Westerns bestsellers

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

The Crossing

Border (McCarthy): Book #2

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

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

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

“Tom Lin is a fresh new voice. His novel The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu combines the grit of Cormac McCarthy with the storytelling chops of Larry McMurtry. A mysterious adventure set against the backdrop of the Central Pacific Railroad with a cast of memorable characters including a Chinese outlaw I won't soon forget. . Read more

Butcher’s Crossing

By: John Williams
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

“My first western and it did not disappoint! This book is simultaneously brutal and beautiful where the main character is the wilderness and the setting. It's a story of survival, ambition amidst a rapidly changing world. I think many of the themes presented in Butcher's Crossing are incredibly insightful to anyone grappling with meaning in a... Read more

Dragon Teeth

A Novel

By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: Scott Brick & Sherri Crichton
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

“I worshipped Michael Crichton. I cried for two days when he died, in part because there would be no more novels. However, after all these years, Dragon Teeth is a true surprise, and a joyful one indeed! Although he's more associated with futuristic science, Mr. Crichton was a dab hand at the historic thriller, and this novel is deeply grounded... Read more

In the Distance

By: Hernan Diaz
Narrated by: Alexander Skarsgard
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
WINNER OF THE WHITING AWARD
WINNER OF THE SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING
WINNTER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD
WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR

The first novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trust, an... 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

A Chance at Love

By: Beverly Jenkins
Narrated by: Kim Staunton
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Loreli Winters never imagined she'd end up a ""mail-order bride"" in middle-of-nowhere Kansas -- until the two adorable orphan nieces of a dusky dream named Jake Reed beg her to be their new ""mama."" And one look at the dark, devastatingly handsome man is enough to entice her to abandon her California plans and stay put for a while in this... Read more

Passin' Through (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

A Novel

Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures

By: Louis L'Amour
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Jason Culp & Dan John Miller
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!

It seemed the perfect place to lie low. The owner of the ranch was an attractive gray-haired lady who had once been an actress. The other woman was a beautiful, fragile-seeming blonde. They needed repairs done, and he needed to disappear for a... Read more

The Texas Murders

A Texas Ranger Thriller

A Texas Ranger Thriller: Book #3

By: James Patterson & Andrew Bourelle
Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

In this thrilling novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the great Texas Rangers go on a no-holds-barred pursuit of the most dangerous killer ever to terrorize Texas.  
 
Texas Ranger Rory Yates protects his home state wearing a five-pointed silver badge and carrying a Sig Sauer.  
 
When a native woman disappears on the summer... 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

Lucky Red

A Novel

By: Claudia Cravens
Narrated by: Elena Rey
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

“Newly orphaned sixteen-year-old Bridget arrives in Dodge City in 1877 and is recruited to work in the town's only brothel run by women. A queer coming-of-age story filled with friendship, first-time love, and freedom, this Western has a disarming voice. I wanted to read it again as soon as I finished it! Read more

Sovereign

The Sovereign Mountain Series: Book #1

By: Raya Morris Edwards
Narrated by: Stefanie Kay & Oliver Clarke
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

I have to have her.
I’ve been alone for so long. I never thought I would want to change that.
But when I saw her, I knew she was meant to be mine. And now that her husband is…gone, it’s time to make my move.
I’ve never felt like this about anyone. I want her everything: her body, her mind, her soul.
And I’ll do what it takes to make her my... 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

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

Inland

A Novel

By: Téa Obreht 
Narrated by: Anna Chlumsky, Edoardo Ballerini & Euan Morton
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

“Inland is a beautifully narrated by voices that are rarely heard in a story of the American west. Lurie, an immigrant from the middle east, and Nora, a pioneer wife struggling to survive, are both haunted by ghosts of their past. The dry arid desert provides a perfect backdrop for the events, relationships and challenges these two characters... Read more

All the Pretty Horses

Border (McCarthy): Book #1

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

Cities of the Plain

Border (McCarthy): Book #3

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

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

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

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

Once Upon a Time in the North

By: Philip Pullman
Narrated by: David Harewood
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

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A mesmerising episode from the universe of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust, giving us an extraordinary insight into this world and its characters.

