Westerns audiobooks

Lonesome Dove

By:

Larry McMurtry

Narrated by:

Will Patton

Length:

35 hours 49 minutes

Abridged:

No

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fiction Narrator

The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness.

Journey to the dusty little town of... Read more about Lonesome Dove

The Great Work

By:

Sheldon Costa

Narrated by:

Jonathan Sleep

Length:

9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged:

No

An alchemist and his teenage nephew hunt down a legend in this profound and unsettling speculative Western, for fans of Karen Russell and Victor LaValle.

Alone in a frontier town in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest, Gentle Montgomery is grieving his best friend. Liam was an alchemist, killed when he tried to capture a creature that... Read more about The Great Work

Red Country

By:

Joe Abercrombie

Narrated by:

Steven Pacey

Length:

19 hours 52 minutes

Abridged:

No

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 about Red Country

Will's Race for Home (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)

By:

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Narrated by:

Christopher Hampton

Length:

4 hours 19 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... Read more about Will's Race for Home (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)

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... Read more about The Cold Millions

Red Rabbit

By:

Alex Grecian

Narrated by:

John Pirhalla

Length:

13 hours 5 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 about Red Rabbit

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 about Train Dreams

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 about In the Distance

The Color of Lightning

By:

Paulette Jiles

Narrated by:

Jack Garrett

Length:

13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged:

No

“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... Read more about The Color of Lightning

Fire in the Hole

By:

Elmore Leonard

Narrated by:

Taye Diggs

Length:

6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged:

No

“[Leonard’s] most satisfying book since Out of Sight….Top-notch work from one of our most gifted and consistently entertaining writers.”—New York Times Book Review“Vintage Leonard….Nine stories with booze and shotguns and lowlifes…and lots of scenes that ought to be in movies.”—Detroit Free PressOriginally published as When the Women Came Out to... Read more about Fire in the Hole

Where Coyotes Howl

By:

Sandra Dallas

Narrated by:

Stephanie Németh-Parker

Length:

9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged:

No

"...exhilarating and hard to resist." —The Washington Post on the Westering Women audiobook

"Addictive. Highly recommended!"—Paulette Jiles, New York Times bestselling author of News of the World

"Németh-Parker delivers a powerful performance, smoothly transitioning to several different characters throughout the audiobook. Her captivating... Read more about Where Coyotes Howl

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

By:

Michael Ondaatje

Narrated by:

Nathan Osgood

Length:

2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged:

No

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso... Read more about The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

News of the World

By:

Paulette Jiles

Narrated by:

Grover Gardner

Length:

6 hours 42 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... Read more about News of the World

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... Read more about Dragon Teeth

Inland

By:

Téa Obreht 

Narrated by:

Anna Chlumsky, Edoardo Ballerini & Euan Morton

Length:

13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged:

No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “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... Read more about Inland

All the Pretty Horses

By:

Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by:

Frank Muller

Length:

10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged:

No

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 about All the Pretty Horses

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 about Where the Lost Wander

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... Read more about Whiskey When We're Dry

Tom's Crossing

By:

Mark Z. Danielewski

Narrated by:

Susan Dalian

Length:

58 hours 9 minutes

Abridged:

No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of House of Leaves comes a magisterial novel about two friends determined to rescue a pair of horses set for slaughter.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Vulture, and Library Journal

“This is an amazing work of fiction. I absolutely loved it. At the heart you’ll... Read more about Tom's Crossing

Death Comes for the Archbishop

By:

Willa Cather

Narrated by:

David Ackroyd

Length:

7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged:

No

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 about Death Comes for the Archbishop

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 about Butcher’s Crossing

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 about Simon the Fiddler

Lucky Red

By:

Claudia Cravens

Narrated by:

Elena Rey

Length:

11 hours 23 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... Read more about Lucky Red

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

By:

Tom Lin

Narrated by:

Feodor Chin

Length:

9 hours 38 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 about The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu