no particular order
the list changes regularly.

1. Flint
2.The Daybreakers
3.Sackett
4.Conagher
5. Shalako
6.The Sackett Brand
7.The Man From Broken Hills
8.Comstock Lode
9.Hondo
10.Crossfire Trail

Tough one, LD. I left some really good ones out, as I'm sure you did too.

" The only time a man should be dancing is when other men are shooting at his feet. "

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die dogs--I was a man before I was a king!
---From The Road of Kings

1. Westward the Tide
2. Flint
3. To Tame a Land
4. Last Stand at Papago Wells
5. Sackett
6. The Daybreakers
7. Sacketts Brand
8. Hondo
9. Down the Long Hills
10. Conagher

5 honorable mentions.

11. Kilkenny
12. Comstock Lode
13. Bendigo Shafter
14. The Lonesome Gods
15. Sitka

TOM

Tennessee Dave

no particular order
the list changes regularly.

peter

Here is my list of favorites:

Passin' Through
Ride the Dark Trail
The Proving Trail
Over on the Dry Side
Mustang Man
The Tall Stranger
The Key-Lock Man
Guns of the Timberlands
North to the Rails
Tucker

As I mentioned I could have easily bumped that list out by another 5.

That being said, enjoyable reads are not necessarily L'Amour at his finest, IMO.

I think Louis L'Amour's three finest books are:

Sackett’s Land
The Burning Hills
Reilly's Luck

they are not my favorites per sey, but they are excellent in their category/theme.

I'll probably break this out into another thread at some point but I think he wrote five distinct themes in terms of western fiction.

1) The quintessential loner
2) Group cooperation stories
3) The historiography
4) Coming of age stories
5) Pure entertainment/Yarns/tales (mostly the short stories)

I almost included Hondo and How the West was Won but I am not sure how much L'Amour is really in those. They do not strike true to me.

Oh, well. Here's my list:

1) Sackett's Land
2) The Daybreakers
3) Jubal Sackett
4) Sackett
5) The Sackett Brand
6) The Lonesome Gods
7) Comstock Lode
8) Flint
9) North to the Rails
9) Crossfire Trail
10) Fair Blows the Wind

Explorer

A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves

1.To Tame A Land
2.Flint
3.Reilly's Luck
4.Bendigo Shafter
5.Mustang Man
6.The Sackett Brand
7.Under The Sweetwater Rim
8.Last of The Breed
9.The Warrior's Path
10.The First Fast Draw

I purchased the hardback "Collected Short Stories" as they became available and especially enjoy reading the Frontier stories. In my opinion, LL was a natural for that genre. I have found very few Western Stories by other authors which strike a level of realism for me that is close to that of LL.

"Lonesome Dove" by McMurtry comes close as do a couple of stories by Matt Braun. Most of the current Western genre writers cannot hold my attention for a full length story but I continue to read and re-read LL's Western stories over and over---I almost know them by heart.

LRJ

List is subject to change, haha