Short Stories audiobooks
Krik? Krak!
By: Edwidge Danticat
Narrated by: Robin Miles & Dion Graham
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
American Book Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat earned a National Book Award nomination for this brilliant collection of stories, which includes Pushcart Prize winner "Between the Pool and the Gardenias." A "remarkably gifted writer" (Publishers Weekly), Danticat examines the brutality of her native Haiti, particularly as it affects women,... Read more
View audiobookAtomic Lobster
By: Tim Dorsey
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Why is everyone rushing to flee Tampa on a cruise ship to hell?Serge is back with a bullet, torn between homicide and souvenirs. So is Coleman, torn between getting hammered and getting more hammered. Then there's good ol' Jim Davenport, the E-Team, the Diaz Brothers, and Johnny Vegas, the Accidental Virgin, cranking up the fevered action as the... Read more
View audiobookSacred and Profane
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. A nice reprieve from the grueling work of a homicide cop-until Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight...Two human skeletons, charred beyond... Read more
View audiobookCakewalk
By: Lee Smith
Narrated by: Linda Stephens, Tom Stechschulte & Kate Forbes
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Lee Smith, one of today's finest writers in the Southern literary tradition, has been compared to Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. This collection of nine stories, ranging from poignant ballads to delightfully inventive forms, showcases Smith's celebrated talent. The stories will make you chuckle and leave you with a satisfying sense that no... Read more
View audiobookBest of the South
By: Shannon Revenel
Narrated by: Carol Monda, Jonathan Hogan, Liz Morton, Cynthi...
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Continuing a two-decade tradition of excellence in literature, New Stories from the South presents the 20 best stories of from 1996 to 2005 selected by Anne Tyler. With such authors as Lee Smith, Judy Troy, William Gay, Stephen Coyne, Max Steele, Jill McCorkle and Chris Offutt, Best of the South elegantly portrays an old man's struggle with... Read more
View audiobookThe Deportees: and Other Stories
By: Roddy Doyle
Narrated by: Hugh Lee
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The eight tales in Roddy Doyle’s first-ever collection of stories have one thing in common: someone born in Ireland meets someone who has come to live there. New Boy describes the first day of school for a nine-year-old boy from Africa; while in The Pram, a terrifying ghost story, a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge’s older sisters... Read more
View audiobookSketches by Boz Volume 2
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Peter Joyce
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The ‘sketches’ in this volume are more the substance and length of short stories illustrating the development of the tools of the Masters trade: farce, parody, irony, black humour and wonderful one liners which unerringly hit the mark. The ensuing narrative, however, brings the listener bumpily back to earth with a reminder of the mean and often... Read more
View audiobookMothers 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
View audiobookStory 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookPorch 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
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
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
View audiobookDreamsongs
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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookAmélie 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
View audiobookNo 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
View audiobookA 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
View audiobookYoung 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookBernice 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
View audiobookA 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
View audiobookThe 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
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