Short Stories audiobooks

The Bridegroom

By: Ha Jin

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award for his celebrated novel Waiting, comes this collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful.In the title story, the head of security at a factory is shocked, first when the handsomest... Read more

Los boys

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Yamil Ureña

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora la ópera prima de Junot Díaz. Premio Pulitzer 2008. La mejor literatura actual en versión audiolibro. Junot Díaz hizo su entrada en la escena literaria con esta colección de diez relatos que se desplazan de los barrios de la RepúblicaDominicana a los suburbios de Nueva Jersey. Díaz, que según Newsweek combina «la mirada objetiva de... Read more

Awayland

By: Ramona Ausubel

Narrated by: Various

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood with an electric mix of humor and emotion.

Acclaimed for the grace, wit, and magic of her novels, Ramona Ausubel introduces us to a geography both fantastic and familiar in eleven new stories, some of them previously published in The New Yorker and... Read more

Best of the South

By: Shannon Revenel

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, Julia Gibson, Sally Darling, ...

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Continuing a two-decade tradition of excellence in literature, New Stories from the South presents the 20 best stories of from 1996 to 2005 selected by Anne Tyler. With such authors as Lee Smith, Judy Troy, William Gay, Stephen Coyne, Max Steele, Jill McCorkle and Chris Offutt, Best of the South elegantly portrays an old man's struggle with... Read more

Guardian Angels and Other Monsters

By: Daniel H. Wilson

Narrated by: Various

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life.

In "All Kinds of Proof," a down-and-out drunk makes the unlikeliest of friends when he is hired to train a mail-carrying... Read more

Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: F. Murray Abraham, Edoardo Ballerini, Marisa Ca...

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to life by Academy Award®-winning actor F. Murray Abraham and an ensemble cast of narrators, and featuring original music by Michael Bacon, this collection contains Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved fairy tales, as well as a selection of lesser-known favorites.
 
Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore and fairy... Read more

The Island Dwellers

By: Jen Silverman

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Miranda July, Rebecca Lee, and Mary Gaitskill, a debut short-story collection that is a mesmerizing blend of wit, transgression, and heart. 

A passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over whose new fling is more exotic. A Russian migrant in Tokyo agonizes over the money her lover accepts from a yakuza. A dead... Read more

Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

Narrated by: Helen Johns, Jilly Bond & Lucy Paterson

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Flowers in the Rain & Other Stories collects sixteen of #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher’s romantic tales set across Britain from the Scottish countryside to the city of London.

Rosamunde Pilcher...

She makes you laugh...
She makes you cry...
She takes you to a world of hope and romance...
And into the lives of people... Read more

Scream and Scream Again!

By: R.L. Stine, Megan Abbott, Chris Grabenstein, He...

Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo, Almarie Guerra & P.J. Ochlan

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A harrowing array of scary stories that all have one thing in common: each either begins or ends with a scream!R.L. Stine—the godfather of Goosebumps—and some of the most popular authors today bring an unrivaled mastery of all things fearsome, frightening, and fantabulous to this terrifying anthology of all-new scary short stories.Scream and... Read more

Beautiful Days

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, Stephen Graybill & Caitlin Kelly

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize–winning “Undocumented Alien”.The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in... Read more

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

F. Scott Fitzgerald makes antebellum Baltimore his setting for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning “in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less... Read more

The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

Narrated by: Helen Johns, Jilly Bond & Lucy Paterson

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher invites listeners to share the full spectrum of life’s moods and emotions through the thirteen stories gathered here in her very first collection of short fiction.

From a child’s first knowledge of death, through city and country, to an elderly woman's newfound freedom, Pilcher’s The Blue... Read more

Madness from the Inconstant Moon

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Madness from the Inconstant Moon is a collection of early short science fiction works by Larry Niven, the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Ringworld series.“All the Myriad Ways” (1968)“Passerby” (1969)“For a Foggy Night” (1968)“Wait It Out” (1968)“The Jigsaw Man” (1967)“Not Long before the End” (1969)“Unfinished Story No. 1”... Read more

¿Qué me quieres, amor?

