Short Stories bestsellers

Stag Dance

A Novel & Stories

By: Torrey Peters
Narrated by: Lee Osorio, Briggon Snow, Eileen Noonan & Pyrrha Nicole
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

“Oof. A book hasn't left me this speechless in a while. Torrey Peters (Author of Detransition, Baby) has a way of conveying stories with such authentic vulnerability. This one, a collection of short stories (that I wish were longer) and one novella explores themes of gender, identity, sexuality, and the trans experience. Drenched in beauty,... Read more

"5-Minute Ada Twist, Scientist Stories"

The Questioneers

By: Gabrielle Meyer
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

"Revisit some of your favorite episodes of the Netflix series in audio for the first time with this storybook collection. Each of the twelve stories retells a beloved episode from the show, making it perfect for when it’s time to settle down for bed or spend some time away from screens." Read more

Table for Two

Fictions

By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & J. Smith-Cameron
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

“I like very few short story collections. I can literally count them on one hand. This maybe completes the hand, as the fifth. And honestly I think it's because Towles is SUCH a talented writer. I bookmarked numerous places in my audiobook that I want to transfer to my print copy because I loved how he wrote something and want to be able to look... Read more

The Anne of Green Gables Collection

Anne Shirley Books 1-6 and Avonlea Short Stories

Anne of Green Gables

By: L. M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Susie Berneis, Tara Ward, Barbara Barnes & Kate Handford
Length: 73 hours 17 minutes

Fans of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Shirley rejoice! Collected here are all eight of the original Anne Shirley books in the order they were published. This collection includes Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Chronicles of Avonlea, and Further Chronicles of Avonlea.... Read more

Show Don't Tell

Stories

By: Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Curtis Sittenfeld, George Newbern, Xe Sands, Emily Rankin, Nicole Lewis & Kristen Sieh
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic Comedy “blends acerbic wit, shrewd insight and sharp-eyed observation [in this] bravura collection” (The Washington Post), including a story that revisits the main character from her iconic novel Prep

“Each of these witty, intelligent stories is a slice of modern life.”—People

A... Read more

Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #38

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne, Isla Blair & Simon Vance
Length: 35 hours 4 minutes

At last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie's most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century—and, in his own humble opinion, is ""probably the... Read more

The Hodgeheg and Other Stories

By: Dick King-Smith
Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Brought to you by Puffin.

This wonderfully funny audio collection contains eight adventures from the master of animal tales, Dick King-Smith.

Perfect for young listeners, this magical collection features one of Dick King-Smith's most-loved stories: The Hodgeheg.

Max is a hedgehog who lives with his family in a nice little home, but it's on the... Read more

The History of Sound

Stories

By: Ben Shattuck
Narrated by: Ben Shattuck, Zachary Chastain, Paul Mescal, Dion Graham, Ellen Adair, Steven Jay Cohen, Jim Seybert, Dawn Harvey, Chris Cooper, Rebecca Lowman, Jenny Slate, Ed Helms & Nick Offerman
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

“I LOVED this immersive and interconnected book of New England stories, and the all-star cast takes it to another level. Chris Cooper reading the title story will have you weeping. Read more

James Herriot's Treasury for Children

Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small

By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Jim Dale
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Children have always found a delightful friend in James Herriot. His award-winning stories for young readers bring the farmyard world of Herriot's Yorkshire to vibrant life. Featuring a host of adorable animals and colorful townsfolk, each of the stories is narrated by the country vet himself, with all of the warmth, caring, and good humor that... Read more

Exhalation

Stories

By: Ted Chiang
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon & Ted Chiang
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

“A spectacular collection, with too many standout stories for me to pick a favorite. The title story is perhaps the best exploration I've ever read of the nature of consciousness and the search for meaning. Chiang's writing is at once dizzyingly cerebral and profoundly heartbreaking, rooted in an unrestrained passion for scientific speculation... Read more

Brief Cases

Dresden Files

By: Jim Butcher
Narrated by: James Marsters, Jim Butcher, Cassandra Campbell, Julia Whelan & Oliver Wyman
Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City's favorite wizard.

