Short Stories audiobooks

Men Without Women

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers" (Barack Obama).

Across seven... Read more

Shifting Shadows

By: Patricia Briggs

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author—including four all-new, original stories from the world of Mercy Thompson.Mercy Thompson’s world just got a whole lot bigger…A collection of all-new and previously published short stories featuring Mercy Thompson, “one of the best heroines in the urban fantasy genre today” (Fiction Vixen Book... Read more

Rainy Day Stories

By: Enid Blyton

Narrated by: Beth Eyre & George Greenland

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Pull on your welly boots for these short stories by the world's best-loved story teller. Ideal for children aged 5 and up!

In this charming collection by Enid Blyton, children stumble upon secret rooms on rainy days and gnomes pretend they can forecast the weather. The rain may be pouring down in these stories, but there's plenty of mischief and... Read more

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

By: Ken Liu

Narrated by: Corey Brill & Joy Osmanski

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots

Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.

With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper... Read more

A Caribbean Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The delightful Miss Marple is ensnared in A Caribbean Mystery when a retired military man sparks her curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murdererAs Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever... Read more

Poirot Investigates

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Poirot Investigates a host of murders most foul—as well as other dastardly crimes—in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie.First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the “suicide” that was murder . . . the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat . . .a suspicious death in a... Read more

Neighbors and Other Stories

By: Diane Oliver

Narrated by: Emana Rachelle

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and 60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver’s insightful stories... Read more

Craft

By: Ananda Lima

Narrated by: Taylor Harvey

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life, and she writes him stories about beautiful and impossible things. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and unsettling linked collection that lures listeners into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil, where... Read more

Everything's Eventual

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, John Cullum, Boyd Gaines, Pet...

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes the story “The Man in the Black Suit”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Henry Prize and other awards, and “Riding the Bullet,” which attracted over half a million online readers and became the... Read more

Dubliners

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Andrew Scott

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Andrew Scott, star of Sherlock, Fleabag and Black Mirror, also known for his on-stage roles in Present Laughter and Hamlet. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Terence Brown.

Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the... Read more

Homesick for Another World

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan & Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our timeOttessa Moshfegh’s debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle,... Read more

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Brooke Bloom, Hope D...

Length: 20 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award

Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on... Read more

The World’s Worst Children

By: David Walliams

Narrated by: David Walliams, Nitin Ganatra, Eric Mok & Rebec...

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the world’s favourite author, David Walliams – ten cautionary tales and a delightfully dreadful cast of characters! Are you ready to meet the World’s Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls! Like Sofia Sofa – a TV super-fan so stuck to the sofa that she’s turning into one! ... Read more

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the ""Best Crime Novel of all Time""Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been... Read more

Wounds

By: Nathan Ballingrud

Narrated by: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Matthew Lloyd Davi...

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Stretch[es] the boundaries of the genre...It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty.” —The New York Times
“One of the field’s most accomplished short story writers.” —The Washington Post

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis for the upcoming major motion picture—by Shirley Jackson... Read more

Overclocked

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: various narrators, Lloyd James, Nicola Barber, ...

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Now available for the first time with two additional stories!Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of... Read more

Ship Fever

By: Andrea Barrett

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction from "genius-enchantress" (Karen Russell) Andrea Barrett that introduces the characters of Barrett's vividly imagined world. The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving... Read more

Monstrous Affections

By: Kelly Link (Editor)

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate & Nick Podehl

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Predatory kraken that sing with—and for—their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as to repel. Welcome to a world where humans live side-by-side with monsters, from vampires both nostalgic and bumbling, to an eight-legged alien who makes tea. Here you'll find mercurial forms that burrow... Read more

A Merciful Secret

By: Kendra Elliot

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, a pair of ritual murders could expose Mercy Kilpatrick to something terrifying: her own past…Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon. Unforgiven by her father for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past... Read more

You Are Not A Stranger Here

By: Adam Haslett

Narrated by: Norman Dietz, Scott Sowers, Jonathan Todd Ross,...

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In his bestselling and lavishly praised first book of stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish... Read more

The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell

Narrated by: Shayna Small & Tananarive Due

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a foreword by author, educator, and Jordan Peele collaborator, Tananarive Due.

A YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one.

Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and... Read more

The White Guy Dies First

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, ...

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, André Santana, Angel Pe...

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"This Young Adult book is a scream to listen to."—The Berkshire Eagle

This program features multicast narration as well as an author's note and acknowledgements read by the author.

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED... THE FIRST KILL.

The White Guy Dies First includes thirteen scary stories by all-star contributors and this... Read more

Look 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

An 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