This Pulitzer Prize winning western novel has some of the best character writing I've ever read. It's a fairly simple story about a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, focusing on the colorful people involved. The book reads to me like a 1000-page criticism of toxic masculinity, and a lament for lost wilderness from the perspective of people who aren't good at examining why it has been lost. Though I'm not sure the popular fanbase of this book would agree.