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Border Trilogy Books in Order

by Cormac McCarthyLiterature & Fiction

3 books from All the Pretty Horses (1992) to Cities of the Plain (1998). Rated 4.6 across 10,272 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. All the Pretty Horses

    Book 1 1992 4.6 (6.8k)

    In spite of its hard realities and spare telling, All the Pretty Horses is a lyrical and richly romantic story, chronicling - along with the erosion of the frontier - the loss of an era....

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  2. The Crossing

    Book 2 1994 4.5 (1.8k)

    In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time gives us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic Western and the elegaic power of a…

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  3. Cities of the Plain

    Book 3 1998 4.6 (1.6k)

    In his novels, best-selling author Cormac McCarthy creates a western landscape filled with characters that are both mythic and authentic.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Border Trilogy is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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