Westerns audiobooks

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

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

Butcher’s Crossing

By: John Williams

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of... Read more

Dragon Teeth

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Scott Brick & Sherri Crichton

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel—a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns... Read more

The Crossing

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

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

In the Distance

By: Hernan Diaz

Narrated by: Alexander Skarsgard

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

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 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

Will's Race for Home

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

Narrated by: Christopher Hampton

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes goes West in this thrilling adventure story about a son and his father who set out to win land during the Oklahoma Land Rush–if they can survive the journey.  
 
It’s 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a young Black family is tired of working on land... 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

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

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

Dancing and Doughnuts

By: Rachel Kovaciny

Narrated by: Steve Corona

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fifty dollars just for asking a few questions? Jedediah Jones figures it must be his lucky day. What dancing and doughnuts have to do with anything, he neither knows nor cares. He’s only interested in earning that money so he can finally eat something other than the apples he's been living off for days. Once his stomach and his pockets are... 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

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

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

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

Lucky Red

By: Claudia Cravens

Narrated by: Elena Rey

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

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

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

Guns in Wyoming

By: Lauran Paine

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wyoming territory is vast, rich with grasslands, and largely lawless. So when a conflict arises over whose herd gets to graze in those grasslands, then it’s more likely to be settled with a shootout than a lawyer.The cattlemen believed their cows ought to have free grazing. It had been a long winter and the herd was hungry. But that means... Read more

Bitter Trail

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico.

Sounds like a peaceable enterprise?

The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold--gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.

And, added to... Read more

Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

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 Treasure of Cedar Creek

By: Brenda Stanley

Narrated by: Brenda Stanley

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1896, the isolated and vast state of Idaho is a haven for the polygamous splinter group called The Kingdom of Glory, which is hiding more than their outlawed practice of plural marriage. At the compound called Cedar Creek, the prophet is hoping to increase his congregation, even if that means marrying off girls to men decades older. When... Read more

American Medieval

By: Hock Hochheim

Narrated by: Hock Hochheim

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

GUNTHER RIDES AGAINA young Johann Gunther becomes a Lawman in Paris, Texas. Then he joins the army, fights in Cuba, The Philippines, and China. But 23 years later he must return to Paris, Texas yet again and fight an international gang war, vendetta, and save his old French police chief while attempting to save the whole city from a fiery... Read more