Short Stories audiobooks

The Reservoir Tapes

By: Jon McGregor

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Justine Eyre, Sarah Nichols, ...

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Returning us to the extraordinary territory of Jon McGregor’s Man Booker Prize long-listed novel Reservoir 13, The Reservoir Tapes take us deep into the heart of an English village that is trying to come to terms with what has happened on its watch.A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And... Read more

Verge

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Sophie Amoss, Michael Crouch, ...

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Bustle and Lit Hub

A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.

Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her... Read more

Life Without Children

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Roddy Doyle

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you’re left feeling close to dazzled.” —Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review

A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize–winning author of... Read more

Save Me, Stranger

By: Erika Krouse

Narrated by: Adam Ewer & Blair Baker

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From EDGAR-AWARD WINNING author Erika Krouse, a VISCERAL, DAZZLING collection of stories set across the globe about characters desperate for salvation

“Comparative audiobook newbies Baker and Ewer already know how to aurally enhance Krouse’s marvelously provocative fiction debut.”—Booklist (Starred Review)

“Far-ranging and visionary collection...A... Read more

How to Pronounce Knife

By: Souvankham Thammavongsa

Narrated by: James Tang & Kulap Vilaysack

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the New York Times' "7 New Books to Watch Out for in April," this revelatory story collection honors characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world." In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's debut collection, a young girl brings a book home from school and... Read more

War Dances

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: Sherman Alexie

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award winner and New York Times best-selling author Sherman Alexie infuses his writing with biting wit and poignant insight. As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric... Read more

American Housewife

By: Helen Ellis

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney, Lisa Cordileone, Rebecca Lo...

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line.

Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They... Read more

Public Library and Other Stories

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Ali Smith

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed, award-winning author: Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we’ve read over our lives—our own personal libraries—make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?

The stories in Ali Smith’s new collection are about what we do with books and... Read more

We Two Alone

By: Jack Wang

Narrated by: Feodor Chin & Natalie Naudus

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Praised as “utterly remarkable” and “deeply resonant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces... Read more

Harbor Lights

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Matt Pittenger, Michael David Axt...

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke.

Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands... Read more

Love in Color

By: Bolu Babalola

Narrated by: Ajjaz Awad, Nneka Okoye, Bolu Babalola & Olukem...

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER""Love stories by and about marginalized women . . . The heroines are strong and sure . . . Babalola’s writing shines.” — New York Times Book Review""Absolutely intoxicating."" — Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue and One Last StopA vibrant debut collection of love stories... Read more

Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from Korean by Anton Hur, this collection shares tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. ​

In “The Center for Immortality Research,” a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be... Read more

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

By: GennaRose Nethercott

Narrated by: GennaRose Nethercott, January LaVoy, Gabra Zack...

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us—or go monstrously wrong.

“Real magic, real delight, doled out generously in the shape of wistful, ferocious,... Read more

The Whole Animal

By: Corinna Chong

Narrated by: Laura Miyata

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human. For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that explore bodies both human and animal: our fascination with their strange effluences,... Read more

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Nick Offerman, Michael Shannon, Dermot Mulroney...

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson
 
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most... Read more

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale

By: Jane Yolen

Narrated by: various narrators, Suzanne Toren, Eileen Steven...

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Fantasy icon Jane Yolen is adored by generations of readers of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and legends. Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the... Read more

Your Duck Is My Duck

By: Deborah Eisenberg

Narrated by: Deborah Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moor...

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight,... Read more

"Cat Person" and Other Stories

By: Kristen Roupenian

Narrated by: Aubrey Plaza, Jayme Mattler, Molly Pope, Will D...

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

*Includes the story “Cat Person”—now a major film*

A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny—connections between gender, sex, and power across genres.

“These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much.” —Carmen Maria Machado,... Read more

The Graybar Hotel

By: Curtis Dawkins

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “toughly courageous, unflinching, and unapologetic” (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut collection, Curtis Dawkins, an MFA graduate and convicted murderer serving life without parole, “takes us inside the worlds of prison and prisoners with stories that dazzle with their humor and insight, even as they describe a harsh and barren existence”... Read more

A Long Time Dead

By: Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

With an introduction by Max Allan Collins: the first collection of stories starring legendary Mike Hammer, the toughest private investigator in historyIt starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform... Read more

Are You Enjoying?

By: Mira Sethi

Narrated by: Mira Sethi

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart.

From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly... Read more

After the Funeral and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

Narrated by: Abigail Thaw

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships—Tessa Hadley is "one of the greatest stylists alive" (Ron Charles, Washington Post).

A Best Book of the Year: TIME, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vogue

“Hadley is pure magic and After the... Read more

Greatest Hits

By: Harlan Ellison

Narrated by: Harlan Ellison, Grover Gardner, Hillary Huber, ...

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of award-winning short stories by Harlan Ellison, an eight-time Hugo Award winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and four-time Nebula Award winnerHarlan Ellison’s work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the twentieth century, and this collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed stories is a perfect... Read more

Sour Heart

By: Jenny Zhang

Narrated by: Greta Jung, Jenny Zhang, Kim Mai Guest, Nancy W...

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot Díaz

A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant... Read more