The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue--and creatures of all supernatural stripes. And you'll make their intimate acquaintance as Harry delves into the dark side of truth,... Read more

Murder in Mesopotamia

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #13

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Anna Massey
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigates Murder in Mesopotamia, a classic murder mystery from Agatha Christie.Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a... Read more

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong & Renée Elise Goldsberry
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

“In this literal master class on literature and writing, Saunders earnestly yet playfully dissects 19th-century Russian short stories to discover how they exude life to this very day, while highlighting methods any aspiring writer can employ. The huge bonus: reading the wondrous stories themselves, and experiencing Tolstoy’s authority, Chekhov’s... Read more

Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

“The twelve stories intersect creating more of a novel than a set of separate stories. I love the characters--Paige, Frick, Fellis, grandmother, mom, Tyson, and JP, all of them doing the best they can under the circumstances. I think what I love most is that the stories are told without judgment or snark but with compassion and understanding.... Read more

The World’s Worst Monsters

By: David Walliams
Narrated by: David Walliams, Harriet Carmichael, Sophia Eleni, James Goode, Pui Fan Lee, Paul Panting, Carlyss Peer & Tania Rodrigues
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Dare you enter the world of MONSTERS? The beloved World’s Worst series has captivated millions of readers. You’ve met the world’s worst children, the world’s worst parents, the world’s worst teachers and the world’s worst pets – but are you ready for the world’s worst monsters? If you don’t... Read more

Stories for Easter

By: Enid Blyton
Narrated by: Mitra Djalili
Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

A collection of short Easter stories perfect for children from the world's best-loved storyteller!


Go on Easter adventures to imagine the biggest chocolate egg ever, discover a lamb who took a ride in a pram and help a rabbit on a very windy day. All these and more in this springtime collection of short stories from Enid Blyton. Perfect for... Read more

Waiting for the Long Night Moon

Stories

By: Amanda Peters
Narrated by: Ussani Taylor & Megan Tooley
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

“A powerful collection of short fiction that gives voice to the Indigenous experience over time and place. They reveal the unbroken spirit and resilient power to endure while also shedding light on the cruelty, racism, violence and displacement they have and continue to experience. Beautiful storytelling. Read more

Galatea

By: Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Ruth Wilson
Length: 46 minutes

“Now officially published in this beautiful pocket-size gift edition, Madeline Miller’s retelling of Pygmalion (or My Fair Lady) myth is the perfect feminist sucker punch of a story to read in one sitting but continue thinking of long after. Read more

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

A Miss Marple Collection

Miss Marple Mysteries: Book #13

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Miss Marple: The Complete Story Collection gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It’s an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest short form fiction in the crime fiction field, and is... Read more

You Think It, I'll Say It

Stories

By: Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrated by: Emily Rankin & Mark Deakins
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

“No one does a better job of writing about the high and low points of contemporary relationships than Curtis Sittenfeld. Her characters are petty, flawed, tender, funny, and completely believable. The characters in You Think It, I'll Say It do not shy away from assuming they know those around them, making the twist when their misjudgments are... Read more

The Lonesome Bodybuilder

Stories

By: Yukiko Motoya
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, Erin Bennett, Richard Powers, Tanya Eby, Kate Mulligan & various narrators
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

“Yukiko Motoya takes the mundane and brilliantly spikes it with the fantastical, the aberrant, and the all-out unexpected. These stories tilt the axis of reality by degrees, deftly inverting scenes of both solitude and cohabitation, pitting the personal against the domestic. Amid increasingly splashy motifs, The Lonesome Bodybuilder asks how we... Read more

Disruptions

Stories

By: Steven Millhauser
Narrated by: Gisela Chípe, Vas Eli & Arthur Morey
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

“Disruptions was a wild surprise, and definitely my favorite short story collection of the year. The collection is worth the price of admission for the first story alone. Millhauser has an incredible way of capturing the very small, unvoiced dreams and anxieties that percolate just under the surface of everyday life. Very subtle, very humane... Read more

A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett
Narrated by: Casey Plett
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

