Books Set in Minnesota

Ordinary Grace

By: William Kent Krueger
Narrated by: Rich Orlow
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

From "New York Times "bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961. New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Halderson's Drug Store soda counter, and "Hot Stuff "comic books were a... Read more

On the Banks of Plum Creek

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Narrated by: Cherry Jones
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek is the fourth book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers.The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. They... Read more

Murder on the Red River

The Cash Blackbear Mysteries: Book #1

By: Marcie R. Rendon
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

A murdered man in a field. The sheriff needs Cash—a twenty-something tough, smart Indian woman with special seeing powers.Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother’s wrecked car when she was three. He’s kept an eye out for her ever since. It’s a tough place to live—northern Minnesota along the Red... Read more

Betsy-Tacy

Betsy-Tacy: Book #1

By: Maud Hart Lovelace
Narrated by: Sutton Foster
Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Betsy hopes that whoever moves into the house across the street will have a little girl just her age. And the little girl who moves in is just her age. Her name is Tacy. She is very bashful, but she likes to listen to Betsy's stories—wonderful stories that the girls love, and that they keep as their own special secret. After a while, it's hard... Read more

The Latehomecomer

A Hmong Family Memoir

By: Kao Kalia Yang
Narrated by: Kao Yang
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States—all in search of a new place to call home. Decades later, their experiences remain largely unknown.

Kao Kalia Yang was driven to tell her own family’s story after her... Read more

Shiver (Shiver, Book 1)

Shiver

By: Maggie Stiefvater
Narrated by: Jenna Lamia & David Ledoux
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

“I love this series so much. It's by far one of my all-time favorite series by Maggie. I have every book she's ever written. Read more

Patty Jane's House of Curl - Abridged

By: Lorna Landvik
Narrated by: Lorna Landvik
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Gently humorous and peopled with eccentric characters, Patty Jane's House of Curl is a heartwarming, deeply satisfying experience. Read more

Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger
Narrated by: Chad Lowe
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

“An asthmatic eleven-year-old, his younger sister who writes epic Western poetry, and their miraculous father go in search of their outlaw brother, who's hiding out in the Dakota Badlands of the 1960s. A touching father/son story with a sprinkle of a coming-of-age story. It gives This is Us vibes. Read more

The Lager Queen of Minnesota

A Novel

By: J. Ryan Stradal
Narrated by: Judith Ivey
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

“The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal is a wonderful story about beer, family , resiliency and friendship—what else do you want? Sisters grow up together on a small farm in Minnesota but never quite see eye to eye. When an inequitable inheritance estranges the sisters, we learn how each makes her way through young adulthood, marriage... Read more

Freedom

A Novel

By: Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by: David Ledoux
Length: 24 hours 7 minutes

"Masterful describes not only Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel but also David Ledoux’s reading of the book . . . Ledoux gives a vibrant performance." —AudioFile Magazine

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about family.

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the... Read more

Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

When Carol Milford, a young, liberated woman from St. Paul, Minnesota, marries small-town doctor Will Kennicott, she suddenly finds herself transplanted to Gopher Prairie. Horrified by her new home, an ugly backwater community, she decides it's time the town made a few changes.The story of an idealistic young woman's frustrated attempts to... Read more

Future Home of the Living God

A Novel

By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

“Great! A very pull-you-in kind of story. Read more

History of Wolves

By: Emily Fridlund
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

"So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides!"-Aimee Bender Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their... Read more

Torch

By: Cheryl Strayed
Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

The debut novel from the internationally acclaimed author of Wild weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. • "A deeply honest novel of life after catastrophe, of intimacy lost and found." —O, The Oprah Magazine

"Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her... Read more

Lake Wobegon Days - Abridged

By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Garrison Keillor is the consummate storyteller, gifted with the rare ability, both in print and in performance, to hold an audience spellbound with his tales of ordinary people whose lives contain extraordinary moments of humor, tenderness, and grace. This exclusive recording of Garrison Keillor reading a carefully edited abridgement of the book... Read more