Short Stories audiobooks

The Timbertoes: Family Teamwork

By: Highlights For Children

Narrated by: Highlights For Children

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Family teamwork! The Timbertoes know that teamwork makes the dream work and that when things go wrong no one has your back like family. Stories by Rich Wallace and Marileta Robinson. Read more

Pastoralia

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funny," George Saunders gives us, in... Read more

Little Bunny: A Good Friend

By: Highlights For Children

Narrated by: Highlights For Children

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A good friend! Little Bunny learns that apologies are important when you make a mistake. Little Bunny finds a way to help people. At the library, Little Bunny and his friends learn about poetry. Badger, Squirrel, and Little Bunny have a pool party. Stories by Eileen Spinelli and Highlights for Children. Read more

Tex and Indi: Be Kind to Mother Nature

By: Highlights For Children

Narrated by: Highlights For Children

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Nature! Tex and Indi find fun shapes in the clouds, make bird feeders, and wish on the moon. The whole family plants a garden. Then Tex and Indi go on a nature hike with their Aunt. Stories by Lissa Rovetch. Read more

The Timbertoes: Meeting Animals

By: Highlights For Children

Narrated by: Highlights For Children

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Animals! The Timbertoes try to protect their garden from hungry animals. The Timbertoes copy an otter. A goat rings the porch bell. Tommy hears peeper frogs for the first time. Stories by Rich Wallace and Marileta Robinson. Read more

Trabajo, piso, pareja

By: Zahara

Narrated by: Nikki García & Francesco Carril

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Zahara compone un relato a dos voces sobre la conciliación romántica y profesional de una generación en la que está mal visto enamorarse, en la que el trabajo es la prioridad y el desapego familiar la norma. Una sociedad en la que mantener una relación es tan difícil como sostener en pie un castillo de naipes. Clarisa: treintaipocos, pertenece a... Read more

Be my little Baby

By: Rhiana Corbin

Narrated by: Rhiana Corbin

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan hatte noch nie viel Glück im Leben. Als sie schwanger wird, verlässt sie ihr Freund, der kurz darauf von einem Baum erschlagen wird. Jetzt muss sie allein durch die Schwangerschaft und für ihr Kind sorgen, das sie bald erwartet. Vincent Mercer ist ein ziemlicher Aufreißer und behauptet, jede Frau ins Bett zubekommen. Bei einem Abendessen... Read more

Human Types

By: Alexander Kuprin

Narrated by: Virginia Ferguson

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Having traveled much and tried his hand at many jobs, Alexander Kuprin ran into all sorts of people over the course of his tumultuous life. Human Types is a selection of sketches from the vast gallery of portraits he had created as part of his writing.This collection includes the following works: Bonze Delirium Doctor The Inquiry To... Read more

Después del domingo

By: Octavio Escobar Giraldo

Narrated by: Camilo Rodriguez

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Este volumen reune algunos de los mejores relatos del escritor Octavio Escobar Giraldo (Manizales, 1962) que demuestran por qué es considera uno de los narradores más versátiles, interesantes e innovadores de la literatura colombiana contemporánea. Read more

Tell Me Who We Were

By: Kate McQuade

Narrated by: Sarah Naughton, Sophie Amoss, Allyson Ryan, Amy...

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Infused with the keen insight of Joyce Carol Oates and haunting power of Kelly Link, a radiant collection of linked stories that explore the vulnerability, resilience, and hidden desires of women, following six girls over the course of sixty years, from their first semester at boarding school to the twilight of their lives.

It begins with a... Read more

Silence

By: Nikita Singh

Narrated by: Pooja Punjabi & Sukrit Sharma

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

They both used to be closest to each other at one point of time in life. All he wanted was her but life never gave them a chance and they both went on separate paths. Now at his Daadi's funeral, they both meet again and reconnect.. but this time with their Silence... Read more

حكايات شتوية

By: حسين السيد

Narrated by: رنا الخطيب

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

"ما تركته لي جدتي من متاع وإرث غريب كان عجيبًا ومخيفًا...كانت جدتي تعمل بالسحر، ورغم أنَّ هذا الأمر بغيض كريه إلّا أنّها لم تجتهد في إخفائه أو حتى خالجها الخجل يومًا منه. كان هناك ذلك القناع البدائي المليء بالخطوط الزرقاء الطولية والبصمات الدموية الغريبة وفجوتي العينين المجوفتين في أعلاه كالمغارات المظلمة الغامضة، لقد زعمت جدتي أنّ÷ قناعٌ يُتيح... Read more