A new edition of the acclaimed debut story collection by two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Plett. From the author of Little Fish (Amazon First Novel Award Winner, 2019) and A Dream of a Woman comes eleven unique short stories featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love in settings ranging from a... Read more

The Yellow Wallpaper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Narrated by: Tony Walker
Length: 32 minutes

“The Yellow Wallpaper is a great example of women receiving neglected health treatment while men’s health is even today further examined. It’s obvious the main characters is not receiving help, though she displays so many symptoms throughout the story. This story is also a big comment on the harmful affects of the vibrant, colorful wallpaper... Read more

Peril at End House

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #7

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

In the Agatha Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very close calls appears to be the target of a dedicated killer—and it’s up to Hercule Poirot to save her life.On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent “accidental brushes with... Read more

Little Bible Stories

By: Various
Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle
Length: 39 minutes

Introducing youngsters to classic Bible stories, this collection features four beloved tales of courage, friendship and imagination! Kids will love hearing the story of David as he faces Goliath, and following Jonah, as they learn the importance of bravery. The Good Samaritan teaches kindness to all, while Joseph's coat of many colors leads him... Read more

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Volume 1

By: Lydia Davis
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Thérèse Plummer & Mia Barron
Length: 21 hours 1 minute

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A LOS ANGELES TIMES FICTION FAVORITE FOR 2009 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF 2009 Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called... Read more

The Secret Adversary

A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries: Book #1

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

From the brilliant pen of Agatha Christie comes the first novel in her Tommy and Tuppence mystery series featuring the beloved sleuthing duo—now a movie on both Acorn TV and PBS.Tommy and Tuppence are young, in love… and flat broke. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd.—""willing to do... Read more

Look Under Rocks Children's Audiobook Bundle

DayDreaming Children's Book Bundles: Book #2

By: Lois Wickstrom
Narrated by: Brian Dewar McNamara
Length: 1 hour

A magical audiobook collection where beloved fairy tale characters combine their enchanted worlds and dive into the thrilling realm of science and experiments. From Chicken Little to the Three Little Pigs and more, this collection is perfect for curious minds and fans of both fairy tales and scientific discovery. These timeless stories come to... Read more

Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: Carl Reiner
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Tales like "How the Leopard Got His Spots" and "How the Camel Got His Hump" answer questions only children would ask and answers them in a way only children would believe. Rudyard Kipling very much intended Just So Stories to be read aloud— and no one does it better than Carl Reiner, who brings each original story to life. A superbly... Read more

Julia Donaldson Reads The Hospital Dog and Other Stories

By: Julia Donaldson
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Join Julia Donaldson and some of her best-loved illustrator friends in this wonderful collection of stories. These 18 stories are read for the first time by Julia Donaldson herself and are perfect for listening to at home, in the car, at bedtime or any time at all!

Join in the fun and head out on a moonlit adventure with Cave Baby, help... Read more

Magic for Beginners

Stories

By: Kelly Link
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, Robbie Daymond, Kirby Heyborne, Rebecca Lowman, Arthur Morey, Lorna Raver & Meera Simhan
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

From MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, an “eerie and engrossing” (The Washington Post), “dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of short stories
 
“[These] exquisite stories mix the aggravations and epiphanies of everyday life with the stuff that legends,... Read more

20th Century Ghosts

By: Joe Hill
Narrated by: David Ledoux
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him... Read more

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

By: Franz Kafka
Narrated by: Semih Owens
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position... Read more

A Blink of the Screen

Collected Shorter Fiction

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day.
 
