Short Stories audiobooks

Men and Cartoons

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem, David Aaron Baker, Sandra Bern...

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new listeners-- a smorgasbord of fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles. Lethem is a trailblazer fo a new kind of literary fiction, sampling high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly... Read more

Loose Woman and Woman Hollering Creek

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Loose Woman

Seductive, earthy, and at times confessional, Sandra Cisneros's vibrant collection of poetry celebrates the females aspects of love--from the reflective to the overtly erotic--in a voice recognizable from her powerful works of fiction.

These poems offer narratives as formally elegant as they are emotional and accessible. They are... Read more

Collected Stories

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Various

Length: 31 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner
 
Winner of the National Book Award

Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who... Read more

The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Exhilarating short stories of women breaking free from convention

Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks up her heels, and commits a small act of liberation.

What would you do, if you were going to break out and away? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you... Read more

Little Golden Treasury

By: Gertrude Crampton, Janette Sebring Lowrey & Kat...

Narrated by: Susan Gregory & Skip Hinnant

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Poky Little Puppy, by Janette Sebring Lowrey. Read by Susan Gregory
A poky little puppy loves to dig holes under the fence despite what his family says. But the poky little puppy digs one hole too many and ends up missing dessert

Scuffy the Tugboat, by Gertrude Crampton. Read by Skip Hinnant
Meant for “bigger things,” Scuffy the Tugboat sets... Read more

Moral Disorder

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since Wilderness Tips.

In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death.... Read more

Unaccustomed Earth

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrated by: Sarita Choudhury & Ajay Naidu

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand.
 
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his... Read more

The Twenty-seventh Man

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

 A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review Read more

The Tumblers

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, in which Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and, in a deft, imaginative twist, turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm’s way. FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES is a work of startling authority and imagination–an... Read more

Reunion

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review Read more

The Wig

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.  “The Wig” takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of... Read more

The Gilgul of Park Avenue

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review
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Reb Kringle

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review Read more

The Last One Way

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review Read more

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Short Story)

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.    

In Englander's amazingly taut and ambitious "The Twenty-seventh Man," a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with twenty-six writers slated for execution at... Read more

In This Way We Are Wise

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review Read more

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Susan Denaker, Arthur Morey & Paul Michael

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.    

In Englander's amazingly taut and ambitious "The Twenty-seventh Man," a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with twenty-six writers slated for execution at... Read more

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections From The Frontier Stories, Volume 5

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer – who The Wall Street Journal recently compared with... Read more

Porch Lies

By: Patricia McKissack

Narrated by: Pamella D'Pella, Adenrele Ojo & Mirron Willis

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm.

From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating introductions to... Read more

Law of the Desert Born

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A PRIZED COLLECTION OF AMERICAN FICTION—FROM AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLER
 
This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L’Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very best: spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend... Read more

Dreamsongs

By: George R. R. Martin

Narrated by: Various

Length: 51 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Dubbed "the American Tolkien" by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a selection of his shorter works, collected into this audio collection, offering fascinating insight... Read more

Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

By: Louis Sachar

Narrated by: Louis Sachar

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in perennial favorite Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger!

Before you enter Wayside School, you should know that it’s a thirty-story building with one classroom on each floor. Mrs. Jewls teaches the class on the thirtieth... Read more

Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files

By: Rick Riordan

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Young demigods, brace yourselves for a peak inside the highly classified Demigod Files! Compiled by Camp Half-Blood's senior scribe, Rick Riordan, these top secret archives include three of Percy Jackson's most perilous adventures and behind-the-scenes interviews with your favorite characters--Connor and Travis, Clarisse, Annabeth, Grover, and... Read more

The Suicide Run

By: William Styron

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction–including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. The Suicide Run collects five of these meticulously... Read more