Short Stories audiobooks

New Stories From the South 2004

By: Shannon Ravenel

Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson, Pete Bradbury, L.J. Ganser,...

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The 19th addition of this annual anthology exhibits a collection of short fiction from award-winning Southern authors and rising stars including Edward P. Jones and Silas House. Each story's derivation is explained in an illuminating note from the author following the rich and entertaining tales. "Both the familiar and the strange are eloquently... Read more

The Diaries of Adam and Eve

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison & Cilla Harrison

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Adam had a fine life. He had all the food he wanted, a fine garden to live in, and miles and miles of peace and quiet. Until one day, a woman entered his life. And amongst her other garrulous qualities, she says that his beautiful garden doesn't really look like a garden at all. She thinks it looks more like a park. Read more

The Highwayman

By: Alfred Noyes

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A Highwayman ravages the countryside, robbing the unsuspecting traveler. He promises to come at midnight for Bess, the landlord’s daughter. But when the redcoats come, and lay a trap for the Highwayman at the inn, Bess warns her lover in a method and manner never to be forgotten. Read more

Swim Back to Me

By: Ann Packer

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course of a lifetime.

A wife struggles to make sense of her... Read more

Berenice

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Allan Poe pieces together the mind of a monomaniac, who is obsessed with the simple and mundane. He discovers, too late, that obsessions, though simple and mundane, can lead you to do unspeakable things. Read more

Very Good, Jeeves

By: Wayne Walker, Susie Hennessy, Novoneel Chakrabo...

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic short story collections in the English language. Whoever or whatever the cause of Bertie Wooster’s consternation―Bobbie Wickham giving away his fierce Aunt Agatha’s dog; getting into the bad books of Sir... Read more

All the Time in the World

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: John Rubinstein, Joshua Swanson & Jesse Bernstein

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World’s Fair, The March, and Homer & Langley, the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from... Read more

You Think That’s Bad

By: Jim Shepard

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Culling the vastness of experience—from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average—like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating. A “black world” operative can’t tell his wife a word about his daily activities, but... Read more

Stories for Children

By: Ted Hughes

Narrated by: Ted Hughes

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The best of Ted Hughes' writing for children, chosen by Michael Morpurgo and read by the author. Read more

Poe’s Detective

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Allan Poe is the undisputed originator of the detective story. His brilliant, imaginative sleuth C. Auguste Dupin set the stage for eccentric, logic wielding investigators like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. This audio collection of Poe’s three Dupin stories also includes one non-Dupin detective tale, “Thou Art the Man.” It features... Read more

Great Classic Family Favorites

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This inspiring anthology collects enduring and entertaining stories that have enthralled young and old, by the cherished authors whose tales have captivated children for generations. Perfect for the family car trip or at-home listening, these recordings sparkle with the wit and wonder of time-tested storytelling. This audio recording includes: -... Read more

Pick-Up Game

By: Marc Aronson & Charles R. Smith Jr.

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s one single steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as the Cage. Hotshot baller ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch-tall Chester. Nine of YA literature’s top writers... Read more

Going to Meet the Man

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“There’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads above water. It may be the heroin that... Read more

Johnny Morris Reads More Bedtime Stories (Vintage Beeb)

By: Johnny Morris

Narrated by: Johnny Morris

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen more charming animal stories, read by everyone's favourite zookeeper. The tales are: 1. Winkle, the Zoo Cat, is lost and found. 2. Nibble, the Squirrel, has his revenge. 3. The arrival of Otto, the German Giraffe. 4. Coconut, the Orang-Utan, has fun with the lawn. 5. Otto and Georgina, the Giraffes, give their tongues a rest. 6.... Read more

The Half Life

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Katie Finneran

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s short story, The Half Life, previously published in Redbook magazine is now available on audio.

From Redbook ’s Red-Hot Read series, a short story by the New York Times #1 bestselling author of In Her Shoes and Fly Away Home …

“My life is over,” Piper DeWitt thinks to herself, awaiting... Read more

While Mortals Sleep

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Kurt Vonnegut made his mark as one of America's most influential writers with novels such as Slaughterhouse- Five-named one of the 100 best English-language novels by Time. Published posthumously, While Mortals Sleep is a collection of 16 short stories, written early in Vonnegut's career, that further cements his status as an American literary... Read more

Electric Barracuda

By: Tim Dorsey

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dorsey differs from writers such as Carl Hiassen, James Hall, and Elmore Leonard…These guys fire bullets. Dorsey makes sure his gun is filled with hollow-point.”
—Sarasota Herald TribuneReaders who can’t get enough of lovable serial killer Serge A. Storms can rejoice. He’s back in Electric Barracuda—the latest outrageous romp through the... Read more

You Know When the Men Are Gone

By: Siobhan Fallon

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls. You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the men are gone. No more boots stomping above, no more football games turned up too high, and, best of all, no more front doors slamming before dawn as they... Read more

Virginia Woolf - Abridged

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Celia Johnson

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A celebration of an author regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Celia Johnson reads from To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway and Virginia Woolf is featured talking about modern literature. Read more

The Best of James Joyce - Abridged

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Emma Hignett

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A celebration of the work of one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Includes readings from Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake and Ulysses. Read more

Dubliners - Abridged

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Emma Hignett

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seven of the short stories in the collection called Dubliners read by Emma Hignett. Includes The Sisters, An Encounter, Dubliners Araby, Eveline, After The Race, Two Gallants, and A Little Cloud Read more

The Withered Arm

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Emma Hignett

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The most famous of Hardy's short stories from the collection Wessex Tales read by Emma Hignett Read more

Iggy and Me

By: Jenny Valentine

Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The first of a new series of young fiction by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Finding Violet Park. IGGY AND ME is a series of family stories featuring the mishaps and shenanigans of the irrepressible 5-year-old Iggy as seen through the eyes of her big sister Flo. ... Read more

Iggy and Me on Holiday

By: Jenny Valentine

Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

More adventures of the irrepressible Iggy as told by her sister Flo, by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Finding Violet Park. This is the third outing for Jenny Valentine’s endearing siblings, and this time they’re full of plans for the school holidays. Will they... Read more