Short Stories audiobooks

Guys Read: My Parents Give My Bedroom To a Biker

By: Paul Feig

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for... Read more

Guys Read: Kid Appeal

By: David Lubar

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for... Read more

Guys Read: Unaccompanied Minors

By: Jeff Kinney

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for... Read more

Guys Read: Will

By: Adam Rex

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for... Read more

Guys Read: Your Question For Author Here

By: Jon Scieszka

Narrated by: Kate DiCamillo & Jon Scieszka

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for... Read more

Rikki Tikki Tavi

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The pages of The Jungle Book are opened, and a wild mongoose fights tooth and nail with deadly cobras. Read more

The Yellow Wallpaper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s just a hideously papered room. At least, that’s what everybody else thought. But when a woman suffering from a nervous condition is housed in the room, things begin to surface from the wallpaper. Things that seem familiar, but are best left quiet and undisturbed... Read more

Everything That Rises Must Converge

By: Flannery O’Connor

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Karen White, Mark Bramhall & L...

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O’Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment. The title story is a tragicomedy about social pride, racial bigotry, generational conflict, false... Read more

The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A savage earthquake shakes the world, waking a horror from the bowels of the earth. An ancient cult is discovered who worships an ancient demon whose name is Cthulhu. Read more

And Thereby Hangs a Tale

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Tragic, comic, outrageous—these fifteen stories in And Thereby Hangs a Tale from international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer showcase his remarkable talent for capturing an unforgettable moment in time…

In India, in "Caste-Off," a man and woman fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green on the streets of Delhi…

From Germany... Read more

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

By: Yiyun Li

Narrated by: James Yaegashi, Angela Lin, Jennifer Ikeda & Ja...

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Yiyun Li, honored as one of Granta's 21 Best Young American Novelists under age 35, continues her illustrious career with this insightful collection of short stories. With compelling visions of the scrapes and unpleasant situations in which people find themselves, Li's works trigger emotional responses of all types-whether through a tale... Read more

Jeeves and the Unwanted Guest

By: P.G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeeves stays his hand. Yes, that’s right. Even though a particularly well upholstered friend of Aunt Agatha chucks her bleary-eyed milk sot of a son Bertie for a month. Jeeves refuses to rally to the cause. Of course, if Bertie would simply throw out the offensive tie and hat, things might be smoothed over soon enough. But Bertie, just this... Read more

UR

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

FIRST TIME ON AUDIO...
An Unabridged Novella Unavailable In Any Collection!

Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology that made Cell a #1 bestseller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds.

Reeling from a painful break-up, English... Read more

Dracula's Guest

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This story coincides with April 30, or May Day’s Eve, when it was held that witches met on the Brocken mountain and kept communion with the Devil. It is named after St. Walburga, and English nun who helped convert Germans to Christianity in the 8th century. Her feast day coincides with an ancient pagan festival, whose rites were intended to give... Read more

The Theory of Light and Matter

By: Andrew Porter

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda, Luis Moreno, Jeff Brick, Joey C...

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a successor to John Cheever and Raymond Carver, Andrew Porter crafts plainspoken family dramas that audiences find completely enthralling. The 10 stories presented here further cement his position among America's finest short fiction authors. Read more

The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ghost that haunts Canterville Chase has built a marvelous career of midnight haunting. But when an American family moves in, they simply have no respect for permanent bloodstains, nightmarish chains nor ancient legends. They even throw pillows at him. Read more

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Tales

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a bridge at Owl Creek that is surrounded by dry and cracking driftwood. Burning the bridge would be the perfect way for a civilian Southerner to strike a blow against the Union Army. But Peyton Farkuar doesn’t make it that far. And instead, finds a rope around his neck. Read more

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

By: Maile Meloy

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter & Bronson Pinchot

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning writer Maile Meloy’s return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers.Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers. Propelled by a... Read more

Collected Fictions - Abridged

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. A selection of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered in this audiobook, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. These enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and... Read more

Christmas Tales

By: Cyril Smith

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

SYNOPSIS CHRISTMAS TALES are a variety of short stories, with a Christmas theme, for those who enjoy a short read as opposed to a full length novel and is suitable for all ages from “one to ninety two” (as in MEL TORME’S song.) Jinty the Chuffer would appeal to model Railway enthusiasts. Nelly Dean to those interested in wild... Read more

The Blue Cross

By: G.K. Chesterton

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Valentin, the greatest detective in the world, travels to London on the trail of the most elusive of villains. But a strange trail of clues leads Valentin through London and out into the country. It isn’t until the meandering journey’s end that the short, moon faced Father Brown sets Valentin back on his feet. Read more

Olalla

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

There is something wrong about the Spanish residencia on the hill. Some disregard it as only a house with a mad woman with her two children. Others claim that unspeakable things happen at night, when the house is in the shadows. When a wounded war hero takes refuge in this forbidding home, he slowly realizes that degenerate people tend to... Read more

Bran Mak Morn

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From Robert E. Howard's fertile imagination sprang some of fiction's greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard's characters, none embodied his creator's brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race.

In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the... Read more

Meet Christopher Columbus

By: Charles Margerison

Narrated by: Markus Hayes

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet, and be inspired by, Christopher Columbus; the great explorer, colonizer and navigator, as he reveals his own incredible story. Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean four times for the Spanish Monarchy, opening the American continents, which would become the 'New World' of colonization for Europe. These voyages spread Christian... Read more