Books Set in Colorado

Plainsong

By: Kent Haruf
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

National Book Award Finalist

A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.

In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since... Read more

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The Shining

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

“The book is so well written and grasps you the whole way through. I very much enjoyed reading this, and the ending is wonderfully brilliant. King does a great job writing suspenseful storylines. Read more

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Centennial

A Novel

By: James A. Michener
Narrated by: Larry McKeever
Length: 50 hours 5 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested through its people: Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his... Read more

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Nothing Daunted

The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

A Historical Memoir

By: Dorothy Wickenden
Narrated by: Margaret Nichols & Dorothy Wickenden
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

From the author of The Agitators, the acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to “rough it” as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916.

In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their... Read more

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All Rhodes Lead Here

A Novel

By: Mariana Zapata
Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi & Sebastian York
Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

New York Times bestselling author and the Queen of Slow Burn Romance Mariana Zapata’s fan favorite All Rhodes Lead Here, a story about finding love when you least expect it—now with new exclusive content!The people we lose take a part of us with them…but they leave a part of themselves with us too.Aurora De La Torre, or Ora to her friends, knows... Read more

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Angle of Repose

Modern Classic

By: Wallace Stegner
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 22 hours 10 minutes

Wallace Stegner’s uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian, who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the... Read more

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Ill Wind

Anna Pigeon

By: Nevada Barr
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Separated from friends and family and haunted by personal demons, park ranger Anna Pigeon finds solace in the quiet ruins of the Anasazi civilization of Colorado's Mesa Verde. But the rugged beauty of the park and the mystery of the Anasazi are cruelly overshadowed by danger and death. Lately, visitors to Mesa Verde have been bringing home more... Read more

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Hard Truth

Anna Pigeon Mysteries: Book #13

By: Nevada Barr
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Just days after marrying Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park. When two of three children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear, Anna's investigation brings her face-to-face with a paranoid sect--and with a villain so evil, he'll make the... Read more

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On the Road: the Original Scroll

Penguin Audio Classics

By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: John Ventimiglia
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it
 
“The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
During three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of On the Road—typed as a long,... Read more

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Cry Father

By: Benjamin Whitmer
Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Larry Brown comes a haunting story about men, their fathers, their sons, and the legacy of violence. For Patterson Wells, disaster is the norm. Working alongside dangerous, desperate, itinerant men as a tree clearer in disaster zones, he's still dealing with the loss of his young son. Writing letters to... Read more

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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

A Novel

By: Matthew Sullivan
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

“Still reeling from witnessing a tragic event many years ago, Lydia is thrown headfirst into yet another tragedy after one of her favorite bookshop patrons commits suicide in the store and mysteriously leaves all his possessions to her. As Lydia follows the thread that he leaves her, she finds out more about him, her town, and even her own past.... Read more

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