Westerns audiobooks

Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Lee Horsley

Length: 36 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Abridged: No

"Impossible to put down.” —Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Get In Trouble

From bestselling author Alex Grecian comes a folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts—and where death is always just around the bend.

Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive).... Read more

First Frost

By: Craig Johnson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

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

By: Amy Harmon

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo & Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Abridged: No

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

By: Ralph Compton & Jeff Rovin

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

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

By: Jess Walter

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Gary Farmer, Marin Ireland, ...

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the most captivating novels of the year.” – Washington Post NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Library Reads Pick • An Indie Next Pick A Best Book of the Year: Bloomberg | Boston Globe | Chicago Public Library | Chicago Tribune | Esquire | Kirkus | New York Public Library | New York Times Book Review (Historical Fiction) | NPR's Fresh Air | O... Read more

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

By: Tom Lin

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

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, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime... 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

The Farewell Tour

By: Stephanie Clifford

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

AUDIOBOOK FEATURES EXCERPTS FROM FOUR ORIGINAL SONGS WRITTEN AND COMPOSED BY THE AUTHORFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise, a rich and riveting novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable woman’s rise in country and... 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 TraitorIn this action-packed debut thriller for fans of C. J. Box and Jack Carr, DEA agent Garrett Kohl fights to protect his home on the Texas High Plains when a vicious criminal enterprise comes after his familyFrom a... Read more

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... Read more

Inland

By: Téa Obreht 

Narrated by: Anna Chlumsky, Edoardo Ballerini & Euan Morton

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West” (Entertainment Weekly), from the celebrated author of The Tiger’s Wife and The Morningside
 
“Obreht’s simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West’s beauty and sudden menace.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

A BEST... Read more

Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World.  Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the... Read more

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

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

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... Read more

News of the World

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a Major Motion PictureNational Book Award Finalist—FictionIn 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... Read more

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... Read more

Talons of Eagles

By: J. A. Johnstone & William W. Johnstone

Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Solid, page-turning entertainment featuring a larger-than-life hero in MacCallister" from the greatest Western writer of the twenty-first century (Booklist).

Divided they fall . . .

Raised by the Shawnee, Jamie Ian MacCallister fought his way to manhood on an odyssey that took him from the Alamo to Colorado to the goldfields of California.... Read more

Beans, Bourbon, & Blood

By: J. A. Johnstone & William W. Johnstone

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The sight of a rotting corpse hanging from a noose is enough to stop any man in his tracks—and Luke Jensen is no exception. Sure, he could just keep riding through. He's got a prisoner to deliver, after all. But when a group of men show up with another prisoner for another hanging, Luke can't turn his back—especially when the condemned man keeps... Read more

A Good Day For A Massacre [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

"Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy “Slash” Braddock and Melvin “Pecos Kid” Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. They’ve managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employer—Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T.... Read more

The Hunted

By: Duane Boehm

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of the Gideon Johann Western Series, the Wild Horse Westerns Series, and the Hand Of Western Series comes The Hunted! On the day that ten-year-old Elijah Decker could no longer tolerate the abuse of his momma at the hands of his pa, he shoots him. His mother, Hannah, fearful for her son’s future from the law and her... Read more