Short Stories audiobooks

Esther Kreindel the Second

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Gimpel the Fool, and Other Stories is infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes all of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s work. Theodore Bikel reads this tale in classic Yiddish storyteller cadence, injecting special warmth and resonance. Read more

The Spinoza of Market Street

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Spinoza of Market Street" is yet another masterful short story from literary great Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story is set in Warsaw in the days leading up to World War I. There Dr. Nahum Fischelson lives alone in an attic room overlooking Market Street. From on high he observes the crowd below, showing equal disdain for merchants and... Read more

The Black Wedding

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Gimpel the Fool, and Other Stories is infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes all of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s work. Theodore Bikel reads this tale in classic Yiddish storyteller cadence, injecting special warmth and resonance. Read more

Gimpel the Fool

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely considered one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most notable works of short fiction, "Gimpel the Fool" was originally written in Yiddish. It was later translated into English by Saul Bellow and appeared in the 1953 edition of Partisan Review. The story, a parable, tells of a foolish, unlucky baker named Gimpel, who is constantly tricked and... Read more

Different Kinds of Dead, and Other Tales

By: Ed Gorman

Narrated by: Rex Linn, Gabrielle de Cuir, Arte Johnson, Moir...

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of short stories displays Ed Gorman’s talents as a masterful storyteller across a range of genres.A mysterious and beautiful girl who teaches arrogant young men about true love, a lonely traveling salesman who learns that his passenger is Death, children who can absorb the psychic pain of their parents, a desperately pursued... Read more

Madame Zero

By: Sarah Hall

Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most accomplished British writers working today, the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Wolf Border, comes a unique and arresting collection of short fiction that is both disturbing and dazzling.Sarah Hall has been hailed as ""one of the most significant and exciting of Britain’s young novelists"" (The Guardian), a writer... Read more

Beneath the Skin

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of short stories featuring Sam Hunter, from bestselling author Jonathan MaberrySam Hunter is a bit of an animal. He’s a former Twin Cities cop who lost his badge because of excessive force. Abusive husbands, child molesters, and other lowlifes wound up looking like they’d been mauled by a dog—or a wolf.Now Sam is a low-rent PI in... Read more

The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren

By: Nelson Algren

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

O. Henry and National Book Award-winning author Nelson Algren has inspired thousands with his tough, gritty accounts of urban life. Written over the course of four decades, this collection of 12 stories centers around Depression-era Texas. Characterized by small-town strife, political corruption and frontier-style justice, each tale is a... Read more

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

By: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Jo...

Narrated by: Various

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling collection of short stories chronicling the adventures of Simon Lewis as he trains to become a Shadowhunter is now available in print with ten brand-new comic illustrations!

Simon Lewis has been a human and a vampire, and now he is becoming a Shadowhunter. The events of City of Heavenly Fire left him... Read more

Three More Jack Reacher Novellas

By: Lee Child

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Lee Child once again demonstrates his mastery of the thriller genre with an unbeatable collection of three Jack Reacher novellas and six short stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author

Too Much Time: In this original novella featuring Jack Reacher after his time in the... Read more

Christmas Days

By: Jeanette Winterson

Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson & Imogen Church

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmastime, and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny, and bold tales.For the Twelve Days of Christmas—a time of celebration, sharing, and giving—she offers these twelve plus one: a personal story of her own Christmas memories.These tales open a... Read more

Razor's Edge

By: Sylvia Day

Narrated by: Valerie Rogers

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From Sylvia Day, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Crossfire novels, comes Razor’s Edge, a novella of the Shadow Stalkers—where hearts are laid bare, where desire is a risk, and where love is born from the most intimate secrets…

It wasn’t her fault he was strung out from wanting her… 

It was a cool night in Carmel but for Deputy US... Read more

Piranha to Scurfy

By: Ruth Rendell

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of Harm Done and A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell has written dozens of gripping works under her own name and as Barbara Vine. She has received three Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America and four Dagger Awards from England's Crime Writers Association. How frightening can a book be? Ambrose Ribbon,... Read more

Ten Stories by Katherine Mansfield

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Although Katherine Mansfield was born in New Zealand in 1888, she spent much of her short life in England and on the Continent. As she wrote about the privileged worlds she encountered there, her stories quickly attracted literary attention. Prelude was hand-published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press. Readers today still... Read more

In Tune with Love

By: Amy Matayo

Narrated by: Amber Quick

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.April knows her job as maid of honor is to fulfill her sister’s every wish—whatever the bride wants, she will have. Unless it involves Jack Vaughn.April Quinn... Read more

Love Takes the Cake

By: Betsy St. Amant

Narrated by: Kristy Ragland

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.She’s known for her delicious cakes, but there’s no recipe for dealing with the new man in her life.Charlotte Cantrell is always the baker; never the bride.... Read more

Picture Perfect Love

By: Melissa McClone

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr & Amber Quick

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.When image becomes everything, it’s up to love to refocus the heart. Photographer Jenna Harrison wants every bride and groom to look picture perfect on their... Read more

All Dressed Up in Love

By: Ruth Logan Herne

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr & Windy Lanzl

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Tara walks into Elena’s Bridal and finds her dream job—and a handsome man to match. A third-year law student, Tara Simonetti just needs a job to pay the bills and put food on the table. After her father’s untimely death, she’s determined to give her small hometown what he didn’t have: a good, honest lawyer, but law school isn’t cheap. When she... Read more

Never a Bridesmaid

By: Janice Thompson

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.Mari wants her sister Crystal’s wedding to be perfect. But a poorly-chosen maid of honor may turn it into a disaster.Mari Hays’s older sister Crystal is getting... Read more

I Hope You Dance

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Windy Lanzl

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Will a sworn bachelor determined to stay single fall in love with his dance teacher?Grant Nichols is a genius in the kitchen and a klutz on the dance floor. But his friend’s wedding is shaping up to be a shindig the likes of which Kings Meadow has never seen—including dancing. Lots of dancing. Then he learns that a local dance teacher, Skye... Read more

A November Bride

By: Beth K. Vogt

Narrated by: Amber Quick

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

There's more than just leaves falling this autumn! A November Bride is a heartwarming romance novella that will captivate your heart and make you say 'I do' to love. It's When Harry Met Sally meets You've Got Mail in a cozy fall setting.Can a decades-long friendship marred by two romantic missteps ever lead to happily ever after?Sadie... Read more

A Season to Wed

By: Cindy Kirk, Rachel Hauck & Cheryl Wyatt

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr, Kristy Ragland & Amber Quick

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.Love at Mistletoe Inn by Cindy KirkSometimes the road to happiness is paved with youthful mistakes.Ten years after what she thought was her almost-wedding, Hope... Read more

Love at Mistletoe Inn

By: Cindy Kirk

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.Sometimes the road to happiness is paved with youthful mistakes.Hope Prentiss didn’t go to the Harmony High School senior prom. Instead, she and John Burke drove... Read more

Love on a Deadline

By: Kathryn Springer

Narrated by: Crestina Hardie

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.MacKenzie thought writing wedding stories was beneath her journalistic abilities. Until one love story rekindled an old flame and opened her heart to love once... Read more