  • The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories
    The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories

    Eight stories by the Pulitzer Prize-winner share similar settings and characters --pioneer days and the pioneers who lived them --and are bound by the unifying theme of marriage.

  • Giving Up the Ghosts: Short-Lived Occult Detective Series by Six Renowned Authors
    Giving Up the Ghosts: Short-Lived Occult Detective Series by Six Renowned Authors

    There are also characters who rely on their own supernatural abilities in their battle against lawbreakers. These are the occult detectives.

  • Early Americana and Other Stories
    Early Americana and Other Stories

    Early Americana and Other Stories

  • Smoke Over the Prairie

    "During this period, Richter also published the novels of his trilogy The Awakening Land, about the Ohio frontier: The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950). In 1947 he won the Ohioana Book Award for The Fields.

  • The Waters of Kronos
    The Waters of Kronos

    “May it never go out of print again”: An old man returns to his now-submerged Pennsylvania hometown in this National Book Award–winning classic (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

  • Simple Honorable Man
    Simple Honorable Man

    This novel by one of America’s foremost writers—and perhaps the most truly American of all—is rock-based in values and virtues which most of the time seem to have disappeared from our fiction, if not from American life itself.

  • The Lady
    The Lady

    Rivalry between sheepmen and cattlemen in early 20th century New Mexico in a first-person narrative.

  • The Trees

    Here, in the first novel of Conrad Richter's Awakening Land trilogy, the Lucketts, a wild, woods-faring family, lived their roaming life, pushing ever westward as the frontier advanced and as new settlements threatened their isolation.

  • The Aristocrat
    The Aristocrat

    Like her dear ones and her adversaries, her servants and her fellow townspeople, the reader will take his hat off to the Aristocrat. She is the last of her kind.

  • The Free Man
    The Free Man

    This engaging work of historical fiction will be enjoyed by adults and younger readers alike.

  • The Town
    The Town

    Here is the tumultuous story of the Lucketts, an American family born in the wilderness, grown to face the changing ways of America during the turmoil that was the first half of the nineteenth century.

  • Brothers of No Kin, and Other Stories

    Brothers of No Kin, and Other Stories