Short Stories (single Author)
Bagombo Snuff Box
By: Kurt Vonnegut
From out of the blue, here's a new collection of Vonnegut fiction--his first magazine stories from the 1950s in book form at last, with some charming reminiscences (and three new endings for old stories) by the author. Vonnegut says these tales were...
Published: Jun 2007
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Kurt Vonnegut
Discs: 5
Joe Jones
By: Anne Lamott
Joe Jones is Anne Lamott's raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie's Cafe, 'a restaurant from another era, the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck or Saroyan.' Jessie, 'thin, stooped and gorgeous at...
Published: Sep 2003
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat
Discs: 8
Once Upon a Time, There Was You
By: Elizabeth Berg
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Home Safe and The Last Time I Saw You comes a beautiful and moving novel about a man and woman, long divorced, who rediscover the power of love and family in the midst of an unthinkable crisis. ...
Published: Apr 2011
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Elizabeth Berg
Kinsey and Me: Stories
By: Sue Grafton
In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey's...
Published: Jan 2013
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Judy Kaye
Discs: 6
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
By: Miranda July
In a series of stories that are shocking, sexy, charming, and ultimately unforgettable, Miranda July explores the hearts and minds of characters who are desperate for human connection and yet don't know what to do when it actually happens. In the...
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Miranda July
Discs: 5
The Mouse & His Child
By: Russell Hoban
The story of a father and son pair of wind-up toy mice. Seeking a life outside the toy store, father and son set out to explore the world. During their journey, the mice have many adventures--including run-ins with the evil Manny Rat and the wise...
Published: Jan 2003
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: William Dufris
Discs: 5
The Box: Uncanny Stories
By: Richard Matheson
What if every time you pushed a button you received $50,000...but someone you didn't know died? Would you still push the button? How many times?'Button, Button', which inspired a memorable Twilight Zone episode, is just one of a dozen...
Published: Oct 2009
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 4
The David Sedaris Box Set
By: David Sedaris
All of David Sedaris' best in one box set, now on CD and at 20% off the combined CD prices of individual titles! The set includes ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY with a full hour of bonus tracks not available on cassette; NAKED; HOLIDAYS ON ICE; and BARREL...
Published: Oct 2002
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Various
Discs: 14
Drive-by Comedy
By: George Carlin
'Perfect for traveling in the car, this CD offers quick wit from David Brenner, George Carlin, Margaret Cho, Al Franken, Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert.'
Published: Oct 2003
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Al Franken
Moral Disorder
By: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Eleven linked stories tell a woman's life story in MORAL DISORDER, a beguiling collection by the savagely talented Margaret Atwood. In stories ranging from childhood in the 1930s until old age in the 21st century, Atwood traces the minor tragedies...
Published: Sep 2006
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Susan Denaker
Discs: 6
Twelve Red Herrings
By: Jeffrey Archer
One of the world's great storytellers and author of the international bestseller Honor Among Thieves presents a collection of twelve inventive and ingeniously plotted stories. Each make superb use of 'red herrings', or misleading clues, and offer...
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Martin Jarvis
Discs: 3
Pilgrims
By: Elizabeth Gilbert
Gilbert's spry stories roam from Wyoming to New York City, from Minnesota to Texas. Cowboys, strippers, magicians--her characters are 'everyday people whose...rich exterior lives mask simple, if brave, hopes and dreams' (Detroit Free Press). 'A...
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 6
Cat O'Nine Tales
By: Jeffrey Archer
Cat ONine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller. Ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and Jeffrey Archers trademark of deliciously unexpected conclusions, some of these thirteen stories...
Published: Jun 2007
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Anton Lesser
Discs: 6
The John Cheever Audio Collection
By: John Cheever
Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, 'These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world...
Published: Jun 2003
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Meryl Streep
Wild Child: and Other Stories
By: T. Coraghessan Boyle
The fourteen stories in this rich new collection display T.C. Boyle s astonishing range and imaginative muscle. Nature is the dominant player in many of these stories, whether in the form of a catastrophic mudslide that allows a cynic to reclaim his...
Published: Jan 2010
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Be Announced To
Too Much Happiness: Stories
By: Alice Munro
Nine superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers.A young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her children from a most surprising source. In the aftermath of an unusual, humiliating...
Published: Nov 2009
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
The Elephant Vanishes
By: Haruki Murakami
An elephant vanishes; hunger drives a couple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world. This work presents a collection of short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist.
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: John Chancer
Discs: 8
A Quiver Full of Arrows
By: Jeffrey Archer
From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power and lives freed from the gloom of...
Published: Feb 2006
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Martin Jarvis
Discs: 3
Maeve Binchy: A Radio Collection: Four BBC Full-Cast Story Collections
By: Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy is one of the world's most popular storytellers, and these tales demonstrate all the warmth, wit, and compassion that have made her a bestselling author."Firefly Summer" is a moving, humorous story about a sleepy Irish...
Published: Nov 2010
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Full Cast
Discs: 6
This Is How You Lose Her
By: Junot Diaz
Junot Díaz burst into the literary world with IDrown, a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the "eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" (INewsweek). His eagerly awaited first novel, IThe Brief...
Published: Sep 2012
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 4
No Nightingales, No Snakes: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama (BBC Audio)
By: Maeve Binchy
These five stories feature modern Irishwomen emerging from a culture where they knew their place, into a more hazardous, but more rewarding light. In The Night People Came in for Something That Was No Trouble, Cara's envy of another couple's...
Published: Jun 2010
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
The Best American Short Stories 2001
By: Barbara Kingsolver
This year's Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Kingsolver's selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety...
Published: Oct 2001
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Rick Bass
20th Century Ghosts Low Price Unabridg
By: Joe Hill
A dazzlingly original, award-winning collection of visions and nightmares from the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every...
Published: Sep 2008
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: David LeDoux
Discs: 11
Animal Crackers: Stories
By: Hannah Tinti
In these eleven strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the title story, an elephant keeper courts danger from his gentle charge; in Miss Waldron's Red Colobus, a headstrong young...
Published: Jun 2009
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Laural Merlington and Dan John Miller
Discs: 5
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
By: David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish,...
Published: Sep 2009
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: John Krasinski
Discs: 7
Our Story Begins : New and Selected Stories
By: Tobias Wolff
A collection of potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, displays Wolffs mastery over a quarter century.
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Be Announced To
Discs: 11
I Am an Executioner: Love Stories
By:
In the unforgettable opener, 'The Infamous Bengal Ming,' a misunderstood tiger's affection for his keeper goes horribly awry. In 'Demons,' a woman tries to celebrate Thanksgiving after the sudden death of her husband, even though his corpse is...
Published: Apr 2012
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
I Am an Executioner: Love Stories
By:
In the unforgettable opener, 'The Infamous Bengal Ming,' a misunderstood tiger's affection for his keeper goes horribly awry. In 'Demons,' a woman tries to celebrate Thanksgiving after the sudden death of her husband, even though his corpse is...
Published: Apr 2012
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 1
Going to Meet the Man
By: James Baldwin
"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...
Published: Apr 2011
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Dion Graham
Discs: 7
The Best of Vintage Archers (BBC Audio)
By: BBC
Vintage highlights in the lives of favorite ongoing characters in this British soap opera broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The IArchers is the world's longest-running radio soap.
Published: Feb 2011
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Bbc Bbc
Discs: 2