Westerns bestsellers

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

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

First Frost

Longmire Mysteries: Book #20

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

THE PAST AND FUTURE COLLIDE IN THIS GRIPPING NEW ADDITION TO THE BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING LONGMIRE SERIES

It’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War.

As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for... 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

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

Ralph Compton Blood of the Hunters

Gunfighter

By: Ralph Compton & Jeff Rovin
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

In this compelling new installment of bestseller Ralph Compton’s The Gunfighter series, a man driven bythe destruction of his family seeks to protect a woman and her children from a band of desperados.John Stockbridge was once a peaceful man of medicine. Now, he’s better known as Dr. Vengeance, a man who is asfast with a shotgun as any other... 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

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

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

“A raucous romp through a nearly lawless post-Civil War American West. Ming Tsu’s story is captivating and impossible to put down; the cast of characters is just too unique to forget or dismiss. A blood-crusted gem of a tale. Read more

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

In the Distance

By: Hernan Diaz
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

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

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

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

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

Simon the Fiddler

A Novel

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

“Texas is not a typical setting for a novel staged at the end of the Civil War and the chaotic months immediately after. A skinny fiddle player and an indentured servant are not the typical romantic western protagonists. But the story of these two, along with a host of lovable and despicable support characters, vivid descriptions of the country... 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)

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 Distant Dead

A Novel

By: Heather Young
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Jim Meskimen, Eva Kaminsky & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel * Nominated for the ITW Thriller Award for Best Young Adult NovelA BookPage Best Book of the Year * A People Magazine Best Book of Summer * A Parade Best Book of Summer * A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of Summer""Powerful...a breathtaking read, with flawed and authentic characters who hit so... Read more

The Time It Never Rained

By: Elmer Kelton
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

The Time It Never Rained helped convince the Western Writers of America to declare seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton the greatest Western writer of all time. Forged from Kelton’s 1950s observations of drought-ravaged West Texas, this compelling novel tells the story of one rancher’s struggle to maintain his independence despite the... 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

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

Fría venganza (The Cold Dish)

Longmire Mysteries: Book #1

By: Craig Johnson
Narrated by: Raul Arrieta
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Tras veinticuatro años como sheriff del condado de Absaroka, Wyoming, las esperanzas de Walt Longmire de terminar en paz sus días como agente de la ley se ven frustradas cuando Cody Pritchard aparece muerto cerca de la reserva cheyene junto a una pista muy simbólica: una pluma de águila. Dos años antes, Cody había sido uno de los cuatro chicos... 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 Farewell Tour

A Novel

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

“Carrington MacDuffie (the narrator) brings Clifford's Water Lil, a Nashville country singer by way of Walla Walla, WA to life with a perfect raspy voice and twangy sound. The story of Lillian Waters is a wild ride full of deep personal moments propelled by the evolution of country music and American history. Listening to Lillian's 'hell-bent'... Read more

Something Like Love

By: Beverly Jenkins
Narrated by: Kim Staunton
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Blackboard bestselling author Beverly Jenkins delivers another lush historical novel featuring brothers that were first introduced in her award-winning novel Always and Forever. This is the story that readers have been waiting for.He was a wanted man. But no one wanted him more than she did.Desperate to escape an arranged marriage, Olivia... Read more

Dance Hall of the Dead

Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Mysteries

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Crossing

Border (McCarthy)

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

Raylan

A Novel

By: Elmore Leonard
Narrated by: Brian D'Arcy James
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

“Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today.”
—New York Times Book ReviewWith more than forty novels to his credit and still going strong, the legendary Elmore Leonard has well earned the title, “America’s greatest crime writer” (Newsweek). And U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Pronto, Riding the Rap, Fire in... 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

Natural Born Charmer

Chicago Stars: Book #7

By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country trip to figure out what's gone wrong. When he hits... Read more

The Long Patrol

Redwall: Book #10

By: Brian Jacques
Narrated by: Brian Jacques & A Full Cast
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Brian Jacques' stories of Redwall have sparked the imaginations of innumerable readers and won the New York Times best-selling author countless fans. In The Long Patrol, Jacques delivers a wonderfully crafted tale set in his fantastical realm. The vicious Rapscallion army is threatening to batter down the walls of Redwall Abbey. But standing in... Read more

Last Stand at Saber River

By: Elmore Leonard
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

A quiet haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in Arizona since he first rode out to go fight for the Confederacy. Two brothers—Union men—have claimed his spread and they're not about to give it back, leaving Cable and his family no place to settle in peace. It seems... Read more

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Abridged

By: Ron Hansen
Narrated by: Sam Freed
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

“Recalls the literature of Americana by John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Willa Cather, and Hamlin Garland . . . Hansen has broadened our perception of the West in much the same way as the best historians . . . and proven himself one of our finest stylists of American historical fiction.” —Christian Science MonitorBestselling author Ron Hansen... 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

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

The Son

By: Philipp Meyer
Narrated by: Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd & Clifton Collins
Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

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... 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

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

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

Warlock

By: Oakley Hall
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 22 hours 5 minutes

Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a... Read more

The Color of Lightning

By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

“Meticulously researched and beautifully crafted.... This is glorious work.” — Washington Post “A gripping, deeply relevant book.” — New York Times Book Review From Paulette Jiles, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Enemy Women and Stormy Weather, comes a stirring work of fiction set on the untamed Texas frontier in... 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

Giant

A Novel

By: Edna Ferber
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

The basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, set in Texas during the first half of the twentieth century.When larger-than-life cattle rancher Jordan ""Bick"" Benedict arrives at... Read more

Cities of the Plain

Border (McCarthy)

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

In his novels, best-selling author Cormac McCarthy creates a western landscape filled with characters that are both myhic and authentic. Cities of the Plain, the stunning conclusion of his award-winning Border trilogy, brings together John Grady Cole and Billy Parham-the two lifelong friends who began their adventures in All the Pretty Horses.... 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