Short Stories audiobooks

The April 3rd Incident

By: Yu Hua

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to international fame, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature.
 
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Yu Hua and other... Read more

The Red Shoes

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Red Shoes, a peasant girl named Karen is adopted by a rich old lady and grows up vain and spoiled. She is so enamored of a new pair of red shoes that she wears them to church in spite of a warning to only wear black shoes there. She soon learns that ignoring that warning was a bad idea: a mysterious old soldier at the church charms the... Read more

A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. All those images and many more are inside this book, a new trade edition of 31 of Bradbury's most arresting tales-timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of... Read more

Captain Hawk

By: Scarlett Press

Narrated by: Juliana Solo

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Even the one-night stand was a mistake.When an old friend’s daughter shows up at my security firm, I can’t believe how long it’s been. He used to show me pictures of his little girl when we were in the Army together, but now Cori’s all grown up and in need of help.My comrade has gotten himself into trouble and is in need of a two man rescue... Read more

Death at Sea

By: Andrea Camilleri

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on the Sicilian coast, a collection of eight short stories featuring the young Inspector MontalbanoIn 1980s Vigàta, a restless Inspector Montalbano brings his bold investigative style to eight enthralling cases. From jilted lovers and deadly family affairs to assassination attempts and murders in unexpected places, Death at Sea is the... Read more

Black Enough

By: Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coleen Booth, Dhoni...

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Ron Butler

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.Black is...sisters... Read more

Evening in Paradise

By: Lucia Berlin

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia BerlinIn 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper’s Book Review named it one... Read more

Great Claus and Little Claus

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. This title is part of Andersen's Fairy Tales, Volume 2,... Read more

The Last Dream of the Old Oak

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. This title is part of Andersen's Fairy Tales, Volume 2,... Read more

The Snow Man

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. This title is part of Andersen's Fairy Tales, Volume 2,... Read more

Dancing Shadows, Tramping Hooves

By: Dianne Ascroft

Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Dancing Shadows, Tramping Hooves is a collection of half a dozen short stories. Tales of outsiders who discover they belong, a humorous slice of life yarn, heartwarming love stories and a tale of taming fear. The shadows are on the wall, in the heart and clouding a woman’s memories while tangible foes tramp through the physical landscape.
The... Read more

The Merry Spinster

By: Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Narrated by: Christina Traister

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From Daniel Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from his beloved "Children's Stories Made Horrific" series, The Merry Spinster takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and his best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature has become... Read more

Every Man for Himself

By: Nancy Mercado

Narrated by: Ben Rameka

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

What does "being a guy" actually mean? Some of the most talented writers are about to show you. In this diverse and original collection of short stories, ten well-known writers, including Mo Willems, Walter Dean Myers, Ron Koertge, Rene Saldaña, Jr., David Levithan, and David Lubar, share their stories about the trials and tribulations of being... Read more

Notes from a Black Woman's Diary

By: Kathleen Collins

Narrated by: Nina Collins, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Bahni...

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2019 FROM
Vanity Fair * Vogue * The Huffington PostA stunning multi-cast audio collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays, and scripts by the brilliant African-American artist and filmmaker, featuring the voices of Nina Collins, Mari, Bahni Turpin, Adenrele Ojo, January LaVoy, and Robin Miles.Relatively unknown during... Read more

The Ornery Little Cuss

By: Henry Vinegar

Narrated by: VOXYFOX

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when an Ornery Little Cuss crawls into Ida's hair? She has a day full of inexplicable tantrums. What is it, and how does she get it out?  Search Terms: bad mood, childrens story, tempers, little girls, kids, humor, monsters Read more

The Grass Harp

By: Truman Capote

Narrated by: Cody Roberts

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most... Read more

Shen of the Sea

By: Arthur Bowie Chrisman

Narrated by: A. C. Fellner

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A series of fascinating Chinese stories, strong in humor and rich in Chinese wisdom, in which the author has caught admirably the spirit of Chinese life and thought. Read more

The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions

By: V. S. Naipaul

Narrated by: Simon Vance, Ron Butler & Vikas Adam

Length: 19 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

V. S. Naipaul’s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction—two novels and a collection of stories—that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaul’s hilarious take on an electoral campaign... Read more

La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Julio Correal

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora estos siete relatos de plena madurez, de la etapa en la que Macondo abrió a su autor las puertas del realismo mágico. Los mejores autores de nuestro tiempo disponibles en formato audiolibro. Este audiolibro excepcional reúne la novela corta que le otorga su título y otros seis relatos más, de los que todos menos uno pertenecen a la... Read more

Ojos de perro azul

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Juan Sebastián Aragón

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha estos relatos en los que se encuentra la primera piedra del que acabaría convirtiéndose en el espacio literario más poderoso de las letras universales de nuestro tiempo: Macondo. Los mejores títulos de Gabriel García Márquez para escuchar. Estos relatos tempranos de quien posteriormente sería premio Nobel fueron escritos y publicados... Read more

Crazy Loco

By: David Talbot Rice

Narrated by: Joe Rodriguez

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful collection of short stories telling the tales of a Mexican-American childhood ideal for fans of Gary Soto

Welcome to Southern Texas.
Meet Loco, a dog with a passion for firecrackers. And Pedro, an altar boy forced to lean a hard lesson from two of the toughest, oldest men ever to serve the Lord. Jordan and Todd are two boys from... Read more

The Cat's Pajamas

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the winner of the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters comes a "sweet, funny.thought-provoking" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) collection of short stories. As in his most recent major fiction collections, One More for the Road (1999) and Driving Blind (1997), Ray Bradbury has once again... Read more

The October Country

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“… that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay …”

Explore the outer limits of the imagination with the Grand Master of American Literature, Ray Bradbury, in a dark and disquieting descent into The... Read more

A Murder of Scarecrows

By: Mark Leslie

Narrated by: Eric Bryan Moore

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A small eastern community becomes over-run by a growing army of scarecrows.This short story of approximately 8000 words was inspired by an actual legend from the Nova Scotia community of Necum Teuch. Read more