In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other... Read more

Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang
Narrated by: Abby Craden & Todd McLaren
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

“I have read in several places that Ted Chiang is one of the most important voices in modern science fiction and after reading this book I fully agree with this statement. Stories of Your Life is a collection of short stories that for the most part were originally published in magazines. Each of the stories dealt with wildly different subjects,... Read more

Furies

Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors

By: Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie, Helen Oyeyemi, Rachel Seiffert, CN Lester, Claire Kohda, Eleanor Crewes & Annie Hodson
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Charles Armstrong, Gabrielle Glaister, Katie Leung, Laura Aikman & Shaheen Khan
Length: 8 hours

'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine
'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror
'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist
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A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers:

Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue,... Read more

Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales

By: Tamora Pierce
Narrated by: Various
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Collected here for the first time are all of the tales from the land of Tortall, featuring both previously unknown characters as well as old friends. Filling some gaps of time and interest, these stories, some of which have been published before, will lead Tammy's fans, and new readers into one of the most intricately constructed worlds of... Read more

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Multiple readers
Length: 26 hours 55 minutes

Includes the story “It Grows on You”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

The classic short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there’s no escaping the free nightly concert….A novelty toy becomes an... Read more

Homesick for Another World

Stories

By: Ottessa Moshfegh
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan & Richard Poe
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time

Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015.

Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle,... Read more

The Illustrated Man

By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

“Sometimes at night I can feel them, the pictures, like ants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they’re doing what they have to do … ”

Fantasy master Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning from the depths of humankind’s fears to the summit of their achievements in eighteen interconnected stories—visions of the future tattooed onto the body of an... Read more

Going to Meet the Man

By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

“There’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads above water. It may be the heroin that... Read more

The Death Factory

A Penn Cage Novella

Penn Cage

By: Greg Iles
Narrated by: David Ledoux
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MANDeath is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then his deepest secrets go with him.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes an e-original novella featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage, a story of family secrets and justice denied, plus an excerpt... Read more

The Faraway World

Stories

By: Patricia Engel
Narrated by: Gisela Chipé, Frankie Corzo, Inés del Castillo, Cynthia Farrell, Dominique Franceschi, George Newbern, Anthony Rey Perez, Aida Reluzco, Alejandra Reynoso, Gary Tiedemann & Patricia Engel
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

A New York Times Editors’ Choice * One of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2023 * One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year * A LitHub Best Book of 2023

From the author of Infinite Country—a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick—comes a “rich and compelling” (The Washington Post) collection... Read more

Very Good, Jeeves

The Jeeves and Wooster Series: Book #1930

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic short story collections in the English language. Whoever or whatever the cause of Bertie Wooster’s consternation―Bobbie Wickham giving away his fierce Aunt Agatha’s dog; getting into the bad books of Sir... Read more

The Inimitable Jeeves

The Jeeves and Wooster Series: Book #1923

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Bertie Wooster is in trouble again as his lovesick pal, Bingo Little, falls in love with every girl he lays eyes on. The real problem starts when Bingo decides to marry one of the girls and he enlists Bertie's help. Luckily for Bertie, Jeeves once again comes to the rescue! With his usual savoir-faire and panache, Jeeves unties the tangles and... Read more

Stories for Six-Year-Olds

By: Enid Blyton
Narrated by: Heather Long & Joe Eyre
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

A collection of short stories perfect for children aged six from the world's best loved storyteller!

Enjoy these short stories from Enid Blyton, the world's favourite storyteller. From fairies hiding in flowers to toy trains having a secret meeting, this fun collection is filled with magic, mischief and more!

These traditional tales are ideal for... Read more

When It Happens to You

A Novel in Stories

By: Molly Ringwald
Narrated by: Molly Ringwald
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time, but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be.Molly Ringwald mines the complexities of modern relationships in this gripping and nuanced collection of interlinked stories. Writing with a deep compassion... Read more

Highway Thirteen

Stories

By: Fiona McFarlane
Narrated by: Emma Jones
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

"McFarlane’s skill in evoking individual inner lives and Jones’s deftness in capturing their spirit make every character distinct." —The Washington Post on The Sun Walks Down, one of The Washington Post's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2023

A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer’s crimes in... Read more

A Place Like Home

Short Stories

By: Rosamunde Pilcher
Narrated by: Barbara Barnes, Eilidh Beaton, Ellie Heydon, Jasmine Blackborow & Jilly Bond
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

"A strong cast of five narrators rewinds time and transports listeners to sparkling seascapes and the English countryside." - AudioFile Magazine

Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love touched the world.

A Place Like Home is a spellbinding collection of short stories by internationally bestselling author... Read more