Short Stories audiobooks

Without a Hero

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical," he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America today. Without a Hero zooms in on American phenomena such as a center for the treatment of... Read more

The Color Master

By: Aimee Bender

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.

Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly imagined and... Read more

Sweet Land Stories

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson & John Rubinstein

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how we live.

Ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D.C., these superb short works... Read more

Lives of the Poets

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein & John Rubinstein

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an... Read more

One More Thing

By: B. J. Novak

Narrated by: B. J. Novak, Mindy Kaling, Lena Dunham, Jenna F...

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, and Rainn Wilson

B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new... Read more

The Elephant Vanishes

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple... Read more

After the Quake

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Rupert Degas, Teresa Gallagher & Adam Sims

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1995, the physical and social landscape of Japan was transformed by two events: the Kobe earthquake, in January, which destroyed thousands of lives, and the poison-gas attacks in the Tokyo subways in March, during the morning rush hour. Following these twin disasters, Haruki Murakami abandoned his life abroad and returned home to confront his... Read more

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor & Ellen Archer

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). 

"A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted.... His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever." —San Francisco Chronicle

Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an... Read more

A Blink of the Screen

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day.
 
In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other... Read more

Ranger's Apprentice: The Lost Stories

By: John Flanagan

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Unconfirmed accounts of a group of Araluen warriors--tales of adventure, battle, and triumph over evil--have spread for centuries throughout the known world. Most notable is a clan shrouded in mystery, phantom warriors known as the Rangers. Only now, centuries after these men and women walked the earth, do we have confirmation of their... Read more

The Twits, the Minpins & the Magic Finger

By: Roald Dahl

Narrated by: Richard Ayoade, Bill Bailey & Kate Winslet

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times


THE TWITS

How do you outwit a Twit?

Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything—except playing... Read more

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

By: Roald Dahl

Narrated by: Andrew Scott

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times

Seven superb stories, from the world's no. 1 storyteller

Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out... Read more

Fortune Smiles

By: Adam Johnson

Narrated by: W. Morgan Sheppard, Johnathan McClain, Cassandr...

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel about North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson is one of America’s most provocative and powerful authors. Critics have compared him to Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, and George Saunders, but Johnson’s new book will only further his reputation as one of our most original writers.... Read more

A Necklace of Raindrops

By: Joan Aiken

Narrated by: Lizza Aiken

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There’s a flying apple pie, a cat that’s bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, and a wealth of other wonderful characters and ideas, all with the colorful, dreamlike quality of the... Read more

Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

By: April Genevieve Tucholke

Narrated by: Robbie Daymond, Emma Bering, Nora Hunter, Jorje...

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Lois Duncan, and Daphne Du Maurier comes a powerhouse anthology featuring some of the best writers of YA thrillers and horror

A host of the smartest young adult authors come together in this collection of scary stories and psychological thrillers curated by Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’s April... Read more

Creatures of the Kingdom

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

In sixteen wonderful stories, Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener burrows deep into the secret lives of animals and the hidden world of nature. Here he sheds light on nature’s most awesome and beguiling handiwork, from the sublime shaping and reshaping of earth’s lands and seas to a ridiculous armadillo’s assault on a bit of Texas... Read more

Three Moments of an Explosion

By: China Miéville

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Bruce Mann, Hillary Huber &...

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • The Guardian • Kirkus Reviews • The fiction of multiple award–winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not... Read more

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

By: George R. R. Martin

Narrated by: Harry Lloyd

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin’s ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES AND BUZZFEED
 
These... Read more

The Tsar of Love and Techno

By: Anthony Marra

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Beata Pozniak & Rustam Kasymov

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.

This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming... Read more

The Practical Heart

By: Allan Gurganus

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In his fictional Falls, North Carolina–a watchful zone of stifling mores–Allan Gurganus’s fond and comical characters risk everything to protect their improbable hopes from prejudice, poverty, betrayal. Seeking warmth and true connection, they shield themselves and loved ones while creating a rarely-glimpsed world of valor, minor grandeur,... Read more

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud

By: Julia Navarro

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE HOLY SHROUD is the explosive international bestseller that mixes fact and fiction to tell the riveting story of one of the world’s most controversial relics–the Holy Shroud of Turin–and the desperate race to save it from those who will stop at nothing to possess its legendary power....

A fire at the Cathedral of Turin and... Read more

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

By: Yann Martel

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso, John Randolph Jones, David Ledo...

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century whose horrors and miracles their story echoes. In "The Time I Heard the Private Donald... Read more

Interpreter of Maladies

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrated by: Matilda Novak

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations.



In A Temporary Matter, published in the New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a... Read more

The Shawl

By: Cynthia Ozick

Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Two award-winning works of fiction by one of America's finest writers, together in one collection.



In "The Shawl," a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In "Rosa," that same woman appears thirty years later, "a mad woman and a scavenger" in a Miami hotel. She has no life in the present because her past... Read more