Normal Rules Don't Apply
By: Kate Atkinson
Narrated by: Paterson Joseph
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
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
The Ones That Got Away
By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Rich Miller
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out.
A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exactly what she needs, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby monitor that shouldn't be... Read more
Old Babes in the Wood
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Linda Lavin, Dan Stevens, Kimb...
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together
"If you consider yourself an Atwood fan and have only read her novels: Get... Read more
Men Without Women
By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers" (Barack Obama).
Across seven... Read more
The Black Girl Survives in This One
By: Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell
Narrated by: Shayna Small & Tananarive Due
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a foreword by author, educator, and Jordan Peele collaborator, Tananarive Due.
A YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end
Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one.
Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and... Read more
Terminal Boredom
By: Izumi Suzuki
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon.
At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina.... Read more
I'll Give You a Reason
By: Annell López
Narrated by: Chanté McCormick & Torian Brackett
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The vibrant stories in I’ll Give You a Reason explore race, identity, connection, and belonging in the Ironbound, an immigrant neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. A young widow goes on her first date since her husband’s death and finds herself hunting a bear in the woods with a near stranger. An unhappy wife compares her mother’s love spells and... Read more
View audiobookThe Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Audio Collection - Abridged
By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. himself reads from his most celebrated works: Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and three complete stories from Welcome to the Monkey House. Read more
View audiobookGoing to Meet the Man
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“There’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads above water. It may be the heroin that... Read more
View audiobookArmageddon in Retrospect
By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Rip Torn
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace.
A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve previously unpublished writings. Imbued... Read more
Bark
By: Lorrie Moore
Narrated by: Lorrie Moore
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore" (Harper's).A literary event—a new collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short story writers, her first collection in fifteen years.In these... Read more
View audiobookThe Gathering Dark
By: Tori Bovalino
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg & Chanté McCormick
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
These are the stories that haunt us
A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the... Read more
Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges
Narrated by: Gerardo Prat
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
125.º ANIVERSARIO DE BORGES El libro fundamental de Jorge Luis Borges. Pensé en un laberinto, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros.Ficciones es posiblemente la obra más reconocida de Jorge Luis Borges y un hito en la historia de la literatura. Aquí se encuentran lo... Read more
View audiobookOther People We Married
By: Emma Straub
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Barrie Kreinik & Marin Ireland
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The beloved story collection from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Vacationers, All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow
In Other People We Married, Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit, vulnerability, and dazzling insight. In “Some People... Read more
The Wild Birds
By: Wendell Berry
Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
"Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don't get any better than these." —People
As part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue of his 1986 classic, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. Those stories include... Read more
Manual para mujeres de la limpieza
By: Lucia Berlin
Narrated by: Macarena Berlín
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
INOVILDABLE LUCIA BERLIN «Es mi libro con más páginas marcadas. Sus relatos son tan descarnados (sórdidos incluso) y tan divertidos que me tienta hacer algo con ellos».
Pedro Almodóvar Premi Llibreter Mejor Libro del Año según BabeliaDe los mejores libros del siglo XXI según Esquire Uno de los 40 libros imprescindibles escritos por mujeres... 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
Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders, Tina Fey, Michael McKean, Edi ...
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
MacArthur "genius" and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December
The “best short story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores... Read more
How 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
The 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
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
The Neil Gaiman Reader
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neil Gaiman, George Guidall, Lenny Henry & Leon...
Length: 27 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
An outstanding array—52 pieces in all—of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, curated by his readers around the world, and introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon JamesSpanning Gaiman’s career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a captivating... Read more
View audiobookThe Ice Cream Machine
By: Adam Rubin
Narrated by: Adam Rubin
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
From the wild and wonderful imagination of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dragons Love Tacos comes this hilarious, irresistible middle grade debut, a collection of six totally different stories with the same exact name.
Listener, be advised that the events in this audiobook may tickle your funny bone: A boy and his robot nanny travel... Read more
Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from Korean by Anton Hur, this collection shares tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality.
In “The Center for Immortality Research,” a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be... Read more