Short Stories audiobooks

Legends of the Fall

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America's most versatile and celebrated writers, Legends of the Fall is Jim Harrison's classic trilogy of epic novellas. The publication of this magnificent trilogy of short novels—Legends of the Fall, Revenge, and The Man Who Gave Up His Name—confirmed Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American writers of his... Read more

Upon Arrival

By: Cassandra R. Fowlie

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Celeste and Marla are the type of friends who know each others' thoughts without having to hear them spoken. So as the two friends sit and enjoy their weekly tradition of drinking tea in their favorite cafe, Marla knows that Celeste is particularly troubled by the mysterious woman who has appeared at the abandoned train station outside of the... Read more

The Christmas Cookie Collection

By: Lori Wilde

Narrated by: C. J. Critt

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Bestselling Author ofThe First Love Cookie Clubreturns to Twilight, Texas,with one brand-new story and three storiesnever before in print!There's a legend in Twilight, Texas. It says that if on Christmas you sleep with kismet cookies under your pillow and dream of your one true love, he will be your destiny.Carrie, Raylene,... Read more

Rags & Bones

By: Melissa Marr & Tim Pratt

Narrated by: Reay Kaplan, Mark Cabus & Bernard Setaro Clark

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The best writers of our generation retell classic tales.

From Sir Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene to E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," literature is filled with sexy, deadly, and downright twisted tales. In this collection, award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine their favorite classic stories, the ones that have inspired, awed,... Read more

Broken Silence

By: Karen Rose

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Watch Your Back comes a suspenseful new novella featuring Assistant State's Attorney Daphne Montgomery and Baltimore Special Agent Joseph Carter.After a traumatic kidnapping, Daphne's boss insists that she take time off. But she refuses to sit on the sidelines when she meets a six-year-old girl... Read more

Bartleby, the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Michael Lackey

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In Manhattan, an elderly lawyer's business is growing. Having two scriveners in his employ, the lawyer advertises for a third to meet demand. Enter Bartleby, a glum albeit quality scrivener. However, the lawyer quickly discovers that something is off with his new employee. When asked to perform any duties outside of copywriting, Bartleby... Read more

BBC National Short Story Award 2013

By: Various

Narrated by: Andrea Riseborough, Claire Skinner, Hattie Mora...

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The five shortlisted titles for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 administered in partnership with Booktrust, containing: 'Mrs Fox' by Sarah Hall (read by Andrea Riseborough), 'Barmouth' by Lisa Blower (read by Rebekah Staton), 'Prepositions' by Lionel Shriver (read by Nancy Crane), 'Notes from the House of Spirits' by Lucy Wood (read by... Read more

In Sunshine or In Shadow

By: Josh Lanyon

Narrated by: JM Badger, Adam Chase, Michael Oaks & Rob Granniss

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A listeners delight. Thirteen short stories--over fourteen hours--written between 2007 and 2013. Sexy, sweet, and occasionally strange, these brief but emotionally powerful stories encapsulate everything readers of Male Male mystery and romance have come to love most about Josh Lanyon's work.Includes "Perfect Day," "A Limited Engagement," "In... Read more

Great Crime Classics

By: William Russell, Edgar Allan Poe & Nathaniel Ha...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A treasure chest of the most popular classic crime stories from the 19th century.

The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins
Murder under the Microscope by William Russell
The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
The Mystery of Marie Roget by... Read more

Beastly Stories

By: W. W. Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe & O. Henry

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A beastly collection of animal stories from the great storytellers of the world.

The Black Poodle by F. Anstey
Mrs. Packletide's Tiger by Saki
Pickled Herring by W.W. Jacobs
Curried Cow by Ambrose Bierce
The She-Wolf by Saki
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
The Elk by Saki
The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain
... Read more

A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

T. C. Boyle is one of the most renowned storytellers of the modern era. This collection of fourteen stories drifts effortlessly between myth and reality, encompassing a panorama of human emotions. In "The Marlbane Manchester Musser Award," Boyle reveals a writer's dismay when a simple trip is turned upside down by a stranger. "Los Gigantes"... Read more

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

By: Ben Fountain

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human. Read more

The Twits, the Minpins & the Magic Finger

By: Roald Dahl

Narrated by: Richard Ayoade, Bill Bailey & Kate Winslet

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times


THE TWITS

How do you outwit a Twit?

Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything—except playing... Read more

Fifty Short Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry & Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty of the world's greatest classic short stories:

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
The One Million Pound Banknote by Mark Twain
The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling
The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
My Favorite Murder by Ambrose Bierce
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
... Read more

Sailors' Yarns

By: W. W. Jacobs, Joseph Conrad & Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A splendid collection of seafarers' tales.

"Choice Spirits", by W.W. Jacobs
"A Descent into the Maelström", by Edgar Allan Poe
"Pickled Herring", by W.W. Jacobs
"The Secret Sharer", by Joseph Conrad
"Mixed Relations", by W.W. Jacobs
"The Upper Berth", by F. Marion Crawford
"The Finest Story in the World", by Rudyard Kipling
... Read more

Someone Saved My Life Tonight - A Justice Security Short Story

By: T. M. Bilderback

Narrated by: Scott O'Neill

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

They're called the "grunts" - the uniformed officers of Justice Security. They don't have the cushy, highly publicized jobs held by the plainclothes members of the company - they're the people that appear in the background every day at banks, office buildings, and retail establishments, providing a secure environment for customers and... Read more

The World's Best Classic Short Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce & W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories, including:

'The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
'The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
'The Mezzotint' by M. R. James
'The Phantom Rickshaw' by Rudyard Kipling
'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy
'The Model Millionaire' by Oscar Wilde
'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W. Jacobs
'An... Read more

Nine Inches

By: Tom Perrotta

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning short story collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Tom Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear families

The new collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Perrotta's familiar... Read more

Tales of Rags and Riches

By: O. Henry, Katherine Mansfield & Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A fabulous collection of stories about the fabulously rich, the grindingly poor, sudden wealth, odd inheritances, greed and generosity.

The Inconsiderate Waiter by J.M. Barrie
The One Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain
Alf's Dream by W.W. Jacobs
One Thousand Dollars by O. Henry
The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde
In the Family by W.W. Jacobs
A... Read more

That's Why I'm The Soap Opera Writer

By: Matthew W. Grant

Narrated by: Jeannie Lin

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Go behind the scenes of popular soap opera To Live And Love in this humorous short story in which the backstage drama is more intense than what happens in front of the camera. Follow hopeful actor Robert Schwarzmann in his journey from a small town in Maine to the glitz and glamor lifestyle of daytime television in Hollywood,... Read more

Telling Stories

By: O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce & Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An engaging collection of short stories from some of the world's greatest racconteurs. Included are 'My Favorite Murder' by Ambrose Bierce; 'The Black Poodle' by F. Anstey; 'The Doll's House' by Katherine Mansfield; 'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W. Jacobs; 'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley; 'A Curious Dream' by Mark Twain; 'Regret' by Kate Chopin;... Read more

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor & Ellen Archer

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). 

"A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted.... His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever." —San Francisco Chronicle

Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an... Read more

Classic Humorous Stories

By: Hector Hugh Munro, Ambrose Bierce & Mark Twain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 24 of the best humorous stories ever written.

"The Inconsiderate Waiter", by J.M. Barrie
"Mrs. Packletide's Tiger", by Saki
"Curried Cow", by Ambrose Bierce
"Cannibalism in the Cars", by Mark Twain
"A Love Knot", by W.W. Jacobs
"A Bottomless Grave", by Ambrose Bierce
"Biffin on the Bassoon", by Harry Graham
"Esme",... Read more

Tales with a Twist

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce & W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A scintillating collection of tales with unexpected endings.

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
American Sir! By Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe
A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce
The Assignation by Edgar Allan Poe
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
... Read more