Short Stories audiobooks

Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: various narrators, Bruce Blau, David Thorn, Jim...

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young... Read more

The Summer He Didn’t Die

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Lloyd James & Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated author Jim Harrison, whose robust, tender, and deeply felt books have made their mark on the American literary landscape, here delivers a collection of three novellas infused with all the wisdom and generous spirit that have made him a master writer.In the title novella, “The Summer He Didn’t Die,” Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan... Read more

Dave Henderson’s Dog Stories

By: Dave Henderson

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave Henderson, a seasoned outdoorsman, presents twenty-one great stories about dogs he’s collected over the years. Although fictional, they represent the wonderful relationship between canine and man. Some stories have been previously published and have been favored by good reviews from all areas of dogdom.If you have come across them before,... Read more

The Trembling of a Leaf

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

When noted English writer W. Somerset Maugham set off for the South Seas to regain his health, his experiences would become the bedrock for the stories represented here. These are among Maugham’s best work, as well as some of the best stories ever written about the exotic South Seas.“Mackintosh” is a taut psychological study of two officials on... Read more

Paris Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

Narrated by: Lorna Raver & Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 16 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker for close to fifty years, and the undisputed master of the short story. Her peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequaled skill. This superb collection of fifteen of Gallant's stories, edited and with an... Read more

Our Story Begins

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Tobias Wolff’s first two books, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and Back in the World, proved how the short story can “provoke our amazed appreciation” (New York Times Book Review). In the years since, he’s written a third collection, The Night in Question, as well as several other astounding works. Now he returns with fresh... Read more

None So Blind

By: Joe Haldeman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning visionary and true master of worlds and wonders, the man whom author David Brin calls “one of the best prophetic writers of our times,” once again demonstrates the breathtaking scope and startling power of his imagination, transporting listeners across space and time, into the heart of darkness and the soul of madness.From the... Read more

The Southern Woman

By: Elizabeth Spencer

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 20 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author’s most masterful stories and novellas including The... Read more

How It Ended

By: Jay McInerney

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation comes a collection of stories drawn from his nearly three-decade career. Whether set in New England, Los Angeles, New York, or the South, they unveil the manic flux of our society as they capture various stages of adulthood: a young man confronting the class system... Read more

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: various narrators, Richard Powers, Malcolm Hill...

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the twentieth century, Richard Matheson has left his stamp on the collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, personally selected by the author himself. Many of these stories have already entered into popular culture, including... Read more

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Ray Porter, Carrington MacDuffie & Lorna Raver

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren’t irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected... Read more

Julip

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Ray Porter, Hillary Huber & William Hughes

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Harrison takes us on a journey of the human heart in three novellas in which the irresistible pull of nature becomes a magnificent backdrop for exploring the toughest questions about life and love.Julip follows a bright and resourceful young woman as she tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail after he shot three of her former lovers... Read more

A Good Fall

By: Ha Jin

Narrated by: a full cast, Tai Sammons, Ray Porter, Robertson...

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award-winner Ha Jin brings us a collection of stories that delve into the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America. All of Ha Jin’s characters struggle in situations that stir their conflicting desires to remain attached to their native land and traditions while also exploring their newfound social and economic freedoms.A... Read more

Big Country, Vol. 2

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L’Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a “big country needing big men and women to live in it.” Here are three more of his fine short stories about the West.West of the Tularosa Ruth Kermitt, owner of the Tumbling K ranch, made a deal with old Tom McCracken, owner of the Firebox spread, to buy his... Read more

Identity Theft

By: Robert J. Sawyer

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Identity Theft is a hard-boiled detective novella set on Mars, writtenby the man Anne McCaffrey calls "an absolutely marvelous writer."Cassandra and Joshua Wilkins are fossil hunters who have both recently transferred their minds into artificial bodies, but now Joshua has mysteriously disappeared. Cassandra must hire Alex Lomax, the only private... Read more

Wild Child, and Other Stories

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

There may be no one better than T. C. Boyle at engaging, shocking, and ultimately gratifying readers while at the same time testing his characters’ emotional and physical endurance.The fourteen stories in this rich new collection display T. C. Boyle’s astonishing range and imaginative muscle. Nature is the dominant player in many of these... Read more

The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Twain was known as a great American short-story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known, displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism. The stories also show how Twain earned his place in American letters as a master writer in the... Read more

The Farmer’s Daughter

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Ray Porter & Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Harrison's numerous works have established him as one of the most beloved and popular authors in American fiction. His novel The English Major was a National Indie Bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Title, and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. This collection of novellas finds him writing at the height of his... Read more

Cruel Miracles

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Grover Gardner, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnick...

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features tales with religious themes, exploring the mysteries of ritual, sacrifice, faith, and death.Mortal GodsIn our mortality lies our greatness.Saving GraceA story of TV faith healers and those who follow them.Eye for EyeAn abused child has the gift of creating... Read more

Flux

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Orson Scott Card, Paul Boehmer, Arte Johnson, S...

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This second volume of Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race.A Thousand Deaths In Soviet-occupied America, Jerry Crove is found guilty and convicted of knowing about the planned assassination of a Russian high official and not reporting it to the... Read more

Dimanche and Other Stories

By: Irène Némirovsky

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of never-before-translated stories by the bestselling author of Suite Française, this is a gorgeous, gemlike volume with the same attention to detail that won Irène Némirovsky so many fans. Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten stories mine the same terrain as her bestselling novels: a keen eye for the details of social class;... Read more

Everything That Rises Must Converge

By: Flannery O’Connor

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Karen White, Mark Bramhall & L...

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O’Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment. The title story is a tragicomedy about social pride, racial bigotry, generational conflict, false... Read more

Patricia Highsmith

By: Patricia Highsmith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 27 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith’s classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book... Read more

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

By: Maile Meloy

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter & Bronson Pinchot

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning writer Maile Meloy’s return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers.Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers. Propelled by a... Read more