Close Range: Wyoming StoriesModern · Short Stories, Fiction, Westerns
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
1999 · 332 pages · Fiction
33
Modern
★ 3.99 on Goodreads · 19K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (2000). 3.99★ from 19K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
33Must-Read Score
- Readers44 out of 100 · counts 40%+20
- Critics32 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+12
- Bestseller6 out of 100 · counts 14%+1
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #489 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #1061 of the 1,405 books we rank
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (2000)
Reads as
Adventurous, Moving
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