Short Stories audiobooks

Hot Water Music

By: Charles Bukowski

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music.  He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town – a motel room stinking of... Read more

The Christmas Cookie Collection

By: Lori Wilde

Narrated by: C. J. Critt

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Bestselling Author ofThe First Love Cookie Clubreturns to Twilight, Texas,with one brand-new story and three storiesnever before in print!There's a legend in Twilight, Texas. It says that if on Christmas you sleep with kismet cookies under your pillow and dream of your one true love, he will be your destiny.Carrie, Raylene,... Read more

The Kill Switch

By: James Rollins & Grant Blackwood

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood, the first installment in an exciting new thriller series based on the Sigma Force novels featuring former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his partner, Army working dog Kane, introduced in the New York Times bestseller Bloodline and the e-original story "Tracker."Former Army Ranger Tucker... Read more

The Angel on the Roof

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

""At his shattering best. . . Banks offers answers that are tough, honest, and inevitable without being simple. . . . A book that is not to be missed."" —New York TimesWith The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and... Read more

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

By: Ben Fountain

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human. Read more

The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains

By: Neil Gaiman & Eddie Campbell

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The text of The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains was first published in the collection anthology Stories: All New Tales edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. This gorgeous full-color illustrated book version was born of a unique collaboration between writer Neil Gaiman and artist Eddie Campbell, who brought to vivid life the characters... Read more

The Monogram Murders

By: Sophie Hannah & Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel... Read more

Let Me Be Frank With You

By: Richard Ford

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land.In his trio of... Read more

Lovely, Dark, Deep

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Jason Culp & Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in... Read more

The Death Factory

By: Greg Iles

Narrated by: David Ledoux

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Something Rich and Strange

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling award-winning author of Serena and The Cove, thirty of his finest short stories, collected in one volume.No one captures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty—as evocatively and indelibly as author and poet Ron Rash. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International... Read more

The Wisdom of Father Brown

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown is perhaps the most lovable amateur detective ever created. This short, shabby priest with his cherubic, round face attracts situations that baffle everyone—except Father Brown and his rather naïve wisdom.The twelve enthralling stories in this book take Father Brown from London to Cornwall, from Italy to France,... Read more

Puck of Pook’s Hill

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

On Midsummer’s Eve, Dan and Una enact A Midsummer Night’s Dream three times over—right under Pook’s Hill. That is how they meet Puck, “the oldest Old Thing in England,” and the last of the People of the Hills.Through Puck, they are introduced to the nearly forgotten pages of old England’s history and to characters that can illuminate their own... Read more

Where the Rivers Flow North

By: Howard Frank Mosher

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

These seven striking tales of life in rural New England are both lyrical and captivating. Kingdom County, Vermont, is an isolated vestige of an earlier New England. In its rugged hills, a proud and resourceful people struggle to live on the land that is both their adversary and their life's blood."Within the borders of his fictional kingdom,"... Read more

Chronicles of Avonlea

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Listeners will be thrilled to know that Anne Shirley does appear in these wonderful stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. In fact, page one starts off with Anne curled up on the window seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room, where Anne spent a fortnight of her vacation.However, most of the people who appear in this book are new to listeners of the... Read more

The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a good example of early Wodehouse. It is here that Jeeves makes his first appearance with these unremarkable words: “Mrs. Gregson to see you, sir.” Years later, when Jeeves became a household name, Wodehouse said he blushed to think of the offhand way he had treated the man at their first encounter.In the story “Extricating Young... Read more

Short Stories by Saki

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Hector Monro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue, and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to... Read more

Tales of Terror and Mystery

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume presents some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s unduly neglected masterworks of suspense. Each begins in a quietly factual way, which makes all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each startling new circumstance is revealed. Even without his supremely logical brainchild Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle shows that... Read more

The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The fifteen stories collected in this volume demonstrate the genius of a woman who, in her own short lifetime, was compared to Chekhov. The tales are sensitive revelations of human behavior in ordinary situations. With careful, quiet observation, Mansfield illuminates complicated relationships and profound, often troubling ideas. Her stories... Read more

The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French

By: Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch here gives us these four fairy tales that have been perennial favorites for centuries. The first three fairy tales are “The Sleeping Beauty,” “Blue Beard,” and “Cinderella,” all three of which were popularized in France by Charles Perrault in 1697 in hisTales of Mother Goose. The last tale in the compilation is... Read more

His Last Bow

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears. This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson’s portfolio illustrates the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes. In the course of his investigations, Holmes himself... Read more

Flappers and Philosophers

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Flappers and Philosophers marked F. Scott Fitzgerald’s entry into the realm of the short story, in which he adroitly proved himself “a master of the mechanism of short-story technique” (Boston Transcript). Several of his most well-known tales are represented in this classic collection of eight, including “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” and “Head and... Read more

Jordan County

By: Shelby Foote

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Shelby Foote undertook his epic history of the Civil War he wrote this fictional chronicle—“a landscape in narrative”—of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations.The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the... Read more

South Sea Tales

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A rare pearl is fought over during a hurricane on a South Sea island. A zealous missionary sets out to spread the gospel in a land of cannibals. The son of a Polynesian chief becomes the slave of a white man. These stories and others portray life in the South Seas in the days of tall ships over a century ago. In powerful and compelling language... Read more