Westerns bestsellers

True Grit

By: Charles Portis
Narrated by: Donna Tartt
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

“Finally, I’ve succeeded in consuming the holy grail of True Grit content with the Donna Tartt-narrated audiobook! I’d seen both film renditions - the 1968 movie starring John Wayne and the Coen brothers’ 2010 interpretation - which engaged me at a very young age in a way other Westerns did not. Now, after listening to Tartt’s essay on the... Read more

Dragon Teeth

A Novel

By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: Scott Brick & Sherri Crichton
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

“I worshipped Michael Crichton. I cried for two days when he died, in part because there would be no more novels. However, after all these years, Dragon Teeth is a true surprise, and a joyful one indeed! Although he's more associated with futuristic science, Mr. Crichton was a dab hand at the historic thriller, and this novel is deeply grounded... Read more

Red in Tooth and Claw

By: Lish McBride
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

A dark young adult Western fantasy about a teen in a remote settlement full of monsters and secrets.

"In this eerie, blood-splashed Western, Lish McBride invokes a frontier that is harsh, cruel, and practical...A damned enjoyable novel." —Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns

Faolan Kelly’s grandfather is dead.... Read more

Sing Her Down

A Novel

By: Ivy Pochoda
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Sophie Amoss & Victoria Villarreal
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

This program features multicast narration.

“I read everything Ivy Pochoda writes. Her capture of the complexities, diversities, and insanities of today’s life and culture is next to none. I loved Sing Her Down. The world will too.” —Michael Connelly, author of Desert Star

No Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western... Read more

Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian
Narrated by: John Pirhalla
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

“A ragtag bunch of weirdos - an old witch hunter, a couple of cowboys, a widowed schoolteacher, and a child who doesn't speak - sets out to collect the bounty on a witch's head. Along the way, they encounter friends and enemies both natural and supernatural. The witch herself doesn't fit neatly into either category... This story meanders in the... Read more

The Cold Millions

A Novel

By: Jess Walter
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Gary Farmer, Marin Ireland, Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Mike Ortego, Rex Anderson, Charlie Thurston & Frankie Corzo
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

“The gorgeous writing, vivid setting, compelling characters, and engrossing story aren’t even the best parts of this novel. Instead, I just keep marveling at how Jess Walter takes events from history to illuminate our present while keeping them rooted in their own time, from the labor movement to class, race, and gender equality and civil rights... Read more

News of the World

A Novel

By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

“News of the World may be slight in size but it's expansive in story, scenery and characters. I found myself cheering out loud for Captain Kidd and Johanna at times and crying at others. The narration by Grover Gardener greatly added to my enjoyment of this book. He did an amazing job of capturing the characters of Captain Kidd and Johanna. Read more

Inland

A Novel

By: Téa Obreht 
Narrated by: Anna Chlumsky, Edoardo Ballerini & Euan Morton
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

“Man, I could live my whole life inside this novel and be perfectly happy. Téa Obreht is the real thing. Inland has the stern gorgeousness of Blood Meridian, the cinematic perfection of Station Eleven, the fantasia-like atmosphere of Cloud Atlas, and the deep-heartedness of The Winter Soldier. This is the sort of novel that makes people want to... Read more

Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Lee Horsley
Length: 36 hours 40 minutes

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Two retired Texas Rangers, Captains Woodrow Call and Augustus 'Gus' McCrae, lead a cattle drive from the small town of Lonesome Dove to the... Read more

Whiskey When We're Dry

By: John Larison
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

“A haunting and remarkable debut, John Larison’s Whiskey When We’re Dry stays true to the western genre while subverting many common themes of the American West, producing a wholly original narrative that will linger in your mind for days. I have never encountered a protagonist quite like Jess; she embodies the incredible strength and resolve... Read more

All the Pretty Horses

Border (McCarthy): Book #1

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils... Read more

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

By: Tom Lin
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

“Tom Lin is a fresh new voice. His novel The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu combines the grit of Cormac McCarthy with the storytelling chops of Larry McMurtry. A mysterious adventure set against the backdrop of the Central Pacific Railroad with a cast of memorable characters including a Chinese outlaw I won't soon forget. . Read more

Simon the Fiddler

A Novel

By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

“Simon Boudlin’s passion is to be the best fiddle player there is, beholden to no one and following his muse wherever it takes him. But when he meets the beautiful Doris Aherne, his plans change. Paulette Jiles once again captures the great promise and sweeping beauty of the Texas frontier in cinematic prose as poetic and lyrical as the tunes... Read more

Tooth and Claw

Longmire Mysteries

By: Craig Johnson
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

WALT LONGMIRE AND HENRY STANDING BEAR ARE BACK, AND IN THE TRADITION OF WAIT FOR SIGNS AND THE HIGHWAYMAN, THIS ACTION-PACKED NOVELLA SET IN THE ALASKA TUNDRA PUSHES OUR HEROES TO THEIR LIMITS AS THEY FACE POWERFUL ENEMIES WHO WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET WHAT THEY WANTTooth and Claw follows Walt and Henry up to Alaska as they look for work after... Read more

