Westerns bestsellers

Lonesome Dove

A Novel

By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 35 hours 49 minutes

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

“A weird western set in the Pacific Northwest featuring a gigantic mythical salamander? Say no more. …Okay, I’ll say a bit more. If you’re into the surreal and meditative fringes of horror, this fever dream of a frontier tale is the book for you. Seasoned with just the right amount of every theme that goes into the messy soup of the human... 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 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

“An excellent and compelling book that touches upon the triumphs and struggles of an African American family through the eyes of Will. Will is the first person in his family to be born free, and when his father finds out about the Oklahoma Land Rush, he sees an opportunity for his son to not have to live under another form of oppression: share... Read more

Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian
Narrated by: John Pirhalla
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

“A strange and spooky combination of The Witch and True Grit, Red Rabbit is in a genre all its own. This book is bloody, brutal, and sidesplittingly funny. There are monsters, murderers, and a mysterious little girl who is much more than she appears - this plus a stolen red stagecoach equals a novel that is exhilarating, terrifying and somehow... 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 about All the Pretty Horses

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

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 about In the Distance

Fools Crow

By: James Welch
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation. "A major contibution to Native American... Read more about Fools Crow

The Color of Lightning

A Novel

By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 13 hours 34 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... Read more about The Color of Lightning

Where Coyotes Howl

By: Sandra Dallas
Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

"...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

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

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 about Train Dreams

News of the World

A Novel

By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 42 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

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

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 about Where the Lost Wander

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

Tom's Crossing

A Novel

By: Mark Z. Danielewski
Narrated by: Susan Dalian
Length: 58 hours 9 minutes

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

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

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

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

Lucky Red

A Novel

By: Claudia Cravens
Narrated by: Elena Rey
Length: 11 hours 23 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

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

By: Tom Lin
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Length: 9 hours 38 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

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 about Pony

The Crossing

Border (McCarthy): Book #2

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 14 hours 41 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 about The Crossing

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 about Death Comes for the Archbishop

Cities of the Plain

Border (McCarthy): Book #3

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 9 hours 13 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 about Cities of the Plain

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... Read more about The Power of the Dog

Sovereign

The Sovereign Mountain Series: Book #1

By: Raya Morris Edwards
Narrated by: Stefanie Kay & Oliver Clarke
Length: 10 hours 49 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 about Sovereign

Dancing and Doughnuts

Once Upon a Western

By: Rachel Kovaciny
Narrated by: Steve Corona
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

“Lighthearted, western, non-magic fairy tale. Kovaciny does a wonderful job - I loved every minute! Clean for tweens, teens and adults alike. Read more

Brokeback Mountain

By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

A standalone edition of Annie Proulx’s beloved story “Brokeback Mountain” (in the collection Close Range)—the basis for the major motion picture directed by Ang Lee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in... Read more about Brokeback Mountain

All Things Left Wild

A Novel

By: James Wade
Narrated by: Bradford Hastings
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

A powerful and lyrical debut: a botched robbery sets two men on conflicting journeys across the untamed landscape of the American West.After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the American Southwest at the turn of the twentieth century. Caleb’s... Read more about All Things Left Wild

Chenneville

A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance

By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 49 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

Fire in the Hole

Stories

By: Elmore Leonard
Narrated by: Taye Diggs
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

“[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

The Last Good Man

By: Thomas McMullan
Narrated by: Paul Tyreman
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Bloomsbury presents The Last Good Man by Thomas McMullan, read by Paul Tyreman.

'A Scarlet Letter for our times' MARGARET ATWOOD

'An extraordinary and disquieting work of imagination, and as original as any novel I’ve read in recent memory' ROB DOYLE

Duncan Peck has travelled alone to Dartmoor in search of his cousin. He has come from the city,... Read more about The Last Good Man

Montana Gundown [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

Last Gunfighter: Book #23

By: William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone
Narrated by: A Full Cast, Dylan Lynch, James Konicek, Thomas Keegan, Nick DePinto, Scott McCormick, Thomas Penny, Ken Jackson, Elizabeth Jernigan, Evan Casey, Christopher Graybill, Dan Sontagg, Yazmin Tuazon, Joe Brack, Nanette Savard, Ren Casey, Michael Glenn, Eric Messner, Johann Dettweiler & Christopher Scheeren
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Like Father. Like Son. Like Hell.

Frank Morgan has one son he knows of -- and Kid Morgan has become famous in his own right. But in Montana, Frank comes face-to-face with a young man with a deadly swagger and a stunning claim: that he's Frank's son, too. And he's here to gun his old man down.

For Frank, the first thing to do is find out if Brady... Read more about Montana Gundown [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

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 about The Strange

English Creek

Montana (Doig): Book #1

By: Ivan Doig
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 14 hours 23 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 about English Creek

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 about A Chance at Love

The Farewell Tour

A Novel

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

“A fun, fictional bio of a country superstar, like Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, making her last tour due to health issues. A moving portrait of a woman trying to break through a patriarchal industry and the pratfalls she endured. Read more

Giant

A Novel

By: Edna Ferber
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
Length: 15 hours 21 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... Read more about Giant

The Sweet Blue Distance

By: Sara Donati
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 28 hours 41 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 about The Sweet Blue Distance

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 Son

By: Philipp Meyer
Narrated by: Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd & Clifton Collins
Length: 17 hours 48 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... Read more about The Son

A Counterfeit Betrothal

Scouts of the Georgia Frontier: Book #1

By: Denise Weimer
Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

A frontier scout, a healing widow, and a desperate fight for peace. At the farthest Georgia outpost this side of hostile Creek Territory in 1813, Jared Lockridge serves his country as a scout to redeem his father's botched heritage. If he can help secure peace against Indians allied to the British, he can bring his betrothed to the home... Read more about A Counterfeit Betrothal

Down Range

A Garrett Kohl Novel

Garrett Kohl: Book #1

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

“Garret Kohl is a special forces army hero turned undercover DEA agent. But, most of all he is a Texas cowboy with a big heart who will fight for the underdog and his family even if he must stretch the law and risk not only his career but also his life. When Garrett blew his cover in Kabul and killed the insurgents who massacred an entire... 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,... Read more about Something Like Love

Surf's Up, Geronimo! / The Wild, Wild West (Geronimo Stilton #2 & #21)

Geronimo Stilton

By: Geronimo Stilton
Narrated by: Bill Lobley
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Ah, there's nothing like a relaxing vacation on the beach! I would spread out by the crystal-clear water with a good book. What more could a mouse want? At least, that was the plan. But somehow, my vacations never seem to go according to plan. Instead of a beautiful seaside resort, I found myself in a fleabag hotel that was falling down... Read more about Surf's Up, Geronimo! / The Wild, Wild West (Geronimo Stilton #2 & #21)

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 about The Long Patrol

Doc

A Novel

By: Mary Doria Russell
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 16 hours 38 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 about Doc