Audiobooks with keyword Alternate History
This audiobook features Langston Hughes's vibrant and incisive short stories, narrated by J.D. Jackson, that explore the complex interactions between Black and white Americans in the 1920s and '30s, blending blues and jazz influences into a unique storytelling style.
This audiobook is an unabridged collection of thirteen short stories by Naomi Novik, featuring tales from her beloved series like Temeraire and the Scholomance, along with new stories exploring fantasy, myth, and science fiction. The collection offers a sneak peek into the world of her upcoming novel and explores themes of destiny and personal fulfillment.
This audiobook features a collection of Roberto Bolaño's posthumously discovered short works, read by André Santana. These unfinished tales explore themes of time, memory, and infinity, blurring the lines between fantasy, reality, and the incomplete.
This audiobook, "I Could Be Famous" by Sydney Rende and read by Rachel Angco, features ten stories about ambitious women pursuing their desires for more, interspersed with the downfall of a male superstar. The collection explores our obsession with perception and the ache to be adored, serving as a love letter to big ambitions and dissatisfactions.
Windeye
Read by Mauro Hantman
This collection features Brian Evenson's haunting and psychologically fierce tales that explore unsettling aspects of humanity through impossible scenarios and alternative realities. Discover stories of characters navigating worlds with mysterious disappearances and discrepancies between the real and imagined.
Brian Evenson's story collection explores a surreal, mundane human landscape filled with brutality and existential mystery. His Kafkaesque allegories delve into the disorienting nature of consciousness, reading, and writing, leaving listeners to grapple with their own interpretations of profound absence.
This audiobook features Brian Evenson's chilling tales, including the apocalyptic desert journey of "Dark Property" and the unnerving short stories of "Contagion and Other Stories." Evenson delivers intense, psychologically complex narratives that explore dark and grotesque worlds with taut prose.
"The Din of Celestial Birds" collects Brian Evenson's early, unsettling stories exploring themes of death, tyranny, and the uncanny in a haunting, abstract landscape. This unabridged audiobook offers a potent blend of bleak absurdity and vibrant magic realism.
This collection of sixteen stories by Steven Millhauser explores the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, blending unsettling realism, magical elements, and retellings of myths with wry humor and dazzling virtuosity. The unabridged audiobook delves into the darker aspects of human nature and the uncanny within the familiar.
This unabridged audiobook features Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser's acclaimed short stories, exploring dark humor and suspense driven by misdirected human desire and ambition. The collection showcases Millhauser's imaginative tales of mad artists, egomaniacal architects, and a peculiar historical society.
Autocorrect: Stories
By Etgar Keret
Read by Gilli Messer, Jennifer Rubins, Matt Godfrey ...
Etgar Keret's collection, narrated by multiple voices, offers darkly funny, surrealist stories exploring the human relationship with technology. These tales traverse diverse settings and human experiences, blending the absurd and profound to capture the uncertainty and fragility of our time.
This audiobook features Jorge Luis Borges's eclectic tales from diverse cultures, blending serious themes with playful wit, and showcasing his emergence as a unique literary voice. It's a collection filled with thrilling narratives of betrayal, revenge, and the sheer joy of storytelling.
This unabridged M4B audiobook features a collection of O. Henry's renowned short stories, read by Bob Thomley. It includes popular tales like "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Ransom of Red Chief," among many others, for a listening experience of over 14 hours.
This audiobook features a collection of O. Henry's classic short stories, known for their wit, wordplay, and twist endings. Narrated by Bob Thomley, it offers a comprehensive, unabridged reading of these beloved tales.
This collection of short stories, edited by Don Winslow, features gripping tales that hinge on pivotal moments, exploring themes of crime, friendship, and suspense through dramatic twists and chilling reveals. Narrated by a talented ensemble cast, it offers an unabridged journey of mystery and intrigue.
This audiobook presents a collection of twenty prizewinning short stories from the past year, curated by guest editor Edward P. Jones. It features celebrated authors alongside emerging voices, offering a diverse and cutting-edge literary experience with insights from the writers and a resource list for aspiring readers and writers.
This audiobook features Jorge Luis Borges's valedictory stories, including tales from *The Book of Sand* and other late writings, presented in a brilliant translation. It showcases Borges's signature blend of fantastic inventiveness with a direct style.
This collection of twenty boundary-pushing science fiction and fantasy stories, guest-edited by Nnedi Okorafor, explores diverse themes from robots seeking friendship to the valuation of life. The anthology promises to expand your mind with tales ranging from joyous to terrifying, fulfilling and defying genre expectations.
This unabridged audiobook features twenty short stories curated by Celeste Ng, exploring diverse human experiences and challenging listeners' values. The collection spans genres and settings, from the medically