Down Range

A Garrett Kohl Novel

Garrett Kohl: Book #1

By: Taylor Moore
Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

“Down Range follows DEA agent Garrett Kohl back home to the Texas High Plains for a short mission to protect an Afghan boy. While home, he discovers his family is the target of a criminal organization that has infiltrated the entire town and it is up to Garrett to protect his family. Each character's personality is so unique and readers quickly... Read more

Red Country

By: Joe Abercrombie
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
Length: 19 hours 51 minutes

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

First Frost

Longmire Mysteries: Book #20

By: Craig Johnson
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

“A thrilling plot unfolds in First Frost by Craig Johnson, of course - it’s a Longmire mystery. But the true gems are the wit, strength of character and soul-filling rock solid integrity that are Walt Longmire’s lifeblood. The stoic sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming quotes literary works, has unwavering dedication to doing right and correcting... Read more

Chenneville

A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance

By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

“Union soldier John Chenneville finally returns home at the end of the Civil War after a year in hospital, only to learn his sister was killed by a stranger. He pursues the stranger thousands of miles on foot and horseback through the post-war countryside. John is a complex man you’ll grow to love. Jile’s post-war descriptions are rich and moving... Read more

The Switch

By: Elmore Leonard
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

“My favorite Leonard book….He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue.”
—Dallas Morning News“The best writer of crime fiction alive.”
—NewsweekDangerously eccentric characters, razor-sharp black humor, brilliant dialog, and suspense all rolled into... Read more

Gold Coast

By: Elmore Leonard
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

“Lean, mean, darkly funny.”
—Boston Globe “A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense.”
—Dallas Morning News“Elmore Leonard may be the greatest crime novelist in the world,” declares the Seattle Times, and truer words have never been written. Just follow the Grand Master of mystery and suspense to Florida’s Gold Coast and you’ll... Read more

The Which Way Tree

By: Elizabeth Crook
Narrated by: Will Collier
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

When a panther attacks a family of homesteaders in the remote hill country of Texas, it leaves a young girl traumatised and scarred, and her mother dead. Samantha is determined to find and kill the animal and avenge her mother, and her half-brother Benjamin, helpless to make her see sense, joins her quest. Dragged into the panther hunters’... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London
Narrated by: Kevin Theis
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Embark on an exhilarating journey into the heart of the Alaskan wilderness with "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London, now available as a gripping audiobook. In this timeless adventure tale, listeners will follow the remarkable story of Buck, a domesticated dog who is thrust into the harsh world of the Klondike Gold Rush.As the narrative... Read more

His Dark Materials: Once Upon a Time in the North

His Dark Materials

By: Philip Pullman
Narrated by: David Harewood
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

A not-to-be-missed prequel episode from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials universe.

Lee Scoresby--Texan aeronaut and future friend to Lyra Belacqua--is just 24 years old, and he's recently won his hot-air balloon in a poker game. He finds himself floating North to the windswept Arctic island of Novy Odense, where he and his hare daemon ... Read more

Where the Lost Wander

A Novel

By: Amy Harmon
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo & Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

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

Red Country

By: Joe Abercrombie
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
Length: 19 hours 52 minutes

A New York Times bestseller!
They burned her home.
They stole her brother and sister.
But vengeance is following.

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 a pair of... Read more

Dance Hall of the Dead

Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Mysteries: Book #2

By: Tony Hillerman
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 6 hours 1 minute

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

Lucky Red

A Novel

By: Claudia Cravens
Narrated by: Elena Rey
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

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

Pony

By: R. J. Palacio
Narrated by: Ian M. Hawkins & R. J. Palacio
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

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

The Farewell Tour

A Novel

By: Stephanie Clifford
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

“A fun, fictional bio of a country superstar, like Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, making her last tour due to health issues. A moving portrait of a woman trying to break through a patriarchal industry and the pratfalls she endured. Read more

The Madstone

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Crook
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee across Texas from outlaws bent on revenge, even as an unlikely love blossoms.

Texas, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach... Read more

The Crossing

Border (McCarthy): Book #2

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been... Read more

The Power of the Dog

A Novel

By: Thomas Savage & Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Chad Michael Collins & Annie Proulx
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain.

Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of... Read more

The Blinds

A Novel

By: Adam Sternbergh
Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, the Coen Brothers, and LostImagine a place populated by criminals—people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who’ve been granted new identities and a second chance. Welcome to The Blinds, a dusty town in rural Texas populated by misfits who don’t know if they’ve perpetrated a crime or... Read more

Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Willa Cather
Narrated by: David Ackroyd
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. With a new introduction by Claire Messud.

