Short Stories audiobooks

The Wily O'Reilly: Irish Country Stories

By: Patrick Taylor

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly made most readers' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour.

These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an early glimpse at the redoubtable Dr. O'Reilly as he... Read more

One More Thing

By: B. J. Novak

Narrated by: B. J. Novak, Mindy Kaling, Lena Dunham, Jenna F...

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, and Rainn Wilson

B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new... Read more

Ordinary Life

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this superb collection of short stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into remarkable moments in the lives of women, when memories and events come together to create a sense of coherence, understanding, and change. In “Ordinary Life,” Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for a week, shutting out her husband and the realities of their life... Read more

Christmas by Injunction

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Cherokee has struck it rich, and he decides to make Christmas extra special for the children of a nearby town. Unfortunately, there ARE no children in the nearby town. When the appreciative townspeople try to round up some kids from the surrounding towns, they inadvertently set the stage for a Christmas miracle for Cherokee.  Read more

A February Bride

By: Betsy St. Amant

Narrated by: Amber Quick

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.Allie left the love of her life at the altar—to save him from a lifetime of heartbreak. When a Valentine’s Day wedding brings them back together, she struggles against her family’s destructive history. Can Allie ever realize that a marriage is so... Read more

My Adventure in Norfolk

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A. J. Alan's delicious narrative of a strange adventure on a cold winter night in Norfolk. The narrator is spending a night in an unfamiliar bungalow on the Norfolk Broads. He hears the sound of a car outside, and on investigation finds a young woman whose vehicle has broken down. Attempts to fix the car fail, but they flag down a milk lorry... Read more

Tales to Remember

By: Various

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting collection of unforgettable tales by great classic authors.

"My Adventure in Norfolk", by A. J. Alan
"A Child’s Revenge", by Paul Bourget
"The Telephone at the Oratory", by Lord Halifax
"The Mother Stone", by John Galsworthy
"The Haunted Dolls’ House", by M. R. James
"Lost in a Pyramid", by Louisa May Alcott
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The Haunted Dolls' House

By: M.R. James

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mr. Dillet buys a breathtakingly beautiful antique dolls' house from a dealer, he is delighted with his purchase and has it installed in his bedroom at home. When he goes to bed, however, he hears a clock strike one and then a strange scene unfolds before his eyes, leading him into a vision from the past in which he unravels a mysterious... Read more

The Roman Road

By: Kenneth Grahame

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

All roads lead to Rome. The young boy telling this story cannot quite comprehend this assertion - but of one road, he is certain it is true. The Knights' Road, as he and his friends call it. A road without hedges or ditches, a road that heads straight over the downs with a purpose. One day he will set off to Rome along this road... but for the... Read more

The Hair

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

When the narrator finds a mysterious brass box in a curiosity shop, he is intrigued. It is heavy, round, and shaking it shows that it clearly contains something...but it cannot be opened. He buys the box and takes it home. With some effort, he manages to open it and discovers a plait of mysterious hair. After cleaning and examining the hair, he... Read more

Tales of Science Fiction

By: Scott Reeves

Narrated by: Scott Reeves

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen science fiction short stories by Scott Reeves.Ghost in the Machine —The mind of a dying man is transferred into a computer, sending him careening into an increasingly strange future at lightning-fast processor speed.Sunset, Sunrise — In man’s final days on Earth, the last man meets the first - Adam.Just Another Bloody Vampire Story — In... Read more

The Question of Bruno

By: Aleksandar Hemon

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir & Vikas Adam

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force—the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's—Aleksandar Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an... Read more

Forgiving the Angel

By: Jay Cantor

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In four stories that are a deft amalgam of fact and fiction, Jay Cantor captures the reverberations of Kafka's influences on the lives of some of the friends and lovers who survived him. Here is Kafka's last lover, Dora Diamant: their love opening out with both passion and pathos as he succumbs to tuberculosis...Max Brod, his friend and literary... Read more

Sweet Land Stories

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson & John Rubinstein

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how we live.

Ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D.C., these superb short works... Read more

After the Quake

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Rupert Degas, Teresa Gallagher & Adam Sims

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1995, the physical and social landscape of Japan was transformed by two events: the Kobe earthquake, in January, which destroyed thousands of lives, and the poison-gas attacks in the Tokyo subways in March, during the morning rush hour. Following these twin disasters, Haruki Murakami abandoned his life abroad and returned home to confront his... Read more

Contes et nouvelles

By: Nikolaï Gogol

Narrated by: Patrick Martinez Bournat

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

De très beaux textes où le réalisme côtoie le grotesque, le fantastique ou l'absurde et ne fait pas obstacle à un foisonnement imaginaire souvent débridé. Gogol, à travers ces "petites histoires", nous donne à découvrir sa vision de la société russe du XIXe siècle, une "peinture au scalpel" pleine d'ironie et souvent drôle. Nouvelles : La... Read more

“All You Zombies—”

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Spider Robinson

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring "All You Zombies—," the basis for the movie PredestinationThis collection from Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein includes five short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. The title story tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose origins—and relation to the young man—are more complex and... Read more

Tales of Para Handy

By: Neil Munro

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Neil Munro's captivating tales of Para Handy, captain of the "Vital Spark", the "smertest" steamboat ever to sail the River Clyde.

Whatever happened to the shaggy dog story? Very few, if any seem to be published these days. Maybe our lives are all too pressurised and full-on to allow us to kick back and listen to an engaging, diverting, well-told... Read more

A January Bride

By: Deborah Raney

Narrated by: Kristy Ragland

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.What will happen when novelist Madeleine Houser’s “pen pal” friendship with a lonely widower takes an unexpected turn?Who can work in a house that's overrun by contractors and carpenters? Not Madeleine Houser, a successful novelist who gladly... Read more

You Only Get Letters From Jail

By: Jodi Angel

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & T. Ryder Smith

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Jodi Angel' s second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after mom' s overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel's characters are motivated by muscle cars,... Read more

What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?

By: Avi

Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jeff Woodman & Christina Moore

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Eve is haunted by her dead cats, Willie is not content to turn a blind eye to suffering, and Maria carries on lengthy conversations with a silent caller. Theirs are the odd, but strangely realistic stories you will find in this collection. Avi's stories address real concerns in a way young people can relate to. Always entertaining, they broach... Read more

Desert Breakdown, 1968

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark's parents have never done a thing for him. When he got out of the army and married Krystal, they were against it, just as they are against his moving to Los Angeles. But Mark has a dream, a dream of being an entertainer, of having a show in Las Vegas. So he packs Krystal and their son, Hans, into their car and starts driving from Arizona to... Read more

Dreams of Terror and Death

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: various narrators, Robertson Dean, Simon Vance,...

Length: 20 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The only audio edition of Dreams of Terror and Death authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft Estate!This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales, such as:The Doom That Came to Sarnath—Hate, genocide, and a deadly curse... Read more

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Tobias Wolff's masterful short story about one woman's quiet revenge on the pomposity and arrogance of academiaMeticulous, funny, eccentric—Mary has always been mindful of the complex role she plays as a professor of history. Her lectures are carefully written out beforehand; her departmental loyalties ambiguous. She is so careful, in fact, that... Read more