9 Top audiobook books like The Son by Philipp Meyer

The Son

By: Philipp Meyer

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of pow…

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Cover of Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3) by Larry McMurtry

1. Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)

By: Larry McMurtry

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I’m not a chicken, Corporal Call,"

-Larry McMurtry, Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)

Cover of Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4) by Larry McMurtry

2. Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

By: Larry McMurtry

4.12

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comanche Moon… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long."

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"I've just served five years in a great war —the only struggle that still interests me is the conflict with the sentence, sir—the English sentence."

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"The thing that Buffalo Hump was most grateful for, as he rode into the emptiness, was the knowledge that in the years of his youth and manhood he had drawn the lifeblood of so many enemies. He had be…"

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"Buffalo Hump wanted to see the ocean because the ocean would always be as it was. Few things could stay forever in the way they were when the spirits made them. Even the great plains of grass, the ho…"

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

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3. The Revenant

By: Michael Punke

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already. Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers o… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Le géant poussa un dernier soupir et mourut à la clarté des étoiles de la plaine."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"Il pouvait monter là-haut s'il le voulait. Monter et toucher l'horizon, sauter par-dessus et découvrir l'horizon suivant"

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

4. The Son

By: Philipp Meyer

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of pow… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

5. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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6. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

7. Horseman, Pass By

By: Larry McMurtry

4.30

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LonesomeDovecomes the novel that became the basis for the… read more

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8. Butcher's Crossing

By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more

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9. The Sisters Brothers

By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more

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10. Streets of Laredo

By: Larry McMurtry

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Loneso… read more

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11. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • audiobook
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

12. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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13. Father and Son

By: Larry Brown

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This classic story of good and evil takes place in the rural American South of 1968. After being re… read more

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14. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of His Forefathers and Mick by Michael G. Kramer

15. His Forefathers and Mick

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.36

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

"His forefathers and Mick", traces the riveting saga of the Kramer family across three tumultuous g… read more

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  • novels
"Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has  been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!"

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

"Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern."

-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

Cover of Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  Ritz

16. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

By: K. Ritz

4.33

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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17. Isabella Warrior Queen

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.30

Format: None pages, ebook

The complete story of Isabella, her husband King Edward II, their son who was King Edward III and t… read more

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  • historical
"Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

"Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

"When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

"On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of a…"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

Cover of Victor's Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer

18. Victor's Blessing

By: Barbara Sontheimer

4.34

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Then wake up my sweet,  wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid.  Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her.  He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go.  "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me!  What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

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19. The Daily Dad

By: Ryan Holiday

4.55

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

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20. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Dust Off the Bones (Billy McBride, #2) by Paul Howarth

21. Dust Off the Bones (Billy McBride, #2)

By: Paul Howarth

4.31

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of the acclaimed Only Killers and Thieves returns to turn-of-the-century Australia in th… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

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Larry McMurtry

4.03

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Larry McMurtry

4.12

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Michael Punke

3.96

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Philipp Meyer

4.12

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Provinces of Night

William Gay

3.64

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Philipp Meyer

4.12

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Don Winslow

4.42

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Brian Panowich

4.16

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