Short Stories audiobooks

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

By: Z. Z. Packer

Narrated by: Shirley Jordan

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Audie® Award Finalist!

A remarkable debut short-story collection by a fresh and captivating new voice in American literature. Read more

My Little Town

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town . . .” Lake Wobegon has been Garrison Keillor’s fictional home town—and America’s—for almost 40 years. Many of us have grown up with “the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.” The Chatterbox Café, the Sidetrack Tap, the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility,... Read more

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Adam Verner & Christine Williams

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. “The Corn Maiden” is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one night to... Read more

The Hunter and Other Stories

By: Dashiell Hammett

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby, Brian Holsopple, Donna Postel &...

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Dashiell Hammett is best known as both pioneer and master of American hard-boiled detective fiction, but these dozen and a half stories both affirm that reputation and present him in a different light. Along with the full-length screen treatments On the Make (which became the movie Mr. Dynamite, 1935) and The Kiss-Off (the basis for City... Read more

High Crime Area

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Ray Chase, Donna Postel & Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In the title story, a white aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic—she has a handgun stowed away in her purse, just in case. But when she turns to confront her black male shadow, the situation isn’t what she expects. In “The Rescuer,” a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save... Read more

Mr. Bones

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Tim Flavin & Garrick Hagon

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector relishes publicly destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stages an all-consuming war on the raccoons living in the woods around their house. A young... Read more

You Only Get Letters From Jail

By: Jodi Angel

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & T. Ryder Smith

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Jodi Angel' s second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after mom' s overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel's characters are motivated by muscle cars,... Read more

There's Something I Want You to Do

By: Charles Baxter

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith, Kevin R. Free, Andrea Gallo & S...

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From a contemporary master of the short story: a dazzling new collection-his first in fifteen years-that explores the unpredictable and mysterious in seemingly ordinary experience. These interrelated stories are arranged in two sections, one devoted to virtues ("Bravery," "Loyalty," "Chastity," "Charity," and "Forbearance") and the other to... Read more

Crimes in Southern Indiana

By: Frank Bill

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

With this critically acclaimed debut collection, Frank Bill announces himself as an author of fiercely defined vision. In these vivid tales, Bill's southern Indiana proves a literary destination of immense nuance, even as his mostly working-class characters cry out in voices that cannot be denied. "Blasts off like a frigging rocket ship and hits... Read more

Mad Hope

By: Heather Birrell

Narrated by: Erin Moon, Graham Rowat, Tandy Cronyn & Morgan ...

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In the stories of Mad Hope, Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both unrecognizable and alarming. We think we know these people but discover we don't-they are more alive, more real, and more complex than we first imagined. A high school science teacher is forced to re-examine the role he played in... Read more

American Salvage

By: Bonnie Jo Campbell

Narrated by: Jeffrey Brick, Stevie Ray Dallimore, Andrea Gal...

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell has been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the AWP Award for Short Fiction, and Southern Review’s Eudora Welty Prize. In this stunning collection—a National Book Award finalist—Campbell paints unapologetically frank portraits of broken souls striving for redemption.

In rural Michigan, the American dream, if it... Read more

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

By: Lydia Davis

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Thérèse Plummer & Mia Barron

Length: 21 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A LOS ANGELES TIMES FICTION FAVORITE FOR 2009 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF 2009 Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called... Read more

Damage Control

By: Amber Dermont

Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Danielle Ferland & David Aaron Baker

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement, from the bestselling author of The Starboard Sea Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In " Lyndon," a daughter visits presidential landmarks following the death of her father. In " Damage Control," a young man... Read more

Middle Men

By: Jim Gavin

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith, Jonathan Todd Ross & Chris Sore...

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Middle Men, Stegner Fellow and New Yorker contributor Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, portraying a group of men, from young dreamers to old vets, as they make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. In " Play the Man" a high-school basketball player aspires to a college scholarship, in " Elephant... Read more

Problems with People

By: David Guterson

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith, Mark Zeisler & George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars returns to his Pacific Northwest settings-and moves beyond them-in ten sharply observed, funny, and wise new stories that explore the mysteries of love, and unravel our complex desires to connect with others. Ranging from teenage to middle-age, the voices that inhabit Problems with People offer... Read more

You Are Not A Stranger Here

By: Adam Haslett

Narrated by: Steven Crossley, Norman Dietz, James Jenner, Jo...

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In his bestselling and lavishly praised first book of stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish... Read more

Dancing Dogs

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

No one brings to life the remarkable bond between humans and their dogs like New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz. He has warmed our spirits with enchanting tales and keen observations of his animal menagerie-the dogs, sheep, chickens, and other residents of Bedlam Farm. Now, Katz is back with what he does best in his first collection of... Read more

One More Year

By: Sana Krasikov

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Sana Krasikov's short story collection has won widespread accolades and earmarked the author as a writer of immense promise. In these affecting tales, Russian and Georgian immigrants find love and fear in their new homeland. "In her stunning short story debut, Krasikov hones in on the subtleties of hope and despair that writhe in the hearts of... Read more

The Fox

By: D.H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Sheri Blair

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Two women isolated on a lonely Cornish farm face an evil greater than all others: a fox has begun carrying off hens and roosters, and nothing they do seems to stop him. And then one day, a mysterious young man appears at the door. Now the women have to fend off not one, but two foxes. Read more

The Unreal and the Real, Vol 1

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories-- as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself-- the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day.... Read more

The Unreal and the Real, Vol 2

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley' s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power-- all the time... Read more

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

By: Yiyun Li

Narrated by: Angela Lin, James Yaegashi, Jackie Chung & Jenn...

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Yiyun Li, honored as one of Granta's 21 Best Young American Novelists under age 35, continues her illustrious career with this insightful collection of short stories. With compelling visions of the scrapes and unpleasant situations in which people find themselves, Li's works trigger emotional responses of all types-whether through a tale... Read more

Dangerous Laughter

By: Steven Millhauser

Narrated by: George Guidall, Adam Grupper, Andy Paris, Jim F...

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this acclaimed collection of short stories, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Millhauser shares the dark suspense and humor that have gained him a cult following. Millhauser's imagination and creativity are on full display with stories featuring artists gone mad, egomaniacal architects, and a historical society that's given up its... Read more

Voices in the Night

By: Steven Millhauser

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Jonathan Davis & Adam Grupper

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories--provocative, funny, disturbing, magical--that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser... Read more