By: Manuel Rivas

Narrated by: Juan Magraner & Marina Viñals

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

«Verdaderas piezas maestras de nuestra narrativa contemporánea. Y eso muy pocos escritores lo consiguen.»
Diario 16 Escucha ahora el premio de Narrativa Torrente Ballester y
Premio Nacional de Narrativa Un viajante, vendedor de lencería, espera ansioso al volante la reaparición del hijo huido y recibe la milagrosa ayuda de un héroe del rock. El... Read more

We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories

By: C. Robert Cargill

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin & Vikas Adam

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed author of Sea of Rust and Queen of the Dark Things comes a hair-raising collection of short fiction that illuminates the strange, humorous, fantastical, and downright diabolical that tantalize and terrorize us: demons, monsters, zombie dinosaurs, and Death itself.In the novella ""The Soul Thief’s Son"" C. Robert... Read more

The Best of Richard Matheson

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: various narrators, Donald Corren, Peter Berkrot...

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The first career retrospective of terrifying stories by “one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century” (Ray Bradbury), as selected by award-winning author Victor LaValleAmong the greats of twentieth-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his sixteen... Read more

Sweet and Low

By: Nick White

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF SUMMER 2018 BY O Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, The Millions, Southern Living, POPSUGAR, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Review of Books

Praised by the Washington Post as "Tennessee Williams . . . transposed to the twenty-first-century South," Nick White returns with a stunning... Read more

The Business of Dying

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Narrated by: Traber Burns & Pam Ward

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected here are ten Western short stories by Richard S. Wheeler, the award-winning author who makes storytelling look easy.In “Mugs Birdsong’s Crime Academy,” celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found an academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways and means of lawlessness. “The Last Days of Dominic Prince” is the tragic tale of a... Read more

The Soulswimmer

By: Alphie McCourt

Narrated by: Alphie McCourt, Malachy McCourt, Jack O'Connell...

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Soulswimmer is a witty and insightful collection of stories, verses, and songs by Alphie McCourt, the youngest of the literary McCourt brothers famous for their Irish memoirs. Read more

Breathing In Rio

By: Alfred C. Martino

Narrated by: Arielle Jones

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Rio, a place of beauty, excitement, and wonder. A place where you are free to dance until your feet ache and sing until you can no more. A woman and her mother experience this and more during their visit to Brazil's most famous city. Read more

Good Trouble

By: Joseph O'Neill

Narrated by: Various

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterly collection of eleven stories about the way we live now from the best-selling author of Netherland.

From bourgeois facial-hair trends to parental sleep deprivation, Joseph O’Neill closely observes the mores of his characters, whose vacillations and second thoughts expose the mysterious pettiness, underlying violence, and, sometimes,... Read more

The Dark Country

By: Dennis Etchison

Narrated by: Dennis Etchison, Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de...

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Etchison’s fiction is justly famous for its creepy ambience, and explores the terrain mapped out by Philip K. Dick, Thomas Harris, and any number of black and white horror movies. This is his legendary first collection, carefully corrected by the author for this new edition. The title story won both the World Fantasy Award and the British... Read more

Four Stories

By: Matthew Wayne Selznick

Narrated by: Matthew Wayne Selznick

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The first short story collection from Matthew Wayne Selznick focuses on revelations of clarity and epiphanies of character in the face of emotional challenges.
Also included are brief essays exploring the formative experiences and memories that inspired each short story, making this collection Matthew Wayne Selznick's most personal creative... Read more

Major Arcana

By: RoAnna Sylver

Narrated by: RoAnna Sylver

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

IN WHICH: In 19th-Century Venice, Italy, A Very Cool (And Familiar) Witch Informs A Homicide Inspector That He’d Better Get Used To Vampire Stories. He's In One.
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Someone is murdering by night, and leaving the bodies to burn in rings of fire outside cathedral doors. Holy Inspector Giovanni is here to get to the bottom of the horrors by any... Read more