Short Stories audiobooks

Bestiario

By: Julio Cortázar

Narrated by: Leandro Schnitman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Ocho relatos conforman el primer libro de cuentos publicado por Julio Cortázar y la puerta de ingreso a la gran literatura. Ocho relatos en los que aparecen diferentes formas de animales: reales, simbólicos, imaginarios. Animales que son, a veces, comparaciones, metáforas de lo absurdo o analogías de lo que, de tan repugnante, no se puede... Read more

Some Trick

By: Helen DeWitt

Narrated by: Tim Campbell, Emily Sutton-Smith, James Langton...

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

At last a new book: a baker’s dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt’s razor-sharp geniusFor sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world’s piranha... Read more

Roar

By: Cecelia Ahern

Narrated by: Aisling Bea, Lara Sawalha & Adjoa Andoh

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of P.S., I Love You, a fiercely feminist story collection that illuminates, sometimes in fantastical ways, how women of all kinds navigate the world today—now an Apple TV+ series from the creators of GLOW starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, and Alison Brie!

In this singular and imaginative story... Read more

Long After Midnight

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Two drifters caught in the backwash of space wander from city to dead city, sifting the rubble for the fabled Blue Bottle of Mars-and find in it two different, equally entrancing, dooms... A young boy in Green Town, Illinois, does not marry-yet marries-his beloved eighth-grade teacher... In the hell of a Manhattan July night, Will Morgan is... Read more

Native American Myths

By: Patrick Healy

Narrated by: Denise Kahn

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The teacher, Patrick Healy, travelled around the world, talked with people in different places, and collected around half thousand myths, legends, and folktales and their several alternative versions. His opinion and comments (directly or indirectly) are inevitable.
This is the ninth volume of his work, 33 Native American Myths, in his words.... Read more

Training School for Negro Girls

By: Camille Acker

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Janina Edwards

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who’s never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life’s “training school”―with lessons on gentrification and respectability—and fight to create their own... Read more

Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country

By: Chavisa Woods

Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell & Rudy Sanda

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The eight stories in Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country paint a vivid image of people living on the fringes in America, people who don't do what you might expect them to. Not stories of triumph over adversity, but something completely other.



Described in language that is brilliantly sardonic, Woods's characters return repeatedly to... Read more

Home Remedies

By: Xuan Juliana Wang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho, Tim Chiou, Feodor Chin, James Che...

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION • WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL IN FIRST FICTION • WINNER OF THE JOHN ZACHARIS FIRST BOOK AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR... Read more

The New Order

By: Karen E. Bender

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The National Book Award finalist for Refund returns with a new collection of stories that boldly examines the changes in American culture over the last two years through the increasing presence of violence, bigotry, sexual harassment, and the emotional costs of living under constant threat.



In the title story, the competition between two middle... Read more

Sing to It

By: Amy Hempel

Narrated by: Amy Hempel

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD

ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019

From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: an astounding collection of fifteen stories that are “riveting in precision” (The Atlantic) and “scintillating as the blade of a... Read more

Broken Throne: A Red Queen Collection

By: Victoria Aveyard

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan, Vikas Adam, Charlie Thurston, Eri...

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Return once more to the deadly and dazzling world of Red Queen in Broken Throne, a must-have companion to the chart-topping series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard.The perfect addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, this features three brand-new novellas, two previously published novellas, Steel... Read more

Vor fremden Augen. Hot Quickies

By: Vicky Carlton

Narrated by: Daniel Schwarz

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Schon mal beim Sex beobachtet worden?

Phil vernascht seine Freundin beim morgendlichen Joggen - vor den Augen einer Voyeurin, die ihn so richtig scharf macht. Doch die fremde Frau hat ein Geheimnis ...

... ein verdammt heißer Quickie ... JETZT DOWNLOADEN! Read more

The Ice King

By: FREI

Narrated by: Sebastian Michael

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Deep inside the glacier lives The Ice King, supple and smooth. His skin is aglow with the cold, and unbelievably soft. He should be milky white, but there’s an olive tint to his hue, and no sooner do I see him, than I want to touch him."The Ice King is a poetic short story about life in a world of the senses and the expanded mind.EDEN... Read more

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

By: Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Narrated by: Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Baron Vaughn, James Urban...

