Saddle Up & Ride Into The Wild West On Our Favorite Western Audiobooks!
Transport yourself to the rugged, untamed landscapes of the American West with our thrilling collection of Western audiobooks. From cowboys and outlaws to saloons and showdowns, our audiobooks capture the spirit of the Wild West and take you on an unforgettable journey through its rich history and lore. Experience the thrill of high-speed chases on horseback, the suspense of duels at dawn, and the drama of life on the frontier as you immerse yourself in our selection of Western audiobooks. Expertly narrated by talented voice actors, our audiobooks bring to life iconic characters such as Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, and Calamity Jane in a way that will keep you on the edge of your seat. So saddle up and embark on a thrilling adventure with our Western audiobooks today!
Western Audiobooks Statistics
Total Audiobooks in this Category:
2,619 audiobooks
Total Authors in this Category:
2,988 authors
Average Audiobook Length:
7.17 hours
Average Audiobook Rating:
3.58/5
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Narrator: Richard Poe
Audio Length:
@1x speed 13.00 hours
@1.5x speed 8.67 hours
@2x speed 6.50 hours
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Audiobook
Author of the National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier.
His birth ended his mother’s life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he’s recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering—and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day.
“By far the most terrifying book I've ever read in that it likens the west to a maelstrom of death, violence, and pure evil. Nothing is sacred in Blood Meridian. Also, it is one of the most poetically written books I've ever read. McCarthy's depictions are eloquent beyond measure and attain full bloom in this novel.”
— Nick
Author: Charles Portis
Narrator: Donna Tartt
Audio Length:
@1x speed 6.25 hours
@1.5x speed 4.17 hours
@2x speed 3.13 hours
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True Grit Audiobook
“I just knew I was going to love this book after seeing last year's movie. They were equally wonderful, although the book's ending was far superior to the movie's. Beautifully written with a unique, speech-without-contractions cadence, this was enjoyable from beginning to end.”
— Jay
Author: Larry McMurtry, Thomas Berger
Narrator: Scott Sowers, Henry Strozier
Audio Length:
@1x speed 20.50 hours
@1.5x speed 13.67 hours
@2x speed 10.25 hours
Little Big Man Audiobook
“Superb…Berger’s success in capturing the points of view and emotional atmosphere of a vanished era is uncanny. His skill in characterization, his narrative power and his somewhat cynical humor are all outstanding.”
— New York Times
Author: Louis L’Amour
Narrator: David Strathairn
Audio Length:
@1x speed 5.75 hours
@1.5x speed 3.83 hours
@2x speed 2.88 hours
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Hondo Audiobook
“L'Amour is popular for all the right reasons. His books embody heroic virtues that seem to matter now more than ever...L'Amour falls into the grand tradition of Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson.”
— Wall Street Journal
Author: Paulette Jiles
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Audio Length:
@1x speed 6.75 hours
@1.5x speed 4.50 hours
@2x speed 3.38 hours
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News of the World: A Novel Audiobook
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
National Book Award Finalist—Fiction
In 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 boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.
In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.
Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.
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“The story of Johanna and her rescuer, Captain Kidd, is an important one of understanding, community and how quickly one may become an outsider. The whites vs Native American conflicts of the 19th century in Texas still resonate today. As Captain Kidd's seeming obligation to transport Johanna turns to loyal devotion, she in the end plays just as large a part in rescuing him. Very slow starting with exposition of characters before the action begins but well worth slogging through it. The narrator's dramatic reading enhanced the story for me.”
— Allison
Author: Elmore Leonard
Narrator: Richard Poe
Audio Length:
@1x speed 4.25 hours
@1.5x speed 2.83 hours
@2x speed 2.13 hours
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Hombre Audiobook
Grand Master Elmore Leonard is justifiably acknowledged as “the best writer of crime fiction alive” (Newsweek)—and, in fact, one of the very best ever, alongside other all-time greats like John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker. But he has also many acclaimed masterworks of American western fiction to his credit—including Hombre, the basis for the classic Hollywood motion picture starring Paul Newman. Set in Arizona mining country, Hombre is the tale of a white man raised by Indians, who must come to the aid of people who hate him when their stagecoach is attacked by outlaws. As thrilling as his contemporary novels of crime, double-cross, and murder in Detroit and Miami, Hombre is Elmore Leonard at his riveting best—no less than one would expect from the creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Justified).
