Short Stories bestsellers

Little Bible Stories

By: Various
Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle
Length: 39 minutes

Introducing youngsters to classic Bible stories, this collection features four beloved tales of courage, friendship and imagination! Kids will love hearing the story of David as he faces Goliath, and following Jonah, as they learn the importance of bravery. The Good Samaritan teaches kindness to all, while Joseph's coat of many colors leads him... Read more

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong & Renée Elise Goldsberry
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

“In this literal master class on literature and writing, Saunders earnestly yet playfully dissects 19th-century Russian short stories to discover how they exude life to this very day, while highlighting methods any aspiring writer can employ. The huge bonus: reading the wondrous stories themselves, and experiencing Tolstoy’s authority, Chekhov’s... Read more

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #4

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Voted by the British Crime Writers 1�7 Association as the ""Best Crime Novel of all Time""Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been... Read more

The Office of Historical Corrections

A Novella and Stories

By: Danielle Evans
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nicole Lewis, Brittany Pressley, Shayna Small, January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo & Janina Edwards
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

“I have been holding my breath for Danielle Evans 1�7 next book of short stories since Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, and The Office of Historical Corrections was worth the wait. She delivers the same great storytelling, insight, and sharp cultural commentary. Her touch on themes usually associated with older people, such as redemption,... Read more

Show Don't Tell

Stories

By: Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Curtis Sittenfeld, George Newbern, Xe Sands, Emily Rankin, Nicole Lewis & Kristen Sieh
Length: TBA

A funny, fiercely intelligent, and moving collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition—including a story that revisits the main character from Curtis Sittenfeld’s iconic novel Prep 1�7/i>from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic Comedy

“[Sittenfeld’s] perfectly contained stories are a joy.”�1�7�1�7i>Booklist,... Read more

Collected Fictions

By: Jorge Luis Borges
Narrated by: Castulo Guerra
Length: 27 hours 23 minutes

“One of the 20th century's most influential storytellers, Borges spins out elaborate dreams, literary mysteries, and self-referential fairy tales. A primary wellspring of the Magical Realist tradition. Read more

Exhalation

Stories

By: Ted Chiang
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon & Ted Chiang
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

“A spectacular collection, with too many standout stories for me to pick a favorite. The title story is perhaps the best exploration I've ever read of the nature of consciousness and the search for meaning. Chiang's writing is at once dizzyingly cerebral and profoundly heartbreaking, rooted in an unrestrained passion for scientific speculation... Read more

Afterparties

Stories

By: Anthony Veasna So
Narrated by: Jason Sean
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

“These stories of the members of a compact Cambodian-American community, from the refugees to the business owners to the gay teenagers, seamlessly balance humor with hardships. Read more

Bliss Montage

Stories

By: Ling Ma
Narrated by: Katharine Chin
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

“I'm not a big fan of short story collections - I inevitably get bored halfway through - but I loved Ling Ma's debut novel Severance, so I gave Bliss Montage a chance. I burned through the whole thing in a single day. Every piece has its merits, but I'm still mulling over the toxic friendship at the center of the story G (not to mention the drug... Read more

Galatea

By: Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Ruth Wilson
Length: 46 minutes

“Now officially published in this beautiful pocket-size gift edition, Madeline Miller’s retelling of Pygmalion (or My Fair Lady) myth is the perfect feminist sucker punch of a story to read in one sitting but continue thinking of long after. Read more

Five-Carat Soul

By: James McBride
Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Nile Bullock, Prentice Onayemi & Dominic Hoffman
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

“Sometimes after I've read a great book by an author, I judge. When I picked up a copy of James McBride's new collection of stories, Five-Carat Soul, I was prepared to be disappointed; how could he top The Good Lord Bird? Was I ever surprised, in the best way possible! These stories have all the magnificent qualities of his National Book... Read more

"Cat Person" and Other Stories

By: Kristen Roupenian
Narrated by: Aubrey Plaza, Jayme Mattler, Molly Pope, Will Damron, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Emily Tremaine, Finn Wittrock, Amy Ryan, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Corey Brill, Jacques Roy, Kristen Roupenian & Gibson Frazier
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

“I was completely enthralled with Kristen Roupenian’s ‘Cat Person 1�7 story in the New Yorker and couldn’t wait to pick up her collection. Like ‘Cat Person, 1�7 each story pushes boundaries, holding a magnifying glass up to social norms and what our society accepts. The writing is fantastic, and the cadence of each story is strikingly unique. This book... Read more

The Wind's Twelve Quarters

Stories

By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Amy Landon, Grover Gardner & Will Watt
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to... Read more

Children of the New World

Stories

By: Alexander Weinstein
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

“Imaginative and articulate, Children of the New World envisions fascinating technologies and the cultures shaped by them. As in the best speculative fiction, Weinstein's stories are driven by a longing for deeper answers: What defines us as human? How will we maintain this humanity as our lives become increasingly interwoven with the digital? I... Read more

Murder on the Orient Express

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #9

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

FROM THE INCOMPARABLE AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT!

