Meat Cute
By: Gail Carriger
Narrated by: Emma Newman
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the comedic mind of New York Times bestseller Gail Carriger comes the much requested prequel short story to Soulless. Narrated by the wonderful Emma Newman! Alexia Tarabotti attends what appears to be a very dull London party, until the new werewolf Alpha turns up, is unconscionably rude to her, and sits on a hedgehog.Don't miss this... Read more
View audiobookMagnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: 9 from the Nine Worlds
By: Rick Riordan
Narrated by: Various
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and imaginative new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology.
The Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy may have concluded, but we haven't heard the last of our favorite peeps from the Nine Worlds. Join... Read more
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
By: A.S. Byatt
Narrated by: Virginia Leishman
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Glowing with narrator Virginia Leishman's finely tuned phrasing, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye is the perfect introduction to A.S. Byatt, an author who continues to receive international awards and acclaim. Her wondrous fairy tales are iridescent stories full of spells, marvelous creatures, and beautiful princesses. The title tale focuses... Read more
View audiobookLife Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, variou...
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existenceWith Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan,... Read more
View audiobookThe Hodgeheg and Other Stories
By: Dick King-Smith
Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Puffin.
This wonderfully funny audio collection contains eight adventures from the master of animal tales, Dick King-Smith.
Perfect for young listeners, this magical collection features one of Dick King-Smith's most-loved stories: The Hodgeheg.
Max is a hedgehog who lives with his family in a nice little home, but it's on the... Read more
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
By: Sindya Bhanoo
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women's lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power—a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner
Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their... Read more
The Beast You Are
By: Paul Tremblay
Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Xe Sands, Ewan Chung, Graham Hal...
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World. Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this... Read more
View audiobookHer Body and Other Parties
By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado... Read more
View audiobookThe Office of Historical Corrections
By: Danielle Evans
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nicole Lewis, Brittany Pr...
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE 2021 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY O MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, THE WASHINGTON POST, REAL SIMPLE, THE GUARDIAN, AND MORE
FINALIST FOR: THE STORY PRIZE, THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE
“Sublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging . . . an extraordinary... Read more
Florida
By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Lauren Groff
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds
In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "gorgeously weird and limber" (New Yorker), "frequently funny" (San Francisco... Read more
Speculation
By: Nisi Shawl
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
After Winna's little sister breaks her glasses, her grandfather gives her an old-timey pair of spectacles that belonged to her great-aunt Estelle. The specs are silver and perfectly circular, with tiny stars on the bridge and earpieces that curl all the way around her ears.
Best of all, they're magic.
Because when Winna makes a wish beginning... Read more
The Collected Stories of Winnie-the-Pooh
By: A.A. Milne
Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Geof...
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNIE-THE-POOH
POOH GOES VISITING and other stories
Story 1 In which we are introduced
Story 2 In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
Story 3 In which Pooh and Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a Woozle
Story 4 In which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
Story 5 In which Piglet is entirely surrounded by water
Story 6 In... Read more
Dear Life
By: Alice Munro
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Arthur Morey
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time.
Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is... Read more
Milk Blood Heat
By: Dantiel W. Moniz
Narrated by: Machelle Williams
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each... Read more
View audiobookLook Both Ways
By: Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms, Chris Chalk, Bahni Turpin...
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!
UK Carnegie Medal winner
A National Book Award Finalist
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
An NPR Favorite Book of 2019
A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2019
A Time Best Children’s Book of 2019
A Today Show Best Kids’ Book of 2019
A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2019
A School Library... Read more
Partners in Crime
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Partners in Crime—or rather partners in crime solving—and must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over... Read more
View audiobookAn Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
By: Helene Tursten
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Don't let her age fool you. Maud may be nearly ninety, but if you cross her, this elderly lady is more sinister than sweet.
Just when things have finally cooled down for eighty-eight-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep. Though Maud dodges their... Read more
Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
Narrated by: Jason Sean
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK WINNER OF THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTIONNamed a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times * NPR * Washington Post * LA Times * Kirkus Reviews * New York Public Library * Chicago Public Library * Harper’s Bazaar * TIME *... Read more
View audiobookLand Of Big Numbers
By: Te-Ping Chen
Narrated by: Eddy Lee, Fiona Rene, Matt Yang King, Christine...
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama · NPR · The Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Esquire · Kirkus Reviews · Chicago Public Library · Electric Literature Malala Yousafzai’s Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati
""Dazzling...Riveting."" —New York Times Book Review
“Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen’s... Read more
Grand Union
By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Zadie Smith & Doc Brown
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal!
A dazzling collection of short fiction
Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life... Read more
Full Throttle
By: Joe Hill
Narrated by: Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Neil...
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 Audie Awards® WINNER - Short Stories/Collections
The number one New York Times best-selling author of The Fireman and Strange Weather returns with a dark and ingenious collection of 13 compelling short stories that showcase his ability to “push genre conventions to new extremes” (New York Times Book Review), performed by a stunning... Read more
His Hideous Heart
By: Dahlia Adler
Narrated by: amanda lovelace, Caitlin Davies, Caleb Roehrig,...
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"His Hideous Heart is an audiobook dream. Half of the stories are read by their authors and the other half are read by professional narrators; all are delightful and, of course, haunting." -- Paste
Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.
Edgar Allan Poe... Read more
Mouthful of Birds
By: Samanta Schweblin
Narrated by: Various
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star.
Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection.
Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where... Read more
Women! In! Peril!
By: Jessie Ren Marshall
Narrated by: Rachel Noe Nishizawa
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Full of wry humor, sharp social commentary, and an irrepressible sense of hope, a ferociously feminist debut short story collection from award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall.
In this brash and unputdownable collection, we meet a sex bot trying to outlast her return policy, a skeptical lesbian grappling with her wife’s mysterious... Read more