Short Stories audiobooks

Revenge

By: Yoko Ogawa

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith & Johanna Parker

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a... Read more

Fun with Problems

By: Robert Stone

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is "one of our greatest living writers" (Los Angeles Times). The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length—some are almost novellas, others no more than a page—but all share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex, and drugs that has helped Stone... Read more

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 23 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert E. Howard, renowned creator of Conan the barbarian, was also a master at conjuring tales of hair-raising horror. In a career spanning only twelve years, Howard wrote more than a hundred stories, with his most celebrated work appearing in Weird Tales, the preeminent pulp magazine of the era.



In this collection of Howard's greatest horror... Read more

The Bloody Crown of Conan

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 17 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In his hugely influential and tempestuous career, Robert E. Howard created the genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery—and brought to life one of fantasy's boldest and most enduring figures: Conan the Cimmerian, reaver, slayer, barbarian, king.



This volume gathers together three of Howard's longest and most famous Conan stories:



THE... Read more

Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren Groff presents nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman.



In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a... Read more

Nothing with Strings

By: Bailey White

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio's All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time.



With wit and charm, White writes about an almost-gone little... Read more

Controlled Burn

By: Scott Wolven

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Once or twice a decade, an unknown short-story writer blazes onto the literary scene with work that is thrilling and new. Scott Wolven is such a talent, and his raw, blistering tales of hard-bitten convicts, dodgy informers, and men running from the law make for "the most exciting, authentic collection of short stories I have read in years,"... Read more

Doctorow: Collected Stories

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: John Rubinstein, Jesse Bernstein & Joshua Swanson

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A superb collection of fifteen stories by an American master, E. L. Doctorow—the author of Ragtime, The March, The Book of Daniel, and Billy Bathgate
 
He has been called “a national treasure” by George Saunders. Doctorow’s great topic, said Don DeLillo, is “the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of... Read more

The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times BestsellerDo you believe in magic? Can you imagine a war between wizards? An exciting journey in an airship or down in a submarine? Would you like to meet the fastest truncheon in the Wild West?The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner is the second fabulously funny short-story collection from the late acclaimed storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett,... Read more

What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?

By: Avi

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Christina Moore & Johnny Heller

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Eve is haunted by her dead cats, Willie is not content to turn a blind eye to suffering, and Maria carries on lengthy conversations with a silent caller. Theirs are the odd, but strangely realistic stories you will find in this collection. Avi's stories address real concerns in a way young people can relate to. Always entertaining, they broach... Read more

Trajectory

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Arthur Morey, Fred Sanders & Mar...

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre.

Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In... Read more

Men Without Women

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers" (Barack Obama).

Across seven... Read more

The Thing Around Your Neck

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun), with “prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her “the... Read more

The Foundling

By: Lloyd Alexander

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A companion book to The Chronicles of Prydain, this collection of short stories revisits beloved characters and reveals more about the history of the magical land of Prydain.

Here, readers will find Dallben, destined to be an enchanter; Angharad, a princess of the House of Llyr; Kadwyr, the rascal crow; and Medwyn, the mystical protector of all... Read more

The Dinner Party

By: Joshua Ferris

Narrated by: Zach Roe, Chris Kayser, Nicholas Tecosky & Jenn...

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year: The first collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed, prize-winning author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of... Read more

Christmas with an Angel

By: Debbie Mason

Narrated by: Becket Royce

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this cozy Christmas story, learn whether Michael and Shay will get a second chance at love under the mistletoe.USA Today bestseller Debbie Mason's Christmas short story featuring characters from the Harmony Harbor series. Read more

Overclocked

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: various narrators, Lloyd James, Nicola Barber, ...

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Now available for the first time with two additional stories!Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of... Read more

Rover’s Tales

By: Michael Z. Lewin

Narrated by: Michael Z. Lewin

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of short stories, Michael Z. Lewin gives Rover, his canine narrator, a voice that speaks for dogs everywhere. He endows Rover with enough intelligence, spunk, and compassion to combat the injustices committed against his fellow canines by fate, unthinking humans, and even other dogs.Rover is a dog with street smarts, a bit of... Read more

Ellen and the Barber

By: Frank O'Rourke

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Vividly evoking a small mid-west town during the Great Depression and World War II, Ellen and the Barber introduces us to three strong and surprising young women and the men in their lives: Ellen, who has no good reason to deny her natural instincts; Miriam, torn between the promise of a loving future and the demands of family and home; and... Read more

The Lottery, and Seven Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

Narrated by: Carol Jordan Stewart

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Who can forget the first time they heard the story? Considered one of the masterpieces of American literature, “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. Since then it has become one of the most anthologized stories in American literature. Powerful and haunting, subtle and horrifying, the tale demonstrates... Read more

Going to Meet the Man

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“There’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads above water. It may be the heroin that... Read more

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, and Other Stories

By: Nadine Gordimer

Narrated by: David Colacci & Susan Ericksen

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

In this collection of new stories, Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. In the title story, a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in... Read more

Gimpel the Fool, and Other Stories

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

These four stories are infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes all of Isaac Bashevis Singer's work. Theodore Bikel reads these wise and funny tales in classic Yiddish storyteller cadence, injecting special warmth and resonance. The tales include "Gimpel the Fool," "Esther Kreindel the Second," "The Spinoza... Read more

Great Classic Ghost Stories

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of short ghost stories includes some of the best-known classics in the genre, as well as some that may be new to ghost story fans. This recording includes: “The Damned Thing,” by Ambrose Bierce; “The Empty House,” by Algernon Blackwood;“The Consequences,” by Willa Cather; “How It Happened,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; “A Ghost,”... Read more