Short Stories audiobooks

Summer Lies

By: Bernhard Schlink

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The truth is, as a character in this provocative new collection puts it, 'passionate, beautiful, and hideous, it can make you happy and it can torture you, and it's always liberating.' In 'After the Season,' a man of humble means falls quickly in love with a woman belonging to a much elevated financial status and wrestles with his feelings and... Read more

The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser & Christopher Lee

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories is a collection of eleven tantalizing tales of murder and other criminal pursuits—including the classic title story, the basis for the 1957 Oscar-nominated Billy Wilder film starring Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, and Charles Laughton.A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the... Read more

The Golden Ball and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser & Christopher Lee

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A sterling collection of short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and others, The Golden Ball and Other Stories is a riveting compendium of shocking secrets, dastardly crimes, and brilliant detection—a showcase of Dame Agatha at her very best.Is it a gesture of goodwill or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to a... Read more

Some Remarks

By: Neal Stephenson

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Neal Stephenson has made a name for himself as a writer whose imagination knows no limits.”
—Salon#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the... Read more

Oblivion

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.

These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's... Read more

Where the Rivers Flow North

By: Howard Frank Mosher

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

These seven striking tales of life in rural New England are both lyrical and captivating. Kingdom County, Vermont, is an isolated vestige of an earlier New England. In its rugged hills, a proud and resourceful people struggle to live on the land that is both their adversary and their life's blood."Within the borders of his fictional kingdom,"... Read more

Ellen and the Barber

By: Frank O'Rourke

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Vividly evoking a small mid-west town during the Great Depression and World War II, Ellen and the Barber introduces us to three strong and surprising young women and the men in their lives: Ellen, who has no good reason to deny her natural instincts; Miriam, torn between the promise of a loving future and the demands of family and home; and... Read more

None So Blind

By: Joe Haldeman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning visionary and true master of worlds and wonders, the man whom author David Brin calls “one of the best prophetic writers of our times,” once again demonstrates the breathtaking scope and startling power of his imagination, transporting listeners across space and time, into the heart of darkness and the soul of madness.From the... Read more

Rover’s Tales

By: Michael Z. Lewin

Narrated by: Michael Z. Lewin

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of short stories, Michael Z. Lewin gives Rover, his canine narrator, a voice that speaks for dogs everywhere. He endows Rover with enough intelligence, spunk, and compassion to combat the injustices committed against his fellow canines by fate, unthinking humans, and even other dogs.Rover is a dog with street smarts, a bit of... Read more

The Long Valley

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Penguin Classic

First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for... 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

4:50 From Paddington

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery 4:50 From Paddington, a woman in one train witnesses a murder occurring in another passing one…and only Miss Marple believes her story.For an instant the two trains ran side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth McGillicuddy stared helplessly out of her carriage window as a man tightened his grip around a... Read more

Spider's Web

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic from the queen of mystery: Agatha Christie. Read more

The Hollow

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Christie’s classic, The Hollow, finds Poirot entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell’s country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife... Read more

The Unexpected Guest

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic from Agatha Christie, the original queen of mystery.When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a... 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

They Do It with Mirrors

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s They Do It with Mirrors, the indomitable Miss Marple investigates some rather deadly doings at a rehabilitation center for delinquents.Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Although... Read more

The Mysterious Mr. Quin

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The inimitable Agatha Christie intrigues, surprises, and delights with The Mysterious Mr. Quin—a riveting collection of short stories centered around the enigmatic Harley Quin, whose unpredictable comings and goings are usually a good indication that something is about to happen…and rarely for the best.It had been a typical New Year's Eve party.... Read more

Black Coffee

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: John Moffatt

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Claud Amory's formula for a powerful new explosive has been stolen, presumably by a member of his large household. Sir Claud assembles his suspects in the library and locks the door, instructing them that the when the lights go out, the formula must be replaced on the table -- and no questions will be asked. But when the lights come on, Sir... Read more

The Labors of Hercules

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Like The Labors of Hercules, the twelve cases Poirot must solve in this captivating collection of short crime fiction stories are dangerous, demanding, and positively ingenious.In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet—reasoned the detective—like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its... Read more

Murder in the Mews

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Nigel Hawthorne

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Christie’s classic Murder in the Mews presents four mystifying criminal conundrums that will seriously test the superior detecting skills of the unflappable Hercule Poirot.How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top... Read more

Parker Pyne Investigates

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Christie once again demonstrates her mastery of the short form mystery with Parker Pyne Investigates—short stories of crime and detection featuring Parker Pyne, certainly one of the most unconventional private investigators ever to pursue a hot lead.Mrs. Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she... Read more

The Wondrous Child

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wondrous Child is a tale written by the famous Bram Stoker, writer of Dracula. This short story is an amazing tale of a brother and sister, Sibold and May, and their dream adventure where they encounter the wondrous child. Read more

The Inimitable Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Bertie Wooster is in trouble again as his lovesick pal, Bingo Little, falls in love with every girl he lays eyes on. The real problem starts when Bingo decides to marry one of the girls and he enlists Bertie's help. Luckily for Bertie, Jeeves once again comes to the rescue! With his usual savoir-faire and panache, Jeeves unties the tangles and... Read more