In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a... Read more

My Bold Texan

A Small Town, Best Friend's Little Sister Romance

The Bradford Brothers of Honky Tonk, Texas: Book #1

By: Dakota Lacoy
Narrated by: Jason Clarke
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

MY BOLD TEXAN: Delightful. Sparkling. Romantic.
It had been a simple request ... check on his best friend's little sister. Turned out, there was an entire protocol for handling a woman who'd just been dumped. But when this small-town cowboy arrived at Demi Lee's apartment bearing pizza, chocolate, and a chick-flick, he'd not stuck to the... Read more

The Sweet Blue Distance

By: Sara Donati
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 28 hours 40 minutes

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

Next to Last Stand

Longmire Mysteries: Book #16

By: Craig Johnson
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer’s Last Fight, copied
and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of more than a million copies a year,
was destroyed in a fire at the Seventh Cavalry headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in
1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the
Veterans’ Home of... Read more

Sleigh Bells in Valentine Valley

A Valentine Valley Novel

Valentine Valley: Book #5

By: Emma Cane
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Return to Valentine Valley, where Christmas lights are twinkling and first love burns brighter the second time around . . .When Tony De Luca's ex, Kate Fenelli, waltzes through the door of his tavern and pulls up a bar stool, she turns his balanced world on end. Once they'd been each other's first love, first everything. But then life happened,... Read more

Heresy

By: Melissa Lenhardt
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Bailey Carr, Ella Turenne, Nikki Massoud, Natalie Naudus, Imani Jade Powers & James Fouhey
Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

"An all-out women-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the Old West . . . and that's exactly what Melissa Lenhardt delivers in her unapologetically badass western, Heresy." - New York Times

"Lenhardt has created a bold new story where women have taken their rightful place in the narrative of the Outlaw Western genre; where wit,... Read more

The Which Way Tree

By: Elizabeth Crook
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

The poignant odyssey of a tenacious young girl who braves the dangers of the Texas frontier to avenge her mother's death.

Early one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther savagely attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, whose final act is to save her daughter's life. Samantha... Read more

Westin

The Sovereign Mountain Series: Book #2

By: Raya Morris Edwards
Narrated by: Hannah Chiclana & Jack Calihan
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

All Roads Lead to Sovereign Mountain Set in the rural beauty of northern Montana, Westin delves into the tumultuous love story of Westin Quinn and Diane Carter.   Diane has lived on Carter Farms for her entire life. Raised by her grandmother, she learned to be strong, smart, and independent.   But after her grandmother’s death, Diane finds... Read more

My Daring Texan

A Forced Proximity Romance

The Bradford Brothers of Honky Tonk, Texas: Book #2

By: Dakota Lacoy
Narrated by: Jason Clarke
Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

MY DARING TEXAN: Fiesty. Fun. Sparkling.  By night this rough-and-tough cowboy was a bestselling romance author. If anyone ever found out, life as he knew it would be over, for he and his brothers were legendary in Honky Tonk, Texas--known for being six-foot-gorgeous quintessential cowboys who’d migrated from ranching to small town living.  When... Read more

Land of Wolves

Longmire Mysteries: Book #15

By: Craig Johnson
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Attempting to recover from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, in Land of Wolves Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is neck deep in the investigation of what could or could not be the suicidal hanging of a shepherd. With unsettling connections to a Basque family... Read more

English Creek

Montana (Doig): Book #1

By: Ivan Doig
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

In this prize-winning portrait of a time and place—Montana in the 1930s—that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan Doig has created one of the most captivating families in American fiction, the McCaskills.The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of... Read more

Coyote Blue

By: Christopher Moore
Narrated by: James Jenner
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

From the master of subversive humor Christopher Moore comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous redemption.As a boy, he was Samson Hunts Alone—until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa... Read more

Ridgeline

A Novel

By: Michael Punke
Narrated by: Amanda Stribling, Michael Punke & Tatanka Means
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

“The American West, 1866. The setting evokes a certain image. In Ridgeline, author Michael Punke simultaneously challenges and expands that image into a fantastic work of historical fiction. Far from your average 'Cowboys and Indians' tale, Ridgeline tells the stories of natives, soldiers and settlers of all genders, to give us a complete... Read more

Lamentations

A Novel of Women Walking West

By: Carol Kammen
Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

“Historian Carol Kammen creates a moving, lyrical dramatization of the events of the first wagon train to set out for Oregon in 1842, told in the voices of the women in the company. From various backgrounds and different parts of what was then the United States, young and old, the girls and women bring us along on the long trek through unknown... Read more

Doc

A Novel

By: Mary Doria Russell
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp.... Read more

The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

A Locus Award Finalist
“Stretches the boundaries of the genre.” —The New York Times

1931, New Galveston, Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to find Silas Mundt’s gang who have stolen her mother’s voice, destroyed her father, and left her solely with a need for vengeance in this “page-turner”... Read more

These Is My Words

The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

By: Nancy E. Turner
Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon—from child to determined young adult to... Read more