Short Stories audiobooks

Mothers and Sons

By: Colm Tóibín

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning novelist Tóibín brings to this stunning first collection of short works an acute understanding of human frailty and longing. These nine beautifully written, intensely intimate stories explore the psychological push and pull between mother and son. Each story is centered on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of... Read more

Story Club Collection

By: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing Group

Narrated by: TianXuanXingHe

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Love is a pure and sincere emotion. Cupid may be blindfolded, yet it continually finds its way into people's hearts. Love, in essence, is recognizing others' "self" as one's own. Love is the enrichment of life, much like a cup brimming with wine. What matters is love, not being loved. Read more

The Ritual Bath

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.The crime was called in by Rina... Read more

Collected Stories

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Various

Length: 31 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner
 
Winner of the National Book Award

Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who... Read more

Porch Lies

By: Patricia McKissack

Narrated by: Pamella D'Pella, Adenrele Ojo & Mirron Willis

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm.

From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating introductions to... Read more

The Ransom of Red Chief

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first tale, we follow two workmen on an intriguing journey to Coney Island, where the heartsick and disgruntled Tobin has his palm read. Who knew that palmistry could be so unpredictable? Secondly, a tale of kidnapping gone awry.A little boy, self proclaimed "Red Chief", is taken from his home, and has so much fun he never wants to go... Read more

Amélie starts a band and other stories

By: Kim Hoffmeister

Narrated by: Kim Hoffmeister

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

These delightful stories are all about a naughty little French girl who lives with her family in Brittany, western France. The stories are narrated in English, but have plenty of French vocabulary and phrases dispersed into the story. This CD includes French vocabulary for; musical instruments, colours and zoo animals. The CD also includes two... Read more

Dreamsongs

By: George R. R. Martin

Narrated by: Various

Length: 51 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Dubbed "the American Tolkien" by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a selection of his shorter works, collected into this audio collection, offering fascinating insight... Read more

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections From The Frontier Stories, Volume 5

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer – who The Wall Street Journal recently compared with... Read more

No One Belongs Here More Than You

By: Miranda July

Narrated by: Miranda July

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Time, the bestselling debut story collection by the extraordinarily talented Miranda July, award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction.

In No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly... Read more

20th Century Ghosts

By: Joe Hill

Narrated by: David Ledoux

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him... Read more

A Christmas Dream

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Lauren Ambrose

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Two wonderful holiday stories that evoke the true meaning of the season.A Christmas Dream and How It Came TrueTen-year-old Effie lives the life most children dream of—with every day filled with delicious treats and wonderful toys. One night she experiences a dream that will forever change the meaning of Christmas for her. In it, she meets a... Read more

Young Goodman Brown

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

How long would you walk, if the Devil sauntered up to you of an evening, and journeyed alongside of you? Young Goodman Brown is led by the Devil to a midnight ritual, where fire, blood, and water change his opinions of the nature of humanity Read more

The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“I was sick, sick unto death with that long agony,” begins one of the most famous tales from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Through the tortures of the Spanish Inquisition, we follow the straying mind of an unnamed prisoner in his quest for hope in a world of darkness and despair. Read more

A Study in Emerald

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . . In a... Read more

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Bernice has rare beauty and wealth, but is undeniably socially awkward. Her cousin Marjorie does her best to make Bernice into a social vampire. Being a socialite in America in the 1920s, it seems to her that some of the more archaic feminine ideals need to go. Bernice's long, luxurious hair may need to go, too. Read more

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W

By: Gabriel Brownstein

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Brick, John Rubinstein, ...

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

These nine brilliantly inventive stories capture the eccentricities of the residents of Manhattan’s West 89th Street. Five stories are set in one apartment building, where young Davie Birnbaum watches his neighbors’ lives unfold. The title story reworks F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” with the hero fading away toward... Read more

Beowulf - Abridged

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: J.B. Bessinger

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's never been easy to be a hero. When Beowulf arrives at Hrothgar's hall, he discovers that the hall is beset by Grendel, an evil creature that kills and pillages with impunity. Beowulf, in heroic fashion, bests Grendel in combat, then follows Grendel back to his lair to finish the job.But Beowulf couldn't have counted on meeting Grendel's... Read more

Amélie Stories

By: Kim Hoffmeister

Narrated by: Kim Hoffmeister

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Amelie is a naughty little French girl who lives with Maman, Papa and little brother Louis in a small Breton village. Amelie likes to get her own way. Just what will she get up to next? These delightful stories are told in English, but include plenty of French vocabulary from native French speakers. Children will love the stories and delight in... Read more

Drown

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of eleven stories by a young writer evoke his hard-fought youth in the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the bleak urban landscapes of New Jersey, combining a journalist's dispassionate eye with an ear for poetry.

"This stunning collection of stories offers an unsentimental glimpse of life among the immigrants from the Dominican... Read more

Three-Ten to Yuma

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Henry Rollins, David Strathairn, Tom Wopat & Wi...

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From Elmore Leonard, the author who has influenced more writers than any other, comes a thrilling story of law in the Old West, upheld by the barrel of a six-gun.Deputy Paul Scallen will earn his one hundred fifty dollars if he can get his prisoner Jim Kidd on the train to Yuma Prison. But the members of Kidd's gang have determined that Scallen... Read more

The Lost Phoebe

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Tormented to distraction by the death of his true love, an old man embarks on a quixotic quest to find her. A tale that is tragic yet tender, Theodore Dreiser demonstrates the power of a love that bridges the gap between life and death. Read more

The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the eye. The dull, sightless, vulture's eye that shredded his final nerve. But the murder was done so carefully, so perfectly, that only one thing could reveal the whereabouts of the body. B. J. Harrison gives a masterful reading of the famous murder that wouldn't keep quiet. Read more

The Most Dangerous Game

By: Richard Connell

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious island, shrouded in fear, evil, and darkness. Here the amoral General Zaroff hunts. And what, you ask, is the most dangerous game? It is the manner and substance of his nightly killings. Read more