Westerns audiobooks


True Grit
By: Charles Portis
Narrated by: Donna Tartt
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie -- as vital as she is innocent --... Read more
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Will's Race for Home
By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
Narrated by: Christopher Hampton
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes goes West in this thrilling adventure story about a son and his father who set out to win land during the Oklahoma Land Rush–if they can survive the journey.
It’s 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a young Black family is tired of working on land... Read more


Ridgeline
By: Michael Punke
Narrated by: Amanda Stribling, Michael Punke & Tatanka Means
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes supplemental material read by the author.
The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant
In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier—a clash of cultures between a young, ambitious nation and the Native tribes who have... Read more


Red Country
By: Joe Abercrombie
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
Length: 19 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. Their journey will... Read more
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Where the Lost Wander
By: Amy Harmon
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo & Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss.The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant... Read more
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Dance Hall of the Dead
By: Tony Hillerman
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young ZuNi. But his investigation into a... Read more
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The Sweet Blue Distance
By: Sara Donati
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 28 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she’s fleeing in this epic tale of survival, redemption, and love from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series.1857. In a bid to outrun her past, Carrie Ballentyne accepts a nursing... Read more
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Red Rabbit
By: Alex Grecian
Narrated by: John Pirhalla
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
"Impossible to put down.” —Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Get In Trouble
From bestselling author Alex Grecian comes a folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts—and where death is always just around the bend.
Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive).... Read more


The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
By: Tom Lin
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from "an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem). Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime... Read more
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Down Range
By: Taylor Moore
Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“A riveting thriller with a family in crisis at the core. It's my kind of book.” —Brad Taylor, bestselling author of American TraitorIn this action-packed debut thriller for fans of C. J. Box and Jack Carr, DEA agent Garrett Kohl fights to protect his home on the Texas High Plains when a vicious criminal enterprise comes after his familyFrom a... Read more
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The Farewell Tour
By: Stephanie Clifford
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
AUDIOBOOK FEATURES EXCERPTS FROM FOUR ORIGINAL SONGS WRITTEN AND COMPOSED BY THE AUTHORFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise, a rich and riveting novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable woman’s rise in country and... Read more
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Simon the Fiddler
By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who steals his heart.In March 1865, the long... Read more
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Inland
By: Téa Obreht
Narrated by: Anna Chlumsky, Edoardo Ballerini & Euan Morton
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West” (Entertainment Weekly), from the celebrated author of The Tiger’s Wife and The Morningside
“Obreht’s simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West’s beauty and sudden menace.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
A BEST... Read more


Lucky Red
By: Claudia Cravens
Narrated by: Elena Rey
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A thrilling, raucous, and gloriously queer debut about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck in the American West—and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way, now in paperback.
“A powerful feminist battle cry . . . [and] rollicking good fun.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
LONGLISTED FOR THE VCU... Read more


Lamentations
By: Carol Kammen
Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Lamentations is a novel about the first group of families crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written record of her journey, the company clerk's daily notations provided documentation of historical events. Based on these records and the author's own decades of... Read more
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Pony
By: R. J. Palacio
Narrated by: Ian M. Hawkins & R. J. Palacio
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Perfection.” –The Wall Street Journal
The bestselling author of Wonder returns with an enthralling adventure about a boy on a quest to rescue his father, with only a ghost as his companion and a mysterious pony as his guide.... Read more


Dragon Teeth
By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: Scott Brick & Sherri Crichton
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel—a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns... Read more
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First Frost
By: Craig Johnson
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
THE PAST AND FUTURE COLLIDE IN THIS GRIPPING NEW ADDITION TO THE BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING LONGMIRE SERIES
It’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War.
As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for... Read more


Whiskey When We're Dry
By: John Larison
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Goodreads, Southern Living, Outside Magazine, Oprah.com, HelloGiggles, Parade, Fodor’s Travel, Sioux City Journal, Read it Forward, Medium.com, and NPR’s All Things Considered.
"A thunderclap of originality, here is a fresh voice and fresh take on one of the oldest stories we tell about... Read more


The Vengeance of Mothers
By: Jim Fergus
Narrated by: Laura Hicks & Erik Steele
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Narrator Laura Hicks] captures the compelling emotions of these desperate women as they escape their former lives of hardship and dare to dream of a freedom they haven't yet known." — Booklist, starred review
The stunning sequel to Jim Fergus' award-winning One Thousand White Women.
9 March 1876
My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil... Read more


Dancing and Doughnuts
By: Rachel Kovaciny
Narrated by: Steve Corona
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
"Fifty dollars just for asking a few questions? Jedediah Jones figures it must be his lucky day. What dancing and doughnuts have to do with anything, he neither knows nor cares. He’s only interested in earning that money so he can finally eat something other than the apples he's been living off for days. Once his stomach and his pockets are... Read more
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Chenneville
By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World. Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the... Read more
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The Cold Millions
By: Jess Walter
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Gary Farmer, Marin Ireland, ...
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
“One of the most captivating novels of the year.” – Washington Post NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Library Reads Pick • An Indie Next Pick A Best Book of the Year: Bloomberg | Boston Globe | Chicago Public Library | Chicago Tribune | Esquire | Kirkus | New York Public Library | New York Times Book Review (Historical Fiction) | NPR's Fresh Air | O... Read more
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Butcher’s Crossing
By: John Williams
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of... Read more
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