“Narrator Richard Poe’s steady, resonant tone; subtle accents; and superb timing bring out the sagebrush and tumbleweeds in this Western classic. The genre-busting story, heavy on action and social justice…may seem familiar, but the combination of Leonard’s naturalistic writing style and Poe’s baritone voice makes this a gripping listen…It’s surprising no one has produced this title as an audiobook before now. Poe’s reading makes up for the wait.”
— AudioFile
Author: Michael Punke
Narrator: Holter Graham
Audio Length:
@1x speed 9.25 hours
@1.5x speed 6.17 hours
@2x speed 4.63 hours
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The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge Audiobook
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.
“A superb revenge story...Punke has added considerably to our understanding of human endurance and of the men who pushed west in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark--a significant feat.”
— The Washington Post Book World
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Audio Length:
@1x speed 16.50 hours
@1.5x speed 11.00 hours
@2x speed 8.25 hours
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Doc: A Novel Audiobook
“Who would think Mary Doria Russell could write such a beautiful portrait of hardened Wild West characters like Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp? She says more of the portrait is true than you might think, and I hope so because of how much I liked these heartbreaking characters.”
— Barb
Author: Patrick deWitt
Narrator: John Pruden
Audio Length:
@1x speed 7.75 hours
@1.5x speed 5.17 hours
@2x speed 3.88 hours
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The Sisters Brothers: A Novel Audiobook
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX
A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly • Amazon • Hudson Booksellers • Washington Post
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn’t share his brother’s appetite for whiskey and killing, he’s never known anything else. But their prey isn’t an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm’s gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living-and whom he does it for.
With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters-losers, cheaters, and ne’er-do-wells from all stripes of life-and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.
“I will admit that I only chose this book because of the cover and the fact that it was shortlisted for the Booker prize. However, I couldn't stop reading it! It was funny, witty, and threw me into the world of the Wild West which is not typical of the books I choose. You really come to like the "bad guys" in the book, and I enjoyed that. The ending was also perfect!”
— Merissa
Author: Robert B. Parker
Narrator: Titus Welliver
Audio Length:
@1x speed 5.00 hours
@1.5x speed 3.33 hours
@2x speed 2.50 hours
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Appaloosa Audiobook
“My sister recommended these books a long time ago (she's responsible for introducing me to the Spencer series many years ago). They have been on my shelf for a month or so, wasn't sure I would like a western. Robert B. Parker's wry writing style from his detective novels carries over to this genre. The third adventure of Hitch and Cole is on the pile, last book about to be picked up at DPL. So sad that there will be no more books from Mr. Parker :(”
— Bethe
Author: Louis L’Amour
Narrator: David Strathairn
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@1x speed 3.75 hours
@1.5x speed 2.50 hours
@2x speed 1.88 hours
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Sackett: A Novel Audiobook
“Louis L'Amour has held my attention since the very first book I read. As you read through you can see the scenery that he writes about. You can see the act play out in front of you.”
— Richard
Author: Annie Proulx
Narrator: Frances Fisher, Bruce Greenwood, Campbell Scott, Francis Fisher
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@1x speed 5.50 hours
@1.5x speed 3.67 hours
@2x speed 2.75 hours
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories Audiobook
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below," a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer," an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home. In "Brokeback Mountain," the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's violent intolerance.
These are stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes—confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty—with the more benign values of the new west.
Stories in Close Range have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ. They have been selected for the O. Henry Stories 1998 and The Best American Short Stories of the Century and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft.
“I had this book on my shelf during my whole first year of law school. Worth the wait! Annie's stories are dark and dense, but full of beautiful flourishes. Just love her. And her take on wild Wyoming.”
— Alisa