Cormac McCarthy · trilogy
The Border Trilogy books in order
A trilogy of novels comprising All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain, following intertwined lives across the American Southwest and Mexico.
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Publication order
- 1 All the Pretty Horses
Book 1 · novel · 1992
The first volume in the Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two…
- 2 The Crossing
Book 2 · novel · 1994
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more…
- 3 Cities of the Plain
Book 3 · novel · 1998
The conclusion of the Border trilogy describes the friendship of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys working on a New Mexico ranch in the 1950s
