David regrets having chose Westerns for this week's genre. That is, until Teresa, Diane, and Joe started questioning what exactly makes a Western a Western.

The usual suspects led to discussions of Larry McMurtry, Charles Portis, Louis L'Amour, Cormac McCarthy...but then came Elmore Leonard, John Steinbeck, and even Stephen King.

What makes a Western a Western? Join us to find out!

• Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• Done and Dusted: A Revel Blue Ranch Novel by Lyla Sage
• Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
• Buried in the Back Water by Drew Strickland
• Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard
• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
• True Grit by Charles Portis
• Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

NOTE: This one gets a little adult language-y, so keep that in mind with the littles around.