“The murderer is with us—on the train now . . . 1�7br>
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward... Read more

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Thomas Ligotti
Narrated by: Jon Padgett & Linda Jones
Length: 21 hours 54 minutes

Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction 1�7 (The Washington Post)
 
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction.  Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of... Read more

The Hollow

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #24

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Agatha Christie’s classic, The Hollow, finds Poirot entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell’s country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife... Read more

James Herriot's Treasury for Children

Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small

By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Jim Dale
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Children have always found a delightful friend in James Herriot. His award-winning stories for young readers bring the farmyard world of Herriot's Yorkshire to vibrant life. Featuring a host of adorable animals and colorful townsfolk, each of the stories is narrated by the country vet himself, with all of the warmth, caring, and good humor that... Read more

A Caribbean Mystery

A Miss Marple Mystery

Miss Marple Mysteries: Book #9

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Joan Hickson
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

The delightful Miss Marple is ensnared in A Caribbean Mystery when a retired military man sparks her curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murdererAs Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever... Read more

Interpreter of Maladies

By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Matilda Novak
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations.



In A Temporary Matter, published in the New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a... Read more

Normal Rules Don't Apply

Stories

By: Kate Atkinson
Narrated by: Paterson Joseph
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.

Nothing... Read more

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

And Other Stories

By: GennaRose Nethercott
Narrated by: GennaRose Nethercott, January LaVoy, Gabra Zackman, Max Meyers & Elena Rey
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR  1�7 From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us—or go monstrously wrong.

“Real magic, real delight, doled out generously in the shape of wistful, ferocious,... Read more

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

By: Susanna Clarke
Narrated by: Davina Porter & Simon Prebble
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke delivers a delicious collection of ten stories set in the same fairy-crossed world of 19th-century England. With Clarke's characteristic historical detail and diction, these dark, enchanting tales unfold in a slightly... Read more

A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett
Narrated by: Casey Plett
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

A new edition of the acclaimed debut story collection by two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Plett. From the author of Little Fish (Amazon First Novel Award Winner, 2019) and A Dream of a Woman comes eleven unique short stories featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love in settings ranging from a... Read more

Flying Lessons & Other Stories

By: Ellen Oh
Narrated by: Ellen Oh, Kwame Alexander, Meg Medina, Dion Graham, Samantha Quan, Julia Whelan, Adam Lazarre-White, Tim Tingle, Abigail Revasch, Sunil Malhotra & Dominic Hoffman
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold anthology—written by the best children’s authors—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.
 
In a partnership with We Need Diverse Books, industry giants Kwame Alexander, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Tim Federle, Grace Lin, Meg... Read more

This Is How You Lose Her

By: Junot Díaz
Narrated by: Junot Díaz
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Finalist for the 2012 National Book AwardA Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012
Finalist for the 2012 Story Prize
Chosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more... 

"Electrifying."  1�7i>The New York Times Book... Read more

A Murder Is Announced

A Miss Marple Mystery

Miss Marple Mysteries: Book #4

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Joan Hickson
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.”A childish... Read more

Broken Throne: A Red Queen Collection

Red Queen

By: Victoria Aveyard
Narrated by: Amanda Dolan, Vikas Adam, Charlie Thurston, Erin Spencer, Andi Arndt, Jayne Entwistle, Nick Podehl, Emily Woo Zeller, Arielle DeLisle & Stephen Graybill
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Return once more to the deadly and dazzling world of Red Queen in Broken Throne, a must-have companion to the chart-topping series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard.The perfect addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, this features three brand-new novellas, two previously published novellas, Steel... Read more

The Love Object

Selected Stories

By: Edna O'Brien
Narrated by: Catherine McGoohan
Length: 19 hours 58 minutes

Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master" (Harold Bloom).

As John Banville writes in his introduction to The Love Object, Edna O'Brien "is, simply, one of the finest writers of our time." The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative... Read more

Cuentos completos

By: Beatrix Potter
Narrated by: Mario Gas, Guillermo Romero, Irene Montalà, Laura Prats, María Luisa Solá & Iván Priego Posada
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Reunidos en un solo audiolibro todos los cuentos y poesías de Beatrix Potter. Este audiolibro reúne los veintitrés cuentos y poesías de Beatrix Potter. Los textos están completos y sin abreviar, colocados en el orden en que se publicaron por primera vez, para que puedan ser escuchados en la secuencia adecuada, pues, aunque cada historia es... Read more

