Verge
By: Lidia Yuknavitch
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Sophie Amoss, Michael Crouch, ...
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Bustle and Lit Hub
A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.
Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her... Read more
Selected Hemingway Stories
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
NEVER BEFORE ON AUDIO! ALL-NEW PRODUCTIONS OF TWENTY-FOUR CLASSIC ERNEST HEMINGWAY STORIES.
This brand-new audio collection from the iconic Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning author is a listener’s delight. The two dozen short stories presented here have never been published on audio; these new recordings of classic stories will remind listeners of... Read more
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
By: Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Narrated by: Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Baron Vaughn, James Urban...
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe.
Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s stories will make you laugh, weep, and shiver in... Read more
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
By: Helene Tursten
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Maud is an irascible eighty-eight-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and . . . no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss Investigation series, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement... Read more
View audiobookLot
By: Bryan Washington
Narrated by: Bryan Washington, Dion Graham, JD Jackson & Bah...
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year”
"Phenomenal" --Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"Brilliant" --Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun
“A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders.” —The New York Times Book Review
NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 in the New York Times by Dwight Garner
A New York... Read more
"Cat Person" and Other Stories
By: Kristen Roupenian
Narrated by: Aubrey Plaza, Jayme Mattler, Molly Pope, Will D...
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
*Includes the story “Cat Person”—now a major film*
A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny—connections between gender, sex, and power across genres.
“These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much.” —Carmen Maria Machado,... Read more
The Lonesome Bodybuilder
By: Yukiko Motoya
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, Erin Bennett, Ric...
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique―which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon―until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a... Read more
View audiobookWhite Dancing Elephants
By: Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha’s birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange “rescue” mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two... Read more
View audiobookYour Duck Is My Duck
By: Deborah Eisenberg
Narrated by: Deborah Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moor...
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight,... Read more
View audiobookHow Are You Going to Save Yourself
By: JM Holmes
Narrated by: Damien Christopher
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review).
Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young... Read more
Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine
By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Johanna Parker
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine, Kevin Wilson’s first story collection in nearly a decade, Wilson combines his signature quirkiness with his keen eye for emotional complexity to explore the fraught relationship between parents and children.“Wildfire Johnny” is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back in time.... Read more
View audiobookThe Reservoir Tapes
By: Jon McGregor
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Justine Eyre, Sarah Nichols, ...
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Returning us to the extraordinary territory of Jon McGregor’s Man Booker Prize long-listed novel Reservoir 13, The Reservoir Tapes take us deep into the heart of an English village that is trying to come to terms with what has happened on its watch.A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And... Read more
View audiobookIf You See Me, Don't Say Hi
By: Neel Patel
Narrated by: Neel Patel
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
"If You See Me, Don't Say Hi bristles with unexpected meetings and reunions, recognitions and failed recognitions, passions and estrangements of all kinds. These stories have a sharp eye for the complexities of modern life, but Neel Patel writes with the wisdom and compassion of an old soul." — Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more
View audiobookYou Think It, I'll Say It
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrated by: Emily Rankin & Mark Deakins
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
“Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible
“I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll find them going through these pivotal moments... Read more
The Sea Beast Takes a Lover
By: Michael Andreasen
Narrated by: Various
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
An astonishing fiction debut from a UC Irvine MFA graduate and recent contributor to The New Yorker.
Bewitching and playful, with its feet only slightly tethered to the world we know, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover explores hope, love, and loss across a series of surreal landscapes and wild metamorphoses. Just because Jenny was born without a head... Read more
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
By: Denis Johnson
Narrated by: Nick Offerman, Michael Shannon, Dermot Mulroney...
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most... Read more
The Refrigerator Monologues
By: Catherynne M. Valente
Narrated by: Karis A. Campbell
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics.
From the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who's ever been "refrigerated": comic... Read more
Sour Heart
By: Jenny Zhang
Narrated by: Greta Jung, Jenny Zhang, Kim Mai Guest, Nancy W...
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot Díaz
A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant... Read more
The Graybar Hotel
By: Curtis Dawkins
Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this “toughly courageous, unflinching, and unapologetic” (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut collection, Curtis Dawkins, an MFA graduate and convicted murderer serving life without parole, “takes us inside the worlds of prison and prisoners with stories that dazzle with their humor and insight, even as they describe a harsh and barren existence”... Read more
View audiobookChildren of the New World
By: Alexander Weinstein
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN
Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these... Read more
American Housewife
By: Helen Ellis
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney, Lisa Cordileone, Rebecca Lo...
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line.
Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They... Read more
I Am Legend, and Other Stories
By: Richard Matheson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean & Yuri Rasovsky
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In Matheson’s vampire classic I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and transformed the unfortunate survivors into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, hungry for Neville’s blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead... Read more
View audiobookA Bedtime Story and a Lullaby: Raggedy Ann and the Kittens & Wishing on a Star
By: Johnny Gruelle
Narrated by: Nicki White, Erik Blior & Fon Sakda
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Are you cosy? It's time for a bedtime story. Join us as we follow Raggedy Ann as she discovers a magical surprise in the story of "Raggedy Ann and the Kittens" by Johnny Gruelle. The drift off to sleep to the calming music box lullaby "Wishing on a Star" by Earth Fon Sakda. Read more
View audiobookFive-Minute Summer Stories
By: Enid Blyton
Narrated by: Heather Long & Sidney Chong
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A fun-filled collection of summer stories from the world's best-loved storyteller! Perfect for children aged 5 and up!
Are you ready for the sunny season? From trips to the seaside and royal balls to fairy tea parties and yummy picnics, celebrate the summer with this short story collection by Enid Blyton.
These traditional tales are ideal for... Read more