When Lyra is studying at Oxford University, she comes across the story of Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnisson's first meeting, many years ago, along with much evidence of... Read more

Walk Me to the Distance

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Jared Zeus
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy’ – The New York Times

David Larson can never go home.

His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie husband, staunchly anti-war, won't even have the newly returned Vietnam veteran in the house. So Larson takes his chances on the road, travelling west from Georgia... 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

Down Range

A Garrett Kohl Novel

Garrett Kohl: Book #1

By: Taylor Moore
Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

“Down Range follows DEA agent Garrett Kohl back home to the Texas High Plains for a short mission to protect an Afghan boy. While home, he discovers his family is the target of a criminal organization that has infiltrated the entire town and it is up to Garrett to protect his family. Each character's personality is so unique and readers quickly... Read more

Will's Race for Home

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
Narrated by: Christopher Hampton
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

“An exciting and fun western for middle grade kids. This is centered on a Black father and son, who trek to the OK land rush. Will is so excited for this adventure, but soon learns, that the journey is filled with a lot of boredom and danger. But, it's also about self determination and having a home and owning land, leads to freedom, so soon... 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 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

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 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

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

Deacon

The Sovereign Mountain Series: Book #3

By: Raya Morris Edwards
Narrated by: Hannah Chiclana & Tor Thom
Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

All Roads Lead to Sovereign Mountain Freya Hatfield knows one thing for certain—to never, ever get tangled up with a man like Deacon Ryder. Growing up surrounded by her harsh stepfather, Aiden Hatfield, and his sons, she vowed to not to repeat the same cycle as her mother.But after leaving her home in the Appalachian Mountains to move to rural... 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

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

Train Dreams

A Novella

By: Denis Johnson
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011

From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction.

Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American... Read more

The Sweet Blue Distance

By: Sara Donati
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 28 hours 40 minutes

A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she’s fleeing in this epic tale of survival, redemption, and love from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series.1857. In a bid to outrun her past, Carrie Ballentyne accepts a nursing... Read more

Under a Painted Sky

By: Stacey Lee
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl, Stacey Lee's debut novel is a powerful story about love, friendship, and sacrifice, perfect for fans of Code Name Verity.

“This moving novel will captivate you.”—Buzzfeed.com  

All Samantha wanted was to move back to New York and pursue her music, which was difficult enough being... 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

These Thousand Hills

By: A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
Narrated by: Kevin Foley
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

These Thousand Hills continues the western epic of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s, critically acclaimed Big Sky series. This vivid American saga conjures up the world of cattle ranchers in the 1880s, focusing on a Montana community's boisterous, wanderlusting eccentrics as they chase after love and unbridled ambitions. At its center is Lat Evens, a... Read more

Tales of an 8-Bit Kitten: Lost in the Nether

An Unofficial Minecraft Adventure

By: Cube Kid
Narrated by: Michael Gallagher
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Best-selling author, Cube Kid, introduces readers to a kitten named Eeebs who lives some incredible adventures in the world of Minecraft. Fans of Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior will find some of the emblematic characters from this series in the Nether.

A Minecraft Movie opens in theaters April 4, 2025!

Eeebs isn't a very disciplined kitten. His mom... 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

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

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

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

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

The Painter

A novel

By: Peter Heller
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.

Jim Stegner has seen his share of violence and loss. Years ago he shot a man in a bar. His marriage disintegrated. He grieved the one thing he loved. In the... Read more

The Lonesome Gods (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

A Novel

Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures

By: Louis L'Amour
Narrated by: David Strathairn, Jason Culp, Dan John Miller & Oliver Wyman
Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

The classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures program—with never-before-seen material from Louis and his son, Beau L'Amour.

"I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid."

This was the boy's mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather. Johannes Verne was soon to... Read more

Valley of Shadows

A Novel

By: Rudy Ruiz
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of FictionA visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, Valley of Shadows sheds light on the dark past of injustice, isolation, and suffering along the US-Mexico border.Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in... 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

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