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe.

Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s stories will make you laugh, weep, and shiver in... Read more

Remember Thy Oath

By: Clay Boutwell

Narrated by: Clay Boutwell

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A hidden identity. A mysterious priest. An oath left unfulfilled.

Edison, the most proper member of the Agora Society, hides a past he thought was long buried. The sudden appearance of a strange priest, however, reveals secrets that demand Edison honor an oath made long ago.

With news of the imminent arrival of assassins, can the members of the... Read more

Ghost Stories

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Timson

Length: 16 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens was a master of the macabre. His stories of madness, murder and revenge, often imbued with a sympathetic moral undertone, have continued to thrill and chill readers ever since they were written. Here then are 15 tales that display the full range of Dickens’s Gothic talents. The Signalman, perhaps the most well-known, is a... Read more

Existence Augmented

By: Channing Whitaker

Narrated by: Suzanne T. Fortin

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Existence Augmented is a dystopian, sci-fi novelette and psychological thriller. The world outside is cold, hostile, and virtually lifeless. Human existence depends on sophisticated, technological living compounds. The people who don’t have them, once driven to theft and murder, are believed to be long since dead. Alden, a genius of physical and... Read more

Dawn

By: Selahattin Demirtas

Narrated by: Baris Duyan, Ayse Eldek & Kate Reading

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A new book from Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint, SJP for Hogarth: Written from behind bars, the unforgettable collection from one of Turkey’s leading politicians and most powerful storytellers.
 
In this essential collection, Selahattin Demirtaş’s arresting stories capture the voices of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. A... Read more

Rutting Season

By: Mandeliene Smith

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In these lucid, sharply observant stories, Mandeliene Smith traces the lives of men and women in moments of crisis: a woman whose husband has just died, a social worker struggling to escape his own past, a girl caught in a standoff between her mother's boyfriend and the police. A lively and insightful collection, Rutting Season is dark,... Read more

Amigos por el viento

By: Liliana Bodoc

Narrated by: Matilde Ávila

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Siete relatos que dejan marcas. Tal como la vida que a veces se comporta como el viento y entonces trae aires de amor, o aires llenos de desengaño, aires que con su paso nos transforman.
Relatos introspectivos de delicada poética. Cuentos sensibles que impactan en el lector y seguramente lo transforman. Relatos de temáticas diversas, pero... Read more

Screen Tests

By: Kate Zambreno

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In Screen Tests, an astoundingly original and stylish collection, Zambreno has once again created new categories of writing, of vivid and surprising language and thought. In the first half, the narrator regales us with incisive and witty swatches from a life lived inside a brilliant mind, meditating on aging and vanity, fame and failure, writing... Read more

Cain't Do Nothing with Love

By: Ellen Morris Prewitt

Narrated by: Ellen Morris Prewitt

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

CAIN’T DO NOTHING WITH LOVE was the winner of the CIPA EVVY Audio Book Award 2014. The stories have been downloaded over 55,000 times. All stories treat the most difficult topics—death, religion, family—with sharp humor and urgent respect.
LUCKY CRITTERS
A lonely young woman in Florence, Alabama reacts to the sudden death of her boyfriend by... Read more

The Open Source Woman

By: J. Daniel Sawyer

Narrated by: J. Daniel Sawyer

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody lies - especially when dating. Fortunately, Luke has your back. A self-appointed honesty enforcer, he volunteers at bars using VR optics and data mining in his quest to referee the game of love. He'll keep you honest and send you home happy...if you play fair.But a world without secrets holds all kinds of surprises, even for Luke -... Read more

Ghosts of the Shadow Market

By: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Jo...

Narrated by: Various

Length: 17 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes an exciting new short story collection that follows Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world. Ghosts of the Shadow Market is a Shadowhunters novel.

The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires.... Read more