Short Stories audiobooks

After the Funeral and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

Narrated by: Abigail Thaw

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships—Tessa Hadley is "one of the greatest stylists alive" (Ron Charles, Washington Post).

A Best Book of the Year: TIME, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vogue

“Hadley is pure magic and After the... Read more

A Long Time Dead

By: Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

With an introduction by Max Allan Collins: the first collection of stories starring legendary Mike Hammer, the toughest private investigator in historyIt starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform... Read more

The Whole Animal

By: Corinna Chong

Narrated by: Laura Miyata

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human. For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that explore bodies both human and animal: our fascination with their strange effluences,... Read more

The Islands

By: Dionne Irving

Narrated by: Chanté McCormick

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism on what they call the Island. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters. In one... Read more

Bliss Montage

By: Ling Ma

Narrated by: Katharine Chin

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Katharine Chin nails the dark humor and flat tone of this bizarre and fascinating short story collection."- AudioFile

A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages.

What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?

In Bliss... Read more

If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

Narrated by: Torian Brackett

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

"If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. There are no limits to where Jonathan Escoffery will go." —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House

"Torian Brackett's skillful narration fully embodies the family at the center of... Read more

Life Without Children

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Roddy Doyle

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you’re left feeling close to dazzled.” —Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review

A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize–winning author of... Read more

I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat

By: Christopher Gonzalez

Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Tony Chiroldes & Anthony Me...

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Long nights, empty stomachs, and impulsive cravings haunt these stories. A college grad reunites with a high-school crush when invited to his bachelor party, a lonely cat-sitter wreaks havoc on his friends' apartment, happy-hour french fries leave more than grease on lips and fingers, and, squeezed into a diner booth, one man eats past his limit... Read more

My Monticello

By: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Narrated by: Aja Naomi King, January LaVoy, Landon Woodson, ...

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An AudioFile Earphones Award winner

Read by a full cast of narrators, featuring LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King

“A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle

"...'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer... Read more

Filthy Animals

By: Brandon Taylor

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, Nicole Lewis & TL Thompson

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY, NPR, VULTURE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE TIMES OF LONDON, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction... Read more

We Two Alone

By: Jack Wang

Narrated by: Feodor Chin & Natalie Naudus

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Praised as “utterly remarkable” and “deeply resonant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces... Read more

Are You Enjoying?

By: Mira Sethi

Narrated by: Mira Sethi

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart.

From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly... Read more

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Narrated by: Kenny Ramos & DeLanna Studi

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride. Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.... Read more

Daddy

By: Emma Cline

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a “brilliant” (The New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.

“Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.”—Esquire

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

An absentee father collects his son... Read more

Maggie Brown & Others

By: Peter Orner

Narrated by: Peter Orner, Ari Fliakos & Brittany Pressley

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, each one "a marvel of concision and compassion" (Washington Post), Peter Orner, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and "master of his form" (New York Times), takes the short story to new heights.
 
Through forty-four compressed gems, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn't... Read more

How to Pronounce Knife

By: Souvankham Thammavongsa

Narrated by: James Tang & Kulap Vilaysack

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the New York Times' "7 New Books to Watch Out for in April," this revelatory story collection honors characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world." In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's debut collection, a young girl brings a book home from school and... Read more

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

Lot

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

White 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

Your 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

How 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