تاكسي حواديت المشاوير - Abridged

By: خالد الخميسي

Narrated by: سيد الرومي

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

يتحدث الخميسي فى كتابه "تاكسى المشاوير" عن مصر والمجتمع المصري فالكتاب عبارة يوميات تصف هموم وأحلام وذكريات ملايين المصريين في شخصياتهم وأدوارهم المختلفة في القاهرة.. في تاكسي المشاوير يستمع الخميسي للسائقين عندما ينشغلون بسرد تفاصيل حياتهم اليومية، يتفاعل مع احباطاتهم وعذاباتهم يومية جريا وراء لقمة العيش المهددة بالزوال، و الصعبة، تمسكا بالحياة... Read more

A Walk in Wildflower Park

By: Bella Osborne

Narrated by: Candida Gubbins

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A Walk in Wildflower Park was originally published as a four-part serial. This is the complete story in one package. Life’s not always a walk in the park… Anna thought she’d found The One – until he broke off their engagement exactly a year before their wedding day. Hoping new surroundings... Read more

The Fallen

By: Michael Wood

Narrated by: Stephanie Beattie

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths A short story and prequel featuring DCI Matilda Darke, star of Michael Wood’s darkly compelling crime series. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid. It’s Christmas... Read more

The World’s Worst Teachers

By: David Walliams

Narrated by: David Walliams, Helen McCrory, Jon Culshaw, Jan...

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions of young readers have loved the World’s Worst Children tales – now they will revel in this delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups ever: The World’s Worst Teachers. Think your teachers are bad? Wait till you meet this lot. These ten tales of the world’s most splendidly sinister teachers will... Read more

Sweet Home

By: Wendy Erskine

Narrated by: Wendy Erskine

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

'A gripping, wonderfully understated book that oozes humanity, emotion and humour.' Guardian

Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2019

Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019

Longlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019

A Book of the Year in the Guardian, The White Review, Observer, New Statesman, TLS.

Set in the author’s native... Read more

Ishq Samunder

By: Kush Vaishnav

Narrated by: Krutarth Trivedi

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

अपूर्वा और कबीर सालों बाद एक बार फिर समंदर के किनारे मिलते हैं. अपूर्वा की शादी होने वाली है लेकिन कबीर के अंदर एक तूफान मचा है... Read more

A Madman’s Diary, and Other Stories

By: Lu Xun

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is A Madman’s Diary, and Other Stories by Lu Xun, a renowned writer of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet who wrote both in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese. He became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai in the 1930s. Read more

Game On! Basketball

By: Highlights For Children

Narrated by: Highlights For Children

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Let's shoot some hoops! Devin learns how important it is to be consistent when practicing three-point shots. Jordan gets intimidated by another player's size. Can Jordan defend against him? Tara feels the pressure to successfully make three foul shots and win the game for her team. Stories by Rich Wallace. Read more

Birds of America

By: Lorrie Moore

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work today From the opening story, “Willing”—about a second-rate movie actress in her thirties who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human... Read more

The Timbertoes: Work and Play

By: Highlights For Children

Narrated by: Highlights For Children

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

It takes work to have fun! Tommy searches for more honey for his snack. Tommy and Mabel build a tower, Pa builds a canoe, and the whole Timbertoes family puts together a picnic to enjoy. Stories by Rich Wallace and Marileta Robinson. Read more

Ask Arizona: Helping Hands

By: Highlights For Children

Narrated by: Highlights For Children

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Lend a hand! Arizona helps her sister, Indi, find her missing lost tooth. Indi helps Arizona clean her room. Arizona, her friend Ollie, and Abuela help out at a soup kitchen. Read along as Arizona learns how rewarding helping can be. Stories by Lissa Rovetch. Read more

Ask Arizona: Honesty is the Best Policy

By: Highlights For Children

Narrated by: Highlights For Children

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Oh, honestly! Arizona learns the difference between honesty, and tact. Arizona's siblings, Tex and Indi, get into an argument about missing craft supplies. Is someone lying, or are they telling the truth? It's better to not tell a fib, and be honest in the first place. Stories by Lissa Rovetch. Read more