Short Stories audiobooks

Signs and Wonders

By: Alix Ohlin

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn, Morgan Hallett & Graham Rowat

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us-connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of ourselves. Read more

Make Something Up

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Ken Marks, Luis Moreno, Rich Orlow, T. Ryder Sm...

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Chuck Palahniuk, literature’s favorite transgressive author, gives us twenty-one stories and one novella in Make Something Up, a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure. In “Expedition,” fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club. And in other stories, the... Read more

Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing

By: Lydia Peelle

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, Scott Sowers, Thérèse Plummer...

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The compelling short stories of Lydia Peelle have earned her two Pushcart Prizes, an O. Henry Award, and publication in Best New American Voices. This debut collection brings together eight superbly crafted stories that peer deeply into the human heart, exploring lives derailed by the loss of a vital connection to the land and to the natural... Read more

The Heaven of Animals

By: David James Poissant

Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Peter Jay Fernandez, Ken Marks, ...

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this masterful debut, an award-winning writer and first-rate storyteller explores the tenuous bonds of family-- fathers and sons, husbands and wives-- as they are tested by the sometimes brutal power of love. In each of the stories in this remarkable collection, David James Poissant delivers a moving portrayal of a relationship in turmoil.... Read more

Tail of Vengeance

By: Spencer Quinn

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Chet and Bernie-everybody's favorite human-canine detective team-are asked by a beautiful woman to find evidence that would put her cheating boyfriend in the doghouse in this e-original short story from New York Times bestselling author Spencer Quinn. Read more

Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger

By: Lee Smith

Narrated by: Debra Monk, Julia Gibson, Kate Forbes, Susan Be...

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Virginia native Lee Smith has won two O. Henry Awards, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and the Robert Penn Warren Prize for her engaging works. A collection of 14 tales-both new stories and previously published favorites-Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger is sure to delight listeners with its warm humor and unforgettable characters.... Read more

Screwjack

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Hunter S. Thompson’s legions of fans have waited a decade for this book.

They will not be disappointed. His notorious Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since the private printing in 1991 of three hundred fine collectors’ copies and twenty-six leather-bound presentation copies. Only the first... Read more

Night at the Fiestas

By: Kirstin Valdez Quade

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

***National Book Foundation 2014 "5 Under 35" honoree*** Set in northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully rendered debut about living in a landscape shaped by love, loss, and violence. With intensity, dark humor, and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters... Read more

While Mortals Sleep

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Kurt Vonnegut made his mark as one of America's most influential writers with novels such as Slaughterhouse- Five-named one of the 100 best English-language novels by Time. Published posthumously, While Mortals Sleep is a collection of 16 short stories, written early in Vonnegut's career, that further cements his status as an American literary... Read more

Sleep Toward Heaven

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

Narrated by: Carol Monda & Susan Bennett

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Amanda Eyre Ward’s debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal
Texas summer.

In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution with a host of convicted serial
killers on death row. In Manhattan, Dr. Franny Wren, also twenty-nine, tends to a young cancer patient, and resists
the... Read more

Battleborn

By: Claire Vaye Watkins

Narrated by: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Mozhan Marno, Laura Kn...

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of... Read more

How to Escape from a Leper Colony

By: Tiphanie Yanique

Narrated by: Robin Miles, Dion Graham & Andrew Garman

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Like Gabriel GarcIa MArquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse CondE before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a debut collection that is heartbreaking, hilarious, and mesmerizing. Set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands, these lyrical and haunting stories are part oral history, part postcolonial narrative-but ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly... Read more

The Matisse Stories

By: A.S. Byatt

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A.S. Byatt's books shimmer with all the hues of her critically acclaimed talent and imagination. In The Matisse Stories, this Booker Prize-winning author offers three elegant tales that explore the subtle interplays between mind and eye, heart and hand. In the first, Medusa's Ankles, a fashionable woman watches her life take on darker, more... Read more

New Stories From the South 2005

By: Shannon Ravenel

Narrated by: Jessica Almasy, Caroline Clay, Michael Emerson,...

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, O. Henry Award and Edgar Awards, the 19 writers in this 2005 edition are not just considered some of the best Southern writers, but among the best American writers period. With works by such writers as Dennis Lehane, Moira Crone, Robert Olen Butler, Cary Holladay, Tom Franklin, and Rebecca Soppe, this... Read more

A Paris Affair

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

Narrated by: Polly Stone & Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally best-selling author of SARAH'S KEY comes an irreverent yet heartfelt collection that examines our most intimate and forbidden desires

Late nights at the office... Hotel rooms and secret rendezvous... Lingering perfume... Sizzling texts...

What takes place in Paris when husbands and wives tangle with infidelity?

In this... Read more

In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Leslie S. Klinger, Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheri...

Narrated by: Traber Burns, Gildart Jackson, Saskia Maarlevel...

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely acclaimed authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in the shadow of PoeEdgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. Similarly, there were many who were in turn influenced by Poe’s... Read more

Like Swimming

By: Ryan W. Bradley

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Ryan W. Bradley takes listeners into the world of blue-collar Alaska, reflecting on all that is unique about the rough and untamed state while touching on the basic truths about what it means to be human. In “Like Swimming,” an aging construction worker copes with memory issues and his own mortality while showing a newcomer the ropes. Read more

Love and Death in the Moose League

By: Ryan W. Bradley

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the collection Nothing but the Dead and DyingDuring his years in the majors, Floyd Patterson had pitched for everyone—Oakland, Cleveland, Cincinnati, even the Marlins. Now he’s an Anchorage Lumberjack, and no one, perhaps not even Patterson himself, has any idea what the hell he’s doing toeing the rubber in Alaska’s Moose League. But when... Read more

The Long Grass

By: Ryan W. Bradley

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Ryan W. Bradley takes listeners into the world of blue-collar Alaska, reflecting on all that is unique about the rough and untamed state while touching on the basic truths about what it means to be human. In “The Long Grass,” a young man struggles with the expectations of becoming a man and receiving his father’s approval. Read more

Water Never Hurt a Man

By: Walter D. Edmonds

Narrated by: Mark Turetsky

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story pulled from Seven American Stories, and originally published in Harper’s in 1930, is a classic of historical fiction. Read more

Seven American Stories

By: Walter D. Edmonds

Narrated by: Mark Turetsky

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection features seven tales inspired by America’s colorful history, from colonial times to the early twentieth century, including the Newbery Medal winner The Matchlock Gun.In The Matchlock Gun, young Edward must protect his family from marauding Indians when his father is called away. In Two Logs Crossing, John Haskell spends two harsh... Read more

In the Country

By: Mia Alvar

Narrated by: Nancy Wu & Don Castro

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere—and sometimes turning... Read more

Unti Wilde Novella #2

By: Lori Wilde

Narrated by: TBD

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Bitter of Tongue

By: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Torrance Coombs

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When Simon is kidnapped by the fey, he’s amazed to find a friend in former Shadowhunter Mark Blackthorn. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

After Simon is kidnapped by faeries (why is he always kidnapped?), he uncovers rumors of a secret weapon Sebastian left behind for the faerie queen. He must escape the Fey, relying... Read more