Short Stories audiobooks

A Week in Summer

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Maeve Binchy

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

After many happy years of marriage and raising a family, Brian and Kathleen suddenly find themselves a bit lost in life. Midwesterners who’ve never traveled, Kathleen decides that what she and Brian need is a vacation, and with the help of an enthusiastic travel agent she plans a trip to Ireland in search of her roots. In beautiful, quaint... Read more

Sunlight and Joy

By: Barbara Delinsky

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sunlight and Joy” is Barbara Delinsky’s heartwarming story about a couple relearning how to appreciate the simple things. Also included is an exclusive conversation with Barbara about what inspires her writing and an advance peek at her newest novel, Escape.
 
Blessed with three wonderful children and a life full of material comforts, Rick and... Read more

Looking for Jake

By: China Miéville

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking collection of stories, including four never-before-published tales, from the award-winning author of Perdido Street Station

What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Among the fourteen superb... Read more

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.
 
The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s... Read more

Fallen in Love

By: Lauren Kate

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Unexpected. Unrequited. Forbidden. Eternal. Everyone has their own love story.

A USA Today bestseller
More than 3 million series copies in print!

And in a twist of fate, four extraordinary love stories intersect over the course of a romantic Valentine’s Day in medieval England. Miles and Shelby find love where they least expect it. Roland learns a... Read more

Magic Terror

By: Peter Straub

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of seven exquisite tales about living, dying, and the horror that lies in between, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story

“Elegant, terrifying, provocative.”—The Washington Post Book World

Welcome to a new kind of terror as Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche. Here the master of the macabre... Read more

Mount Olympus

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Martian adventure story, two men fly to the highest mountain on Mars, and in the process learn more about Mars and about themselves.

Bova's work is premeated by the idea of space as a new frontier, and of SF settings as opportunities for explorers and entrepreneuers, the classic Heinlein thematics of American SF. Read more

A Hero of the Empire

By: Robert Silverberg

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Another story of Roma Eterna. A Roman nobleman is sent in punishment to a remote corner of the Empire–the Arabian city we know as Mecca. Read more

Evermore

By: Sean Williams

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"We must all hang together," Benjamin Franklin is reported to have said to his revolutionary peers, "or we will assuredly all hang separately." This is a sentiment that's even more appropriate, and more urgent, when you're lost between the stars in a crippled and out-of-control ship, your shipmates aren't talking to each other (and haven't for... Read more

How We Lost the Moon

By: Paul J. McAuley

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"On the busy, bustling, colonized future Moon, McAuley reminds us that although everyone makes mistakes, some mistakes have far greater consequences than others..." So writes Gardner Dozois, editor of the Seventeenth Annual Collection of The Year's Best Science Fiction, about this thrilling and meticulous sci-fi tale. Read more

Exchange Rate

By: Hal Clement

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic novella, harried human explorers must try to figure out the lifeways and motivations of some extremely strange and enigmatic alien creatures on one of the strangest planets ever portrayed in science fiction - and do it all before the clock runs out. Read more

What Salmon Know

By: Elwood Reid

Narrated by: Andre Sogliuzzo

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Compared by critics to such masterful storytellers as Raymond Carver, Rick Bass, and Thom Jones, Elwood Reid, author of the acclaimed novel If I Don't Six, signals a powerful presence on the American literary landscape with his knockout story collection, What Salmon Know.

Reid's characters are tough men living in a world tougher than they are.... Read more

These Hands

By: Kevin Brockmeier

Narrated by: Andre Sogliuzzo

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Caroline is watchful and sincere, shy yet earnest. She seldom speaks, and when she does her lips scarcely part, so that sometimes Lewis must listen closely to distinguish her voice from the cycling of her breath. Her eyes are a miracle - a startled blue with frail green spikes bound by a ring of black - and he is certain that if he could draw... Read more

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

By: Karen Russell

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.

In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested... Read more

My True Love Gave to Me

By: Stephanie Perkins

Narrated by: Various

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers (Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de La Peña, Gayle... Read more

Magic for Beginners

By: Kelly Link

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbe...

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, an “eerie and engrossing” (The Washington Post), “dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of short stories
 
“[These] exquisite stories mix the aggravations and epiphanies of everyday life with the stuff that legends,... Read more

Get In Trouble

By: Kelly Link

Narrated by: Grace Experience, Kirby Heyborne, Tara Sands, R...

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A bewitching story collection from the author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, hailed as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” (Michael Chabon) and “our greatest living fabulist” (Carmen Maria Machado)

“Ridiculously brilliant . . . These stories make you laugh while... Read more

Stone Mattress

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Rob Delaney, Mark Bramhall, Lo...

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace.

Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships... Read more

The Return Journey

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this extraordinary collection of stories, New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart with powerfully compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation.

A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip. . . .
A man and a... Read more

Graveyard Shift

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

Gray Matter

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Gray Matter" from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

The Lawnmower Man

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "The Lawnmower Man," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

The Master of Rampling Gate

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Gigi Marceau

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the undisputed Queen of Vampire Literature, Anne Rice, The Master of Rampling Gate is a chilling tale of vampiric seduction.

Set in the gasslit streets of 1888 London and the wild moors of the countryside beyond, The Master of Rampling Gate tells the story of Julie, a young woman who becomes obsessed with the house her father swore her and... Read more

Haunted

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Various

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,” and who... Read more