Short Stories audiobooks

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

The Pastures of Heaven

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the... Read more

The Secrets of a Fire King

By: Kim Edwards

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The first story collection from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter

With The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards touched hearts across the nation. In this, her first collection of stories-now with three new stories added-she explores the lives of those who exist on the fringes of society: a fire-eater,... Read more

Armageddon in Retrospect

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Rip Torn

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace.

A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve previously unpublished writings. Imbued... Read more

Pilgrims

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The debut by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls; a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book


When it appeared in 1997, Elizabeth Gilbert’s story collection, Pilgrims, immediately announced her compelling voice, her comic touch, and her amazing ear for dialogue. “The heroes of... Read more

Thirteen Ways of Looking

By: Colum McCann

Narrated by: Colum McCann

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • The Independent

In such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, National Book Award–winning author Colum McCann has... Read more

The Early Stories of Truman Capote

By: Truman Capote

Narrated by: Scott Brick, Nancy Linari & Sarah Scott

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature

Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned... Read more

Past Perfect, Present Tense

By: Richard Peck

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Though Richard Peck is best known as a novelist, he has been writing short stories—rousing, provocative, and thoroughly entertaining—throughout his career. “Priscilla and the Wimps,” his first, is perhaps the most-read children’s short story of all time. Others have inspired his award-winning novels: A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down... Read more

A Long Way From Chicago

By: Richard Peck

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town?

August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy.
August 1930: The Cowgilll boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of... Read more

Graven Images

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: Paul Michael, Susan Denaker & Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.

Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling... Read more

Too Much Happiness

By: Alice Munro

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.

In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating... Read more

Ford County: Stories

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: John Grisham

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.

Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond,... Read more

Selected Stories

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published.

"A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story.

"Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds.

"The Family Meadow" describes a piece of America,... Read more

If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

By: Robin Black

Narrated by: Mark Deakins, Kimberly Farr, Ann Marie Lee & Ki...

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Heralding the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction, Robin Black’s If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This takes readers into the minds and hearts of people navigating the unsettling transitions that life presents to us all.
 
Written with maturity and insight, and in beautiful, clear-eyed prose, these stories plumb the depths of love,... Read more

Seven Strange & Ghostly Tales

By: Brian Jacques

Narrated by: Brian Jacques

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Maybe you don't believe in ghosts, and vampires, and spooky things that creep around in the dark...

Then you don't mind sitting by a vampire's tomb at midnight. Or being locked up with the mummies in a dark museum. Or you might like to join the mysterious boy who lurks in the shadows at Saint Michael's. Or the ghost who waits by the side of the... Read more

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

By: Karen Russell

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent.

In the collection’s title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In “Haunting Olivia,” two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead... Read more

Swim Back to Me

By: Ann Packer

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course of a lifetime.

A wife struggles to make sense of her... Read more

Fangs

By: Otto Penzler

Narrated by: Peter Altschuler, Scott Brick, Erik Davies, Sus...

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The second immortal volume in this dark and fantastic series, Fangs is a scintillating and sinister collection of vampire stories and part of the now legendary Vampire Archives. Including Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Many Many More. . .

Featuring:

·        bloody fangs
·        dark and foreboding crypts
·        mysterious... Read more

Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Various

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Nate the Great Collected Stories: Volume 3

By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat & Mitchell Sharmat

Narrated by: John Lavelle

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New on CD is the third collection of classic stories from Nate the Great and his trusty companion Sludge.

Lost List
When Nate’s friend Claude’s grocery list is lost, Nate sets out to find it before lunch.

Sticky Case
A stegosaurus stamp belonging to Nate’s friend Claude disappears, and the indomitable Nate the Great is called in on the case.

Fishy... Read more

Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters

By: Bruce Coville

Narrated by: Bruce Coville & Words Take Wing Repertory Co

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen thrills! Thirteen chills! Authors Bruce Coville, Jane Yolen, Laura Simms and others share their sometimes frightening, sometimes funny, but always satisfying tales - all about monsters! Read more

All the Time in the World

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: John Rubinstein, Joshua Swanson & Jesse Bernstein

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World’s Fair, The March, and Homer & Langley, the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from... Read more

Dear Life

By: Alice Munro

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time.

Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is... Read more

The Whore's Child

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women... Read more