Westerns audiobooks

Inland

By: Téa Obreht 
Narrated by: Anna Chlumsky, Edoardo Ballerini & Euan Morton
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife returns with “a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West” (Entertainment Weekly).

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping • Town & Country • The... Read more »

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 »

In the Distance

By: Hernan Diaz
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend.... Read more »

Fire Season

By: Leyna Krow
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

"Devilishly funny and endlessly inventive." —Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author Beautiful Ruins

"This story is darkly funny, deliciously devious and hugely inventive, a magical twist on the allure of the American West and who goes there to seek their fortune." —Good... Read more »

Dance Hall of the Dead

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

All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone

By: John J. Jacobson
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone is the rollicking adventure story of Lincoln Smith, a young Texan living at the beginning of the twentieth century, who thinks of himself as the last true cowboy. He longs for the days of the Old West, when men like his father, a famous Texas Ranger, lived by the chivalric code. Lincoln finds himself hopelessly out of...

The Cold Millions

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
Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book by: The New York Times Book Review * Wall Street Journal * Time * Esquire * The Millions * Vogue * People * New York Post * USA Today * Medium * The Philadelphia Inquirer * Newsday

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins comes another “literary miracle” (NPR)—a propulsive, richly entertaining novel...

News of the World

By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture

National Book Award Finalist—Fiction

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the...

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

By: Tom Lin
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award

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,...

The Son

By: Philipp Meyer
Narrated by: Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd & Clifton Collins
Length: 17 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

Soon to be a TV Series on AMC starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer.

The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood, and power that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the 20th century.

Part epic of Texas, part classic...

All the Pretty Horses

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

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 »

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 »

River of Teeth

By: Sarah Gailey
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 4 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

In the early twentieth century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true.

Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two.

This was a terrible... Read more »

The Bartender's Tale

By: Ivan Doig
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

Time and again, Ivan Doig has proven himself to be a treasure of American letters. Critical darlings and New York Times bestsellers, his novels target the heart of the human experience- and never miss the mark. The Bartender's Tale stars Tom Harry and his son Rusty, who live alone and run a bar in a small Montana town in the early 1960s. Their... Read more »

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 Traitor

DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl must rescue a CIA officer after she’s kidnapped in Texas by a nefarious band of criminals in this pulse-pounding thriller for fans of C. J. Box

Special Agent Garrett Kohl has just...

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...

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 »

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...

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...

Settling His Hash

By: J. A. Johnstone & William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: TBA
Abridged: No

A chuckwagon cook who's also deadly with a pair of six-shooters, Dewey "Mac" Mackenzie is a man who has no qualms filling men's bellies with food—or lead. Finally cleared of a crime he didn't commit, he's able to enjoy the fruits of his labor on the trail without looking over his shoulder. But even his best served grub can be spoiled by those... Read more »

The Natural

By: Dusty Richards
Narrated by: Justin Price
Length: TBA
Abridged: No

There's a lot of tough competition in the rodeo arena—from the man behind the microphone to the cowboys and cowgirls that ride, rope, and climb on the bucking stock. The Natural puts you in the boots of famed rodeo announcer Brad Turner, racing his horse Golden Boy into the arena and welcoming the crowd to a pro rodeo performance in Jackson,... Read more »

To the Gates of Hell

By: David Nix
Narrated by: David Bendena
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No

Since reluctantly accepting the marshal's job at South Pass City, Jake's life has become an unending run of solving other people's problems. When outlaw boss Dutch van Zandt and his ruthless band mount a campaign of mayhem in Jake's corner of the Wyoming Territory, Jake learns that Lucien Ashley, his persistent adversary, might be aiding the... Read more »

Red Ruckus

By: Brett Cogburn
Narrated by: Bradford Hastings
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

Two-time Spur Award winner Brett Cogburn brings back the true grit and glory of the Wild West with his third post-Civil War thriller featuring New York City policeman-turned M&K Railroad lawman Morgan Clyde …

Morgan Clyde, former New York City peacekeeper and Union army veteran, is a man of righteous words and a gunfighter of uncanny skill....