Florida
By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Lauren Groff
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds
In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "gorgeously weird and limber" (New Yorker), "frequently funny" (San Francisco... Read more
Fresh Ink
By: Lamar Giles
Narrated by: Guy Lockard, Kim Mai Guest, Bahni Turpin, Eric ...
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
All it takes to rewrite the rules is a little fresh ink in this remarkable YA anthology from thirteen of the most recognizable, diverse authors writing today including Nicola Yoon, Jason Reynolds, Melissa de la Cruz, and many more, and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books. This collection features ten short stories, a graphic... Read more
View audiobookVampires in the Lemon Grove
By: Karen Russell
Narrated by: Various
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.
In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested... Read more
Company
By: Shannon Sanders
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black familyShannon Sanders’s sparkling debut brings us into the company of the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, worry, keep and reveal secrets, build lives and careers, and endure. Moving from Atlantic City to... Read more
View audiobookPatricia Highsmith
By: Patricia Highsmith
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 27 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith’s classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book... Read more
View audiobookBirds of America
By: Lorrie Moore
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work today From the opening story, “Willing”—about a second-rate movie actress in her thirties who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human... Read more
View audiobookSelf-Help
By: Lorrie Moore
Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit.Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an... Read more
View audiobookNightmares & Dreamscapes
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Multiple readers
Length: 26 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Includes the story “It Grows on You”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine
The classic short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.
A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there’s no escaping the free nightly concert….A novelty toy becomes an... Read more
Oblivion
By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.
These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's... Read more
Like Life
By: Lorrie Moore
Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
In Like Life’s eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore’s characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can’t quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her... Read more
View audiobookNight at the Fiestas
By: Kirstin Valdez Quade
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
***National Book Foundation 2014 "5 Under 35" honoree*** Set in northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully rendered debut about living in a landscape shaped by love, loss, and violence. With intensity, dark humor, and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters... Read more
View audiobookJapanese Ghost Stories
By: Lafcadio Hearn
Narrated by: Eleanor Matsuura
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray.
In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the... Read more
The Maples Stories
By: John Updike
Narrated by: Peter Van Norden
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Collected together for the first time on audio, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published a story, "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of... Read more
View audiobookMidsummer Mysteries
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser, David Suchet & Joan Hickson
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Agatha Christie’s most famous characters—including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple—solve even the most devilish of conundrums as the sun beats down in this all-new summer themed collection from the Queen of Mystery. Summertime—as the temperature rises, so does the potential for evil. From Cornwall to the French Riviera, whether against a... Read more
View audiobookThe Office of Historical Corrections
By: Danielle Evans
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nicole Lewis, Brittany Pr...
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE 2021 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY O MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, THE WASHINGTON POST, REAL SIMPLE, THE GUARDIAN, AND MORE
FINALIST FOR: THE STORY PRIZE, THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE
“Sublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging . . . an extraordinary... Read more
Her Body and Other Parties
By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado... Read more
View audiobookUncommon Type
By: Tom Hanks
Narrated by: Tom Hanks
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.
A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and... Read more
The Collected Stories of Winnie-the-Pooh
By: A.A. Milne
Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Geof...
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNIE-THE-POOH
POOH GOES VISITING and other stories
Story 1 In which we are introduced
Story 2 In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
Story 3 In which Pooh and Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a Woozle
Story 4 In which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
Story 5 In which Piglet is entirely surrounded by water
Story 6 In... Read more
Lake of Souls
By: Ann Leckie
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 15 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, forever changing its landscape with her groundbreaking ideas and powerful voice. Now, available for the first time comes the complete collection of Leckie's short fiction, including a brand new novelette, “Lake of Souls.”
Journey across the stars of... Read more
Look Both Ways
By: Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms, Chris Chalk, Bahni Turpin...
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!
UK Carnegie Medal winner
A National Book Award Finalist
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
An NPR Favorite Book of 2019
A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2019
A Time Best Children’s Book of 2019
A Today Show Best Kids’ Book of 2019
A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2019
A School Library... Read more
A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: David Tennant, Claire Foy, Steffan Rhodri, Jon ...
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
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 and includes a foreword by Neil Gaiman. The audiobook is... Read more
View audiobookLife Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, variou...
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existenceWith Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan,... Read more
View audiobookHow Long 'til Black Future Month?
By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Shayna Small, Gail Nelson-Holgate, Robin Eller,...
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories.
"Marvelous and wide-ranging." -- Los Angeles... Read more
I, Robot
By: Isaac Asimov
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart.
“A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The Guardian
I, Robot, the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever... Read more