Short Stories audiobooks

The Zahir - Abridged

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Jamie Glover

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover.Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her... Read more

One More for the Road

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than fifty years Ray Bradbury has regaled us with wonders, enabled us to view from fresh perspectives the world we inhabit, and see others we never dreamed existed.Here are eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected stories -- proof positive that Bradbury's magic is as potent as ever.Sip the... Read more

The Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Audio Collection - Abridged

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. himself reads from his most celebrated works: Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and three complete stories from Welcome to the Monkey House. Read more

Jordan County

By: Shelby Foote

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Shelby Foote undertook his epic history of the Civil War he wrote this fictional chronicle—“a landscape in narrative”—of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations.The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the... Read more

Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: various narrators, Bruce Blau, David Thorn, Jim...

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young... Read more

The Margaret Wild Collection

By: Margaret Wild

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Margaret Wild is widely regarded as one of Australia's most talented and best-loved writers of picture books. In this delightful audio collection, three Margaret Wild picture books are beautifully narrated and produced, and include original captivating musical scores. Read more

A Long Way From Chicago

By: Richard Peck

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town?

August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy.
August 1930: The Cowgilll boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of... Read more

Past Perfect, Present Tense

By: Richard Peck

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Though Richard Peck is best known as a novelist, he has been writing short stories—rousing, provocative, and thoroughly entertaining—throughout his career. “Priscilla and the Wimps,” his first, is perhaps the most-read children’s short story of all time. Others have inspired his award-winning novels: A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down... Read more

The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection - Abridged

By: Dorothy Parker

Narrated by: Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Alfre Woodar...

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A variety of work from one of the most quotable of all twentieth-century authors—the inimitable Dorothy ParkerAuthor, poet, screenwriter and outstanding member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was known for her quick wit, keen observations, and remarkable insight into the human condition. Regarded as brilliant, but known to... Read more

Berenstain Bears' Stories - Abridged

By: Stan Berenstain

Narrated by: Stan Berenstain & Jan Berenstain

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A special audio containing 11 favorite Berenstain Bears stories!One day, Stan and Jan Berenstain were captured by a family of bears.It was a family of three—an overenthusiastic Papa whose high opinion of himself was exceeded only by his ability to do silly things (often placing himself in jeopardy from bees, skunks, low-hanging branches, whales,... Read more

Raggedy Andy Stories

By: Johnny Gruelle

Narrated by: Swoosie Kurtz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This unabridged recording contains all the original Raggedy Andy stories as Andy is reunited with his sister, Raggedy Ann, and brings a dance, a pillow fight, and a taffy pull into the lives of the other dolls.Andy bravely ventures into the gutter to find the penny dolls, ""cures"" the French doll, and encounters the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus,... Read more

Ireland

By: Frank Delaney

Narrated by: Frank Delaney

Length: 19 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dramatic, adventurous, heroic, romantic. . . these historical chronicles, legends, myths, tall tales and fables, featuring warriors, kings, monks, explorers and clever common folk, imaginatively tell the history of Ireland.”  — Philadelphia InquirerThis New York Times bestselling epic is an unforgettable tour de force that marries the intimate,... 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

Bad Dirt

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Annie Proulx follows the success of Close Range with another remarkable collection of stories. Bad Dirt is filled with the vivid characters for which Proulx has become known. In "The Contest," the male population of Elk Tooth, Wyoming, vows to put aside their razors for two seasons, ante up ten dollars each, and wait to see who has the longest... Read more

Ruiseñor Y La Rosa, El Cumpleaños De La Infanta

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Carlos Zambrano

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Una fábula alegórica del amor, el sacrificio y el egoísmo. Al igual que con todos los cuentos de Wilde encarna fuertes valores morales y se cuenta con una efervescencia semejante a la de las 1001 noches.

Es la historia de un estudiante lovestruck que debe proporcionar su amada con una rosa roja con el fin de ganar su corazón. Un ruiseñor oír su... Read more

Hans Christian Andersen Classic Stories - Abridged

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Diane Wolkstein

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Newly re-mastered for digital formats, this is the definitive recording of Hans Christian Andersen's six best-loved stories. Included are "Hans Clodhopper", "The Goblin and the Grocer", "The Ugly Duckling", The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Nightingale", and "Dance, Dance, Dolly Mine". Narrator Diane Wolkstein, the artistic director of the Hans... Read more

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

By: Yann Martel

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso, Jeff Woodman, David Ledoux, Joh...

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

Men and Cartoons

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem, David Aaron Baker, Sandra Bern...

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new listeners-- a smorgasbord of fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles. Lethem is a trailblazer fo a new kind of literary fiction, sampling high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly... Read more

Raggedy Ann Stories

By: Johnny Gruelle

Narrated by: Cicely Tyson

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

On this unabridged recording, listeners will hear all the original Raggedy Ann stories, as they follow Raggedy Ann to Marcella's nursery and watch her quickly become the leader of the dolls -- and the world. After learning a lesson from a naughty raid on the pantry, Raggedy Ann strives to be good -- and succeeds. She and her friends rescue Fido,... Read more

I, Richard

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Hailed by The New York Times as ""a master of the British Mystery,"" award-winning author Elizabeth George is cherished by readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her first collection of short stories is an extraordinary offering that deftly explores the lengths to which people will go to get what they want most ... In these five original tales,... Read more

Hit List - Abridged

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Lawrence Block

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

Keller is a regular guy, a solid citizen. He goes to the movies, watches the tube, browses the art galleries, and works diligently on his stamp collection. But every now and then a call from the breezily efficient Dot sends him off to kill a total stranger. He takes a plane, rents a car, finds a hotel room, and gets back before the body is... Read more

Uncovered!

By: Paul Jennings

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Stare if you dare, into Paul Jennings' wild world. How will you stop a thousand rabbits breeding in your bedroom? Who would want to collect toilet rolls? Could you do it? Fifty dollars if you don't speak for a day. Why would an ear grow on the wall? Nine stories that you would never dream of. Read more

Uncanny!

By: Paul Jennings

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Stare, if you dare, into Paul Jennings' wild world. Can your dog fly? Could a tattoo run away? What's it like inside a dead whale? How could a remote control work on people? Nine stories that you would never dream of. Read more

Unbelievable!

By: Paul Jennings

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Stare if you dare, into Paul Jennings' wild world. What happens when you grow younger? Where do ghosts sit their exams? How would you cope if a million birds did it on you? Where did the eyes in the bottle come from? Nine stories that you would never dream of. Read more