Books Set in Alaska

Cold Light of Day

Missing In Alaska: Book #1

By: Elizabeth Goddard
Narrated by: Sara Farrington
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Police Chief Autumn Long is fighting to keep her job in the quiet Alaska town of Shadow Gap when an unexpected string of criminal activity leaves her with a wounded officer, unexplained murders, and an attack on her own father. Despite
her mistrust of outsiders, she turns to Grier Brenner, a newcomer who seems to have the skills and training... Read more

The Great Alone

A Novel

By: Kristin Hannah
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

“Kristin Hannah is a master of her craft. I found this book nearly impossible to stop listening to. Full of love, heartache, and a young woman's resilience in the face of continuous hardships. Such a wonderful read. Read more

Forty-Ninth

By: Boris Pronsky & Craig Britton
Narrated by: Roanoke
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

A novel about one of the largest land deals in history, the Alaska purchase.
In 1866, the failed assassination of Alexander II unfolds a series of events that coerces him into selling Alaska to the United States a year later. Meanwhile, Native Alaskans are stuck between the changing order. Some try to fit in while others attempt to fight back.... Read more

The Simple Wild

A Novel

By: K.A. Tucker
Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new romance from acclaimed author K.A. Tucker.

Calla Fletcher was two when her mother took her and fled the... Read more

Into the Wild

By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Philip Franklin
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for... Read more

Deadly Fate

Krewe of Hunters: Book #19

By: Heather Graham
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Alaska—the final frontier? 

When Clara Avery, an entertainer working on the Fate, an Alaskan cruise ship, goes to nearby Bear Island, she comes across a scene of bloody mayhem. She also comes across Thor Erikson, who will soon be a member of the FBI's elite paranormal unit, the Krewe of Hunters. 

Thor's been sent from the Alaska field office to... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London
Narrated by: William Roberts
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Buck is living the good life in the soft South, when he is snatched and transported to the savagery of the Northland. There, the Klondike gold rush has brought out rough basic instincts of survival in men – and dogs. He adjusts to the gruelling regime of a sled dog, which almost kills him, but he survives to find a new and fulfilling way of... Read more

Alaska Twilight

By: Colleen Coble
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

"You hide behind your camera instead of stepping out and engaging life with both hands. You're so afraid you'll fail at something, you won't even try."



For some people, Alaska is a breathtaking wilderness adventure, full of light and beauty. For Haley, it is a dangerous world of dark dreams and tortured memories. On the surface, she's here to... Read more

Touching Spirit Bear

By: Ben Mikaelsen
Narrated by: Lee Tergesen
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Within Cole Matthews lies anger, rage, and hate. Cole has been stealing and fighting for years.  This time he caught Peter Driscal in the parking lot and smashed his head against the sidewalk.  Now, Peter may have permanent brain damage–and Cole is in the biggest trouble of his life.
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Alaska

A Novel

By: James A. Michener
Narrated by: Larry McKeever
Length: 55 hours 14 minutes

The high points in the story of Alaska since the American acquisition are brought vividly to life through more than 100 characters, real and fictional. Read more

Ada Blackjack

A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

By: Jennifer Niven
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive twenty-five-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. This young, unskilled woman—who had headed to... Read more

Heroes of the Frontier

By: Dave Eggers
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

“A picaresque adventure and spiritual coming-of-age tale — On the Road crossed with Henderson the Rain King… Deeply affecting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 

Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 

A captivating, often hilarious novel of family and wilderness from the bestselling author of The Circle, this is a... Read more