Short Stories audiobooks

Wild Child, and Other Stories

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

There may be no one better than T. C. Boyle at engaging, shocking, and ultimately gratifying readers while at the same time testing his characters’ emotional and physical endurance.The fourteen stories in this rich new collection display T. C. Boyle’s astonishing range and imaginative muscle. Nature is the dominant player in many of these... Read more

The Farmer’s Daughter

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Ray Porter & Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Harrison's numerous works have established him as one of the most beloved and popular authors in American fiction. His novel The English Major was a National Indie Bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Title, and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. This collection of novellas finds him writing at the height of his... Read more

War Dances

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: Sherman Alexie

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award winner and New York Times best-selling author Sherman Alexie infuses his writing with biting wit and poignant insight. As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric... Read more

Oddly Enough

By: Bruce Coville

Narrated by: The Full Cast Family

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The first of Bruce Coville's acclaimed "Oddlies". this collection of stories iss performed by some of Full Cast's favorite narrators (including Bruce himself). Some are funny, some are scary, some are both. The topics range from unicorns to werewolves, vampires to angels to brownies. Read more

Cruel Miracles

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Grover Gardner, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnick...

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features tales with religious themes, exploring the mysteries of ritual, sacrifice, faith, and death.Mortal GodsIn our mortality lies our greatness.Saving GraceA story of TV faith healers and those who follow them.Eye for EyeAn abused child has the gift of creating... Read more

Flux

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Orson Scott Card, Paul Boehmer, Arte Johnson, S...

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This second volume of Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race.A Thousand Deaths In Soviet-occupied America, Jerry Crove is found guilty and convicted of knowing about the planned assassination of a Russian high official and not reporting it to the... Read more

Identity Theft

By: Robert J. Sawyer

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Identity Theft is a hard-boiled detective novella set on Mars, writtenby the man Anne McCaffrey calls "an absolutely marvelous writer."Cassandra and Joshua Wilkins are fossil hunters who have both recently transferred their minds into artificial bodies, but now Joshua has mysteriously disappeared. Cassandra must hire Alex Lomax, the only private... Read more

A Case of Identity

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes hears the distressing tale of Miss Mary Sutherland. It seems that something unexpected and mysterious has happened to her fiancee, Hosmar Angel. Is it a simple case of cold feet? Holmes finds something far more diabolical, lurking deep beneath the surface. Read more

Brownsville

By: Oscar Casares

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Casares' debut collection of short stories was selected as an ALA Notable book and received tremendous praise from publications ranging from the New York Times and the Washington Post to Entertainment Weekly. These nine stories follow a collection of unforgettable characters trying to get by while living in the South Texas border town of... Read more

The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Twain was known as a great American short-story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known, displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism. The stories also show how Twain earned his place in American letters as a master writer in the... Read more

Big Country, Vol. 2

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L’Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a “big country needing big men and women to live in it.” Here are three more of his fine short stories about the West.West of the Tularosa Ruth Kermitt, owner of the Tumbling K ranch, made a deal with old Tom McCracken, owner of the Firebox spread, to buy his... Read more

A Good Fall

By: Ha Jin

Narrated by: a full cast, Tai Sammons, Ray Porter, Robertson...

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award-winner Ha Jin brings us a collection of stories that delve into the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America. All of Ha Jin’s characters struggle in situations that stir their conflicting desires to remain attached to their native land and traditions while also exploring their newfound social and economic freedoms.A... Read more

Too Much Happiness

By: Alice Munro

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.

In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating... Read more

Ford County: Stories

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: John Grisham

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.

Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond,... Read more

Say You're One of Them

By: Uwem Akpan

Narrated by: Robin Miles, Dion Graham & Kevin R. Free

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An Oprah's Book Club selection: this "electrifying" book (Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. 

Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately.... Read more

The Vampyre

By: John Polidori

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Young, impressionable Aubrey is fascinated by the enigmatic Lord Ruthven, and accompanies him on a tour to Europe. But Aubrey develops a growing distaste for Lord Ruthven’s sinister and grotesque conduct - especially as it concerns human blood.

This novella, penned during that tempestuous night in Switzerland amongst such notables as Percy... Read more

Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers.

Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These... Read more

Julip

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Ray Porter, Hillary Huber & William Hughes

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Harrison takes us on a journey of the human heart in three novellas in which the irresistible pull of nature becomes a magnificent backdrop for exploring the toughest questions about life and love.Julip follows a bright and resourceful young woman as she tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail after he shot three of her former lovers... Read more

The Suicide Run

By: William Styron

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction–including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. The Suicide Run collects five of these meticulously... Read more

O City of Broken Dreams

By: John Cheever

Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Performed by Blythe DannerHere is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York... Read more

The Swimmer

By: John Cheever

Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a... Read more

The Sorrows of Gin

By: John Cheever

Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a... Read more

The Season of Divorce

By: John Cheever

Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a... Read more

Preface

By: John Cheever

Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the preface to the twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still... Read more