Short Stories audiobooks

The Man in Black

By: Elly Griffiths

Narrated by: Luke Thompson, Jane McDowell, Juliette Burton, ...

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries, an eclectic, thrilling collection of short stories, featuring many characters that readers have come to know and love.Elly Griffiths has always written short stories to experiment with different voices and genres as well as to explore what some of her fictional creations... Read more

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By: Kim Fu

Narrated by: Piper Goodeve, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Samara Nae...

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of... Read more

There is a Rio Grande in Heaven

By: Ruben Reyes Jr.

Narrated by: Johnny Rey Diaz

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

""Ruben Reyes Jr. is a wonder."" — Héctor Tobar""These are stories to treasure and ponder, long after the last page has been turned."" —Xochitl GonzalezAn electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.An ordinary man... Read more

Stories of Spells and Enchantments

By: Enid Blyton

Narrated by: Jessica Alade

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling collection of magical tales by the world's best-loved storyteller. Perfect for children aged 5 and up!

There are tales of the most powerful enchanters and conjurers in Fairyland in this bumper collection of short stories by Enid Blyton. But their spells don't always go smoothly! From witches who will cast an enchantment at the drop of... Read more

The Beast You Are

By: Paul Tremblay

Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Xe Sands, Ewan Chung, Graham Hal...

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World. Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Michael Kyle

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge learns to love Christmas and the people all around him. ©2020 Pandora's Box (P)2020 Pandora's Box Read more

The Last Dream

By: Pedro Almodóvar

Narrated by: Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz, Juan Diego Botto,...

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz, Michael Cera, Juan Diego Botto, Norbert Leo Butz, Taylour Paige, and Edoardo Ballerini“A major literary talent’s virtuosic debut” (Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author), the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in... Read more

The Churn: An Expanse Novella

By: James S. A. Corey

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey's NYT-bestselling Expanse series, The Churn takes the bestselling sci-fi series to the dark world of organized crime, drugs, secrets, and murder that shaped the Rocinante's mechanic, Amos. Now a Prime Original series.

HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES

Before his trip to the stars,... Read more

What We Fed to the Manticore

By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

Narrated by: Neil Shah & Nikki Massoud

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In nine stories that span the globe, What We Fed to the Manticore takes readers inside the minds of a full cast of animal narrators to understand the triumphs, heartbreaks, and complexities of the creatures that share our world.Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut collection... Read more

Other People We Married

By: Emma Straub

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Barrie Kreinik & Marin Ireland

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved story collection from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Vacationers, All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow

In Other People We Married, Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit, vulnerability, and dazzling insight. In “Some People... Read more

Very Good, Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

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

To Be a Man

By: Nicole Krauss

Narrated by: Nicole Krauss

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

O, The Oprah Magazine's 20 Best Titles of the YearTime Magazine's 100 Books to Read in 2020 Financial Times' Best Books of 2020Esquire's Best Books of 2020New York Times Editors' Choice
Lit Hub's Best Books of 2020 Bustle's Best Short Story Collections of 2020Electric Literature's Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020Library Journal's Best... Read more

Green Frog

By: Gina Chung

Narrated by: Jeena Yi, Sue Jean Kim & Hannah Choi

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Sea Change comes a short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival.

"The stories hit, each one, and land with such seeming perfection. Chung’s book sits next to my all-time favorite story collections by masters of the craft: Karen Russell, Nana Kwame... Read more

The Premium Collection of Agatha Christie. 60 + Novels and Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Peter Coates & Mark Bowen

Length: 72 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Premium Collection of Agatha Christie brings together over 60 novels and short stories, featuring some of the most iconic detectives in mystery literature. This comprehensive anthology offers readers a chance to explore the brilliant cases solved by beloved characters such as Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Mr. Quin & Satterthwaite, Colonel... Read more

Short Christmas Stories for Kids

By: Laura E. Richards, Willam Dean Howells, Hans Ch...

Narrated by: Holly Kyrre, Nicki White & Erik Blior

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you hung up your stocking?
Grab yourselves a hot chocolate, a warm blanket and settle down to a collection of entertaining Christmas Stories that will get your little ones in the spirit of Christmas.
Each of these traditional tales are the perfect length for listening at quiet time, bedtime and the classroom. Read more

Doctor Who: Fifteen Doctors 15 Stories

By: Doctor Who

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Puffin.

Introducing this edition of this much-loved anthology, now with Fifteenth and Fourteenth Doctor stories.

Fifteen wonderful tales of adventure, science, magic, monsters and time travel – featuring all fifteen Doctors – are waiting for you in this very special Doctor Who volume.

Includes a bonus story starring the Fourteenth... Read more

Vacations from Hell

By: Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Maur...

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by some of today’s most exciting teen authors, Vacations from Hell offers five unique takes on a universal experience—unforgettable trips.This third Hell collection features stories of vacations that take a serious turn for the worse when paranormal elements interfere.Claudia Gray’s teen witch falls for the wrong guy on her family’s... Read more

Hallowe'en Party

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, coming in 2023!In this authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, a Halloween Party turns deadly, and it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer.At a Halloween party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a... Read more

Her Body and Other Parties

By: Carmen Maria Machado

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado... Read more

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

By: GennaRose Nethercott

Narrated by: GennaRose Nethercott, January LaVoy, Gabra Zack...

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us—or go monstrously wrong.

“Real magic, real delight, doled out generously in the shape of wistful, ferocious, this-world-but-better stories.”—Kelly Link, author of White Cat,... Read more

The History of Sound

By: Ben Shattuck

Narrated by: Ben Shattuck, Zachary Chastain, Paul Mescal, Di...

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION

“Polyphonic fiction. . . . A reminder of the short story’s power. . . . The History of Sound marks Shattuck as one of the form’s brightest lights. . . . A terrific writer. . . . Deeply resonant.” —The Boston Globe

“Exquisitely crafted, deeply imagined, exhilaratingly diverse,... Read more

Florida

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Lauren Groff

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds

In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "gorgeously weird and limber" (New Yorker), "frequently funny" (San Francisco... Read more

A Stroke of the Pen

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: David Tennant, Claire Foy, Steffan Rhodri, Jon ...

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry Pratchett, the award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld fantasy series. This special trove is a must-have for Pratchett fans of all ages and includes a foreword by Neil Gaiman. The audiobook is... Read more

Look Both Ways

By: Jason Reynolds

Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms, Chris Chalk, Bahni Turpin...

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!

UK Carnegie Medal winner
A National Book Award Finalist
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
An NPR Favorite Book of 2019
A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2019
A Time Best Children’s Book of 2019
A Today Show Best Kids’ Book of 2019
A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2019
A School Library... Read more