Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

The Time It Never Rained

The Time It Never Rained
  • Author(s): Elmer Kelton
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man’s biggest enemy is one he can’t control. With their entire livelihood pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush their...

The Wretched and Undone

The Wretched and Undone
  • Author(s): J E Weiner
  • Location(s): San Antonio
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): civil war

On the eve of the Civil War, Polish immigrants Marcin and Agnieszka Anderwald arrive in Bandera, Texas, seeking a fresh start in a new land of faith, fertile soil, and freedom. But their dreams quickly become nightmares when Marcin...

Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here

Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here
  • Author(s): Nancy Wayson Dinan
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

2015. 18-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather’s wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire...

This Is My America

This Is My America
  • Author(s): Kim Johnson
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time–her dad has only 267 days left....

Thyme of Death

Thyme of Death
  • Author(s): Susan Wittig Albert
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Susan Wittig Albert’s novels featuring ex-lawyer and herb-shop proprietor China Bayles have won acclaim for their rich characterization and witty, suspenseful stories of crime and passion in small-town Texas. Now, when China’s friend Jo dies of an apparent suicide,...

Track of the Cat

Track of the Cat
  • Author(s): Nevada Barr
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna Pigeon fled the turmoil of New York to become a national park ranger, only to discover she hasn’t escaped murder and violence. When a colleague is killed, claw marks on the victim’s throat and paw prints around the...

Two for Texas

Two for Texas
  • Author(s): James Lee Burke
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1830s

An evocative novel set during the Texas revolution from award-winning author James Lee Burke. Son Holland arrived in the Louisiana penal camp determined not to spend the rest of his days suffering in a chain gang – but he...

Valentine

Valentine
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Wetmore
  • Location(s): Odessa, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Mercy is hard in a place like this. I wished him dead before I ever saw his face…’ Mary Rose Whitehead isn’t looking for trouble – but when it shows up at her front door, she finds she can’t...

Vernon God Little

Vernon God Little
  • Author(s): D B C Pierre
  • Location(s): Texas, Martirio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the small town of Martirio, Texas, fifteen-year-old Vernon Little finds himself in deep trouble after his best friend Jesus kills sixteen of his classmates before committing suicide. Vernon becomes the target of townspeople in search of vengeance and...

We Are All the Same in the Dark

We Are All the Same in the Dark
  • Author(s): Julia Heaberlin
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town’s legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans. “If...

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now