Short Stories audiobooks

The Half Life

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Katie Finneran

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s short story, The Half Life, previously published in Redbook magazine is now available on audio.

From Redbook ’s Red-Hot Read series, a short story by the New York Times #1 bestselling author of In Her Shoes and Fly Away Home …

“My life is over,” Piper DeWitt thinks to herself, awaiting... Read more

Fine Just The Way It Is

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

2009 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx, an "unforgettable" (Miami Herald) and "vivid" (Oprah Daily) collection of stories set in Wyoming.

Winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable... Read more

Close Range

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Campbell Scott & Bruce Greenwood

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below,"... Read more

Guy Not Taken

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Jordan Bridges & Mary Catherine Garrison

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime.

We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had... Read more

Palo Alto

By: James Franco

Narrated by: James Franco & Stacey Miller

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a “provocative” and “impressive” (Variety) film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter)—starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer—the fiction debut from James Franco that Vogue called “compelling and gutsy.”

James Franco’s story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they... Read more

The Angel Esmeralda

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Michael Cerveris, Peter Friedman, Heather Lind,...

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of “dazzlingly told” (The New York Times) short stories—now available as a trade paperback.

Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, this “small masterpiece of short fiction” (USA Today) is a mesmerizing... Read more

The Convict and Other Stories

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Steven Boyer, Louis Moreno, Richard Poe, Ed Sal...

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South.

“America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South—the people, the crime,... Read more

Winner Take Nothing

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. Some stories included are “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” a story about one man’s night in a café; “Homage to Switzerland”... Read more

Carniepunk: The Sweeter the Juice

By: Mark Henry

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the Amanda Feral series Mark Henry lends his brilliantly twisted imagination to the gripping Carniepunk anthology in this creepy zombie short story.

When the zombie apocalypse overtakes New York City, a trip to Coney Island is the most frightening thing of all. A gruesome tale of transformation, Ferris wheels, and transsexuals. Read more

Carniepunk: The Demon Barker of Wheat Street

By: Kevin Hearne

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hounded—“a superb urban fantasy debut” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—comes an Iron Druid Chronicles short story in the captivating Carniepunk anthology.

The ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan gets more than greasy corn dogs and flat soda when he visits a carnival in Kansas to which his apprentice,... Read more

Carniepunk: The Cold Girl

By: Rachel Caine

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the mesmerizing Carniepunk anthology, a vampire short story from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine—the author who brought you the immensely popular Morganville Vampires series.

When Kiley learns firsthand what evil lurks in the heart of her boyfriend, he’ll learn about the Cold Girl, and her penchant for retribution. Read more

Carniepunk: A Duet with Darkness

By: Allison Pang

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss this urban fantasy short story featuring Abby Sinclair in the spellbinding Carniepunk anthology collection, from bestselling author Allison Pang!

Having just quit Julliard, disillusioned fiddler Melanie St. James finds herself as part of a group of traveling musicians en route to an OtherFolk carnival. Eager to break the chains of a... Read more

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.

Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of... Read more

The Empty Family

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Colm Toibin, Terry Donnelly, John Keating, Jeff...

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling and award-winning author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín, returns with a stunning collection of stories—“a book that’s both a perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure” (The Seattle Times).

Critics praised Brooklyn as a “beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.” In The... Read more

More Twisted

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines, Skipp Sudduth & Frederick Weller

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

While best known for his twenty-four novels, Jeffery Deaver is also a short story master—he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader’s Award for Best Short Story, and he won the Short Story Dagger from the Crime Writers Association for a piece that appeared in his first short story collection, Twisted. The New York Times said of that... Read more

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories

By: Etgar Keret

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Classic warped and wonderful stories from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller.
 
Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of fiction, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his... Read more

Devotion

By: Maile Meloy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most popular and acclaimed story writers of her generation, a single-volume short story from the author of 2017's Do Not Become Alarmed, a beautifully packaged palm-sized gift book.

“That the yellow house was thrillingly affordable might have been a warning sign, if Eleanor had known how to read it. But she’d been desperate. She... Read more

Redeployment

By: Phil Klay

Narrated by: Craig Klein

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

"Redeployment is hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. It’s the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” —Dexter Filkins, The New York Times Book Review

Selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post Book... Read more

The New York Stories

By: John O'Hara

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale, ...

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker)

Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the twentieth century’s definitive chroniclers of the city—the speakeasies and highballs,... Read more

Hall of Small Mammals

By: Thomas Pierce

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller.

The stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite. A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers,... Read more

Drown

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of eleven stories by a young writer evoke his hard-fought youth in the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the bleak urban landscapes of New Jersey, combining a journalist's dispassionate eye with an ear for poetry.

"This stunning collection of stories offers an unsentimental glimpse of life among the immigrants from the Dominican... Read more

This Is How You Lose Her

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Junot Díaz

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2012 National Book AwardA Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012
Finalist for the 2012 Story Prize
Chosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more... 

"Electrifying." –The New York Times Book... Read more

The Long Valley

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Penguin Classic

First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for... Read more

Kinsey and Me

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey’s origins and Sue’s past.

“I've come to believe that Grafton is not only the most talented woman writing crime... Read more