She's Always Hungry

'Playful, sometimes depraved and often laugh-out-loud funny' Colin Walsh

By: Eliza Clark
Narrated by: Chipo Chung, Eliza Clark, Kevin Shen, Natalie Simpson & Sam Stafford
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Visceral, speculative body horror from the author of BOY PARTS and PENANCE - the first collection from a major voice in British fiction A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Each of these characters has a desperate desire. Can any of them be... Read more

Full Dark, No Stars

featuring 1922, now a Netflix film

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Craig Wasson & Jessica Hecht
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes... Read more

Octopussy and the Living Daylights

A James Bond Adventure

James Bond: Book #14

By: Ian Fleming
Narrated by: Ben Willbond
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

FOUR TALES OF INTRIGUE THAT PUSH 007 TO THE LIMITIn “Octopussy, 1�7 a former operative in the Second World War must face the consequences of past sins when James Bond knocks on the door of his Caribbean fortress, and in “The Property of a Lady 1�7 Bond deciphers the elaborate codes of a Sotheby’s bidding war in order to catch a KGB agent.  1�77 in New... Read more

Everything's Eventual

Five Dark Tales

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Oliver Platt & Judith Ivey
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

An iconic, spine-tingling story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

“Everything’s Eventual 1�7 features Dinky Earnshaw—a nineteen-year-old pizza delivery boy 1�7 who gets hired by a mysterious stranger for a unique and totally “eventual 1�7 (awesome) job.

“Autopsy Room Four: 1�7 The last thing Howard Cottrell remembers is... Read more

Florida

By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Lauren Groff
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

“This collection of short stories take place in Florida, but this is no Disney World! Dog snatching alligators, hurricanes and lurking panthers-just a few of the dangers in this well crafted book. I especially enjoyed "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners" Read more

The Velveteen Rabbit

By: Margery Williams
Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne
Length: 29 minutes

This classic and moving story shines light on the supernatural powers of genuine love.  Margery Williams beautifully portrays the desire to be fully known and fully loved as the thing that makes one feel most real.  The little toy rabbit, forgotten and aging, learns he can only truly experience life through the love of a child.  After finally... Read more

Hallowe'en Party

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #35

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, coming in 2023!In this authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, a Halloween Party turns deadly, and it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer.At a Halloween party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a... Read more

A Stroke of the Pen

The Lost Stories

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: David Tennant, Claire Foy, Steffan Rhodri, Jon Culshaw, David Jason, Katherine Parkinson, Paterson Joseph, Indira Varma, Tony Robinson, Nigel Planer, Stephen Briggs & Rhianna Pratchett
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

A delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry Pratchett, the award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld fantasy series. This special trove is a must-have for Pratchett fans of all ages. The audiobook is narrated by a stunning cast that includes... Read more

White Cat, Black Dog

Stories

By: Kelly Link
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Dan Stevens, Dominic Hoffman, Kristen Sieh, Ish Klein, Tanya Cubric & Patton Oswalt
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

“Kelly Link is a national treasure. These stories are like prismatically unsettled and modern versions of familiar tales, equipping each eerie element with a hefty dose of the banal, like any of these tales can happen in your living room--even if they're mired in a post-apocalyptic wasteland or peopled by robots on an abandoned asteroid. Stunning... Read more

Back To School Bundle

DayDreaming Children's Book Bundles: Book #1

By: The DayDreaming Network
Narrated by: DayDreaming Narrators
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

This collection of Children's Audiobook includes these amazing titles: Walkout by Tina Shepardson Jane Escapes to the Jungle of Individuality by Jennifer Nestor Dax's Adventures by Tyrice Cartwright Speechless by Thomas Ray Garcia and Matt Eventoff The Flower Girl by Nicole Patrice Thomas The Girl Dad by Liesl Schuh Queen Vernita Finds More... Read more

Sad Cypress

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #20

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet
Length: 6 hours 1 minute

In Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery Sad Cypress, a woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Hercule Poirot stands between her and the gallows.Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning:... Read more

Uncommon Type

Some Stories

By: Tom Hanks
Narrated by: Tom Hanks
Length: 10 hours 1 minute

“I used my monthly Libro.fm membership credit on the digital audio edition of this acclaimed short story collection, which is read by Tom Hanks himself. I’m a few stories in, and Hanks is such a fantastic performer of his work. This would be perfect for a long drive to the beach. (Or, if you’re like me, save it for the drive home so you won’t... Read more

Liberation Day

Stories

By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders, Tina Fey, Michael McKean, Edi Patterson, Jenny Slate, Jack McBrayer, Melora Hardin & Stephen Root
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

“The stories are creative and well written, although can be a bit dark! This audio version is a must listen however. The various actors that read are all fabulous. It was such fun listening, I listened to some twice! Read more

Murder on the Orient Express

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #9

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Dan Stevens
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME 1�7strong>NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT! “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment,... Read more