Larry McMurtry - Books, Novels and Films

Books, Novels and Films

• 1961: Horseman, Pass By—adapted for film as Hud
• 1963: Leaving Cheyenne—adapted for film as Lovin' Molly
• 1966: The Last Picture Show—adapted into a film of the same name
• 1968: In A Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas
• 1970: Moving On—This 1970 book was given high reviews by several women's organizations for its unflinching depiction of the main character Patsy Carpenter (who later appears in All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers, Terms of Endearment, and The Evening Star)
• 1972: All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers—a continuation of characters from Moving On
• 1974: It's Always We Rambled (essay)
• 1975: Terms of Endearment—a continuation of characters from Moving On and All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers—adapted into a film of the same name
• 1978: Somebody's Darling—a continuation of the character Jill Peel from All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers
• 1982: Cadillac Jack
• 1983: Desert Rose
• 1985: Lonesome Dove, 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner, and first of what became a series
• 1987: Texasville—adapted into a film of the same name, and a continuation of the story begun in The Last Picture Show
• 1987: Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood
• 1988: Anything For Billy
• 1988: The Murder of Mary Phagan—TV story
• 1989: Some Can Whistle—a continuation of the story begun in All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers.
• 1990: Buffalo Girls—adapted into a TV movie
• 1990: Montana—TV movie
• 1992: The Evening Star—adapted for film as The Evening Star and a continuation of the story begun in Terms of Endearment and Moving On and All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers
• 1992: Memphis—TV movie
• 1992: Falling from Grace
• 1993: Streets of Laredo, another in the Lonesome Dove series
• 1994: Pretty Boy Floyd (with Diana Ossana)
• 1995: Dead Man's Walk, another in the Lonesome Dove series
• 1995: The Late Child—a continuation of the story begun in Desert Rose
• 1997: Comanche Moon, the last as of 2007 of the Lonesome Dove series
• 1997: Zeke and Ned (with Diana Ossana)
• 1999: Crazy Horse: A Life (biography)
• 1999: Duane's Depressed—A continuation of The Last Picture Show and Texasville story
• 1999: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
• 1999: Still Wild: A Collection of Western Stories
• 2000: Roads: Driving America's Great Highways
• 2000: Boone's Lick
• 2001: Sacagawea's Nickname—essays on the American West
• 2002: Sin Killer—The Berrybender Narratives, Book 1
• 2002: Paradise
• 2002: Johnson County War—TV mini-series
• 2003: The Wandering Hill—The Berrybender Narratives, Book 2
• 2003: By Sorrow's River—The Berrybender Narratives, Book 3
• 2004: Folly and Glory: A Novel—The Berrybender Narratives, Book 4
• 2005: Brokeback Mountain (with Diana Ossana)—Oscar-winning screenplay (adapted from the short story by E. Annie Proulx)
• 2005: The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley & the Beginnings of Superstardom in America (May)
• 2005: Oh What A Slaughter! : Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890
• 2005: Loop Group
• 2006: Telegraph Days: A Novel
• 2007: When The Light Goes—A continuation of The Last Picture Show, Texasville, and Duane's Depressed story
• 2008: Books: A Memoir
• 2009: Rhino Ranch: A Novel (Aug)—Last book of the The Last Picture Show, Texasville, Duane's Depressed, and When The Light Goes story
• 2009: Literary Life: A Second Memoir
• 2010: Boone's Lick—McMurtry will be co-writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of his 2000 novel
• 2011: Hollywood: A Third Memoir