Short Stories audiobooks

A Perfect Universe

By: Scott O’Connor

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Thérèse Plummer

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Scott O’Connor’s novels have been hailed as “astonishing” (Library Journal), and “so insistently stirring, you want to lean in close to catch every word” (New York Times Book Review). Now, from the author of Untouchable and Half World comes A Perfect Universe, a piercingly emotional cycle of stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit... Read more

The Best of Bova, Vol. 3

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Ben Bova, Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Gab...

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The third and final volume of the very best of Ben Bova, creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour science fiction series, six-time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society—a grand master of science fiction storytelling. These stories span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career.Here are tales of... Read more

The Teton Bunch

By: Les Savage

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“Town of Twenty Triggers” opens this new trio of short novels by Les Savage Jr., marking their first appearance in book form. He was known only as the Joker, a portly, chuckling man with a bland smile, a poker face, and an amazing ability to make a deck of cards perform any trick he desired. His traveling companion is Emmet Pierce, a Texan fast... Read more

Toss the Bouquet

By: Ruth Logan Herne, Amy Matayo & Janice Thompson

Narrated by: Amber Quick, Julie Lyles Carr & Windy Lanzl

Length: 7 hours 38 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.All Dressed Up in Loveby Ruth Logan HerneTara walks into Elena’s Bridal and finds her dream job—and a handsome man to match. Greg Elizondo is working at the shop,... Read more

The Adventures of Angus the Mouse: Remastered (Special Edition)

By: Montice Harmon

Narrated by: Christopher Hernandez

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventures of Angus the Mouse is a delightful children’s book written by bestselling author, Montice Harmon. Growing up in a large family, Angus did not fit into the family niche, and his siblings did not include him in play. On one bright, sunny day, Angus and his mother venture into town. He often liked to go off on grand adventures into... Read more

Flights

By: Olga Tokarczuk

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)

"A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time

"A beautifully fragmented... Read more

Fresh Ink

By: Lamar Giles

Narrated by: Guy Lockard, Kim Mai Guest, Bahni Turpin, Eric ...

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

All it takes to rewrite the rules is a little fresh ink in this remarkable YA anthology from thirteen of the most recognizable, diverse authors writing today including Nicola Yoon, Jason Reynolds, Melissa de la Cruz, and many more, and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books. This collection features ten short stories, a graphic... Read more

The Accusation

By: Bandi

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The Accusation is a deeply moving and eye-opening work of fiction that paints a powerful portrait of life under the North Korean regime. Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The... Read more

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story and instantly became both the recognized master of the form and one of our best-loved and most widely read fiction writers. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of... Read more

Cathedral

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. The twelve stories in Cathedral mark a turning point in Carver's work and "overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.... Read more

Where I'm Calling From

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 16 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We... Read more

Beginners

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the original manuscript of Raymond Carver's seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential—and the pieces in What We Talk About . . ., which portray the gritty loves and... Read more

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award–winning film Birdman, Raymond Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a haunting meditation on love, loss, and... Read more

Scary Old Sex

By: Arlene Heyman

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with the decline of her mother, once glamorous and still commanding; their fraught relationship causes... Read more

The Fat Artist and Other Stories

By: Benjamin Hale

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Prize-winning author Benjamin Hale's fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling. In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the seven stories in this collection are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love,... Read more

Brief Cases

By: Jim Butcher

Narrated by: James Marsters, Jim Butcher, Cassandra Campbell...

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City's favorite wizard.

The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue--and creatures of all supernatural stripes. And you'll make their intimate acquaintance as Harry delves into the dark side of truth,... Read more

Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

By: Alissa Nutting

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this darkly comic and surreal collection from celebrated author Alissa Nutting, misfit women scramble for agency in a series of uncanny circumstances.Throughout these breathtakingly creative seventeen stories spread across time, space, and differing planes of reality, we encounter a host of women and girls in a wide range of unusual jobs. A... Read more

Mythic Imagination

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he was the engaging professor who brought mythology into people’s living rooms through his conversations with Bill Moyers, before he became known as the thinker whose ideas influenced Star Wars, and before his now-beloved phrase “follow your bliss” entered the popular lexicon, Joseph Campbell was a young man who tried his hand at writing... Read more

Rivers

By: Martin Michael Driessen

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A critically acclaimed, award-winning collection drawing sparkling prose from the inspiration of three rivers passing through different times and places.On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature’s tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish:... Read more

The Radical Element

By: Jessica Spotswood (Editor)

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In an anthology of revolution and resistance, a sisterhood of YA writers shines a light on a century and a half of heroines on the margins and in the intersections.

To respect yourself, to love yourself, should not have to be a radical decision. And yet it remains as challenging for an American girl to make today as it was in 1927 on the steps of... Read more

Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves

By: Maggie Schein

Narrated by: Janis Ian

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of fables in the literary tradition of Italo Calvino, Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves brings together medicine men, monks, immortals, witches, seekers, souls in various stages of their cycles in and out of lived-life, and the occasional talking animal, all searching for the meaning of it all and each other.Each fable is a... Read more

Grammy's Secret Recipe (Strawberry Top Short Mystery 1)

By: CC Dragon

Narrated by: Lauri Jo Daniels

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When good Southern girls get divorced, they go back home to Mama...

Stacey "Strawberry Top" Fields is home again in small town Willowbrook, TN. Divorced, she's already earned her amateur sleuth badge by proving her super rich ex-husband cheated on her (and getting her share of the money per the pre-nup). A prize winning cook and blue ribbon... Read more

Behind the Lines

By: Ian Patrick

Narrated by: Michael Richard

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

These eight short stories are works of fiction, but reflect the author's real personal experiences while undergoing compulsory military training during his youth in apartheid South Africa. The stories are all based on real events but the characters are the products of creative imagination (although rooted in reality). Readers will enjoy a range... Read more

Active Reader

By: Mark Leslie

Narrated by: Eric Moore

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Three stories which explore the darker side of the world of books. In a style reminiscent of the old "Twilight Zone" television show, these three tales will take the book loving reader to a place that is somewhat familiar yet frighteningly surreal and disturbing.Active Reader
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