Short Stories audiobooks

Always Be You

By: RoAnna Sylver

Narrated by: RoAnna Sylver

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight years before the events of Chameleon Moon, Book 1, Regan was just beginning to feel secure in his new life. He doesn't know many things for certain, even his place in Parole as it hangs in a fragile balance far above an ever-burning fire. But he has no doubts about how he feels about Rowan (who appears in the short story The Library Ghost... Read more

How to Love a Jamaican

By: Alexia Arthurs

Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Adenrele Ojo, Dominic Hoffman &...

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith

An O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl’s Pick

Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to... Read more

The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Matt Montanez

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, comic masterpieces of all time, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, in 1895. Considered one of the greatest THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is a farce, playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men. Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who bend the truth in order to add... Read more

Days of Awe

By: A.M. Homes

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“With dark humor and sharp dialogue, Homes plumbs the depths of everyday American anxieties.” —Time

A razor-sharp story collection from the "furiously good" A.M. Homes, author of the forthcoming novel The Unfolding (Zadie Smith, bestselling author of Swing Time).

With her signature humor and compassion, A.M. Homes exposes the heart of an uneasy... Read more

Cowboy's Reckoning

By: B.J. Daniels

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrets and seduction thrive in Montana in this thrilling new novella from New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels Billie Dee Rhodes moved to Gilt Edge, Montana, from Texas in search of a new start, and she found it in a cook-wanted sign in the window of the Stagecoach Saloon. She jokes that she's looking for a cowboy and love, and when... Read more

Eveningland

By: Michael Knight

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In his powerful new short story cycle, Alabama-born Michael Knight illuminates the everyday beauty and heartache of life along the shores of serene, history-haunted Mobile Bay in the days leading up to a powerful hurricane "Michael Knight is more than a master of the short story. He knows the true pace of life and does not cheat it, all the... Read more

Beasts and Children

By: Amy Parker

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Lorrie Moore, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Rebecca Lee, this debut story collection cuts into the sometimes dark heart of the American family From the tense territory of a sagging, grand porch in Texas to a gated community in steamy Thailand to a lonely apartment in nondescript suburbia, these linked stories unwind the lives of... Read more

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

By: Helen Oyeyemi

Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek & Bahni Turpin

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. Fox comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories. Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret-Oyeyemi's keys not only... Read more

The Unfinished World

By: Amber Sparks

Narrated by: Ali Ahn, David Aaron Baker, Jane Cramer, Adam G...

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A highly anticipated collection of wildly imaginative short stories from "one of contemporary fiction's true mad scientists" (Necessary Fiction). In the weird and wonderful tradition of Kelly Link and Karen Russell, Amber Sparks's dazzling new collection bursts forth with stories that render the apocalyptic and otherworldly hauntingly familiar.... Read more

She

By: Michelle Latiolais

Narrated by: Nina Alvamar

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A nameless fifteen-year-old runs away to Los Angeles, seeking life beyond the harsh constraints of her evangelical upbringing. She is the narrative of her passage, from her escape on a bus through her quiet, determined progress across the city's unforgiving terrain. The journey takes her into and around the lives of Angelinos from all walks: a... Read more

East, West

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Steven Crossley

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A rickshaw driver dreams of being a Bombay movie star; Indian diplomats, who as childhood friends hatched Star Trek fantasies, must boldly go into a hidden universe of conspiracy and violence; and Hamlet's jester is caught up in murderous intrigues. In Rushdie's hybrid world, an Indian guru can be a redheaded Welshman, while Christopher Columbus... Read more

Chance Developments

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Jamie Jackson, John Keating, Robert Ian Mackenz...

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words but an old photograph can inspire many more. In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white photography and imagines the stories behind them.Who were those people, what were their stories, why are they smiling,... Read more

Homesick for Another World

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan & Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time

Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015.

Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle,... Read more

A Tree or a Person or a Wall

By: Matt Bell

Narrated by: Karen Chilton, Andrea Gallo, Andrew Garman & T....

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Tree or a Person or a Wall gives us Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and acute takes on the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world. A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man... Read more

Summer Days and Summer Nights

By: Stephanie Perkins

Narrated by: Jessica Almasy, Michael Bakkensen, Cherise Boot...

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve romantic summer stories by twelve bestselling young adult authors, edited by Stephanie Perkins Maybe it's the long, lazy days, or maybe it's the heat making everyone a little bit crazy. Whatever the reason, summer is the perfect time for love to bloom. Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by twelve bestselling young... Read more

Exemplary Novels

By: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra & Edith Grossman

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 21 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic, on the 400th anniversary of his death The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent... Read more

The Patriots

By: Sana Krasikov

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren & George Guidall

Length: 22 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A debut novel by acclaimed story writer Sana Krasikov that examines the effects of the Cold War on three generations of one Jewish American family, from the 1930s to the present. Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, to a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the... Read more

Bit Rot

By: Douglas Coupland

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A thought-provoking, binge-worthy new collection of essays, stories, and musings from Douglas Coupland, Bit Rot explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and it is a literary gem of the digital age "Bit rot" is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can... Read more

Guru Bones

By: Carolyn Haines

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Zinnia, Mississippi, rolls out the red carpet for controversial food activist Priya Karsan. When the event turns bizarre - and downright deadly - PI partners Sarah Booth and Tinkie are on the case. But it's the detective agency's four-legged gumshoes, Sweetie Pie, Chablis, and Pluto, who save the day. Read more

Bones on the Bayou

By: Carolyn Haines

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Christmas is six days away-and Sarah Booth Delaney has her hands full! To honor a group of international investors, Shaw, Mississippi, resurrects the old custom of drifting miniature, lighted Christmas floats down Silver Bayou. The Italian delegation from Venice may bring much-needed new jobs and commercial opportunities to this small,... Read more

Mary's Christmas

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the preeminent figures in the realm of mystery fiction, New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King is perhaps most widely celebrated for her works featuring the amiable, if often contentious, partnership between Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. From the collection Mary Russell's War, "Mary's Christmas" and "Stately Holmes" deliver... Read more

Stately Holmes

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of celebrated novels featuring the unique partnership between Mary Russell and the inimitable Sherlock Holmes. None other than Lee Child, himself no stranger to the bestseller list, has described King's beloved series as "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today."... Read more

Bones and Arrows

By: Carolyn Haines

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today bestselling author Carolyn Haines is a recipient of the Harper Lee Award and the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence. In "Bones and Arrows," a red-hot Valentine's party turns into a spellbinding-and dangerous-mystery for the Delaney Detective Agency. Ready for her own bed at Dahlia House, Sarah Booth reluctantly agrees to stay... Read more

Hits and Misses

By: Simon Rich

Narrated by: Simon Rich

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer's real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social media influencers and reality TV stars.

Simon Rich is "one of the funniest writers in America" (Daily Beast) -- a humorist who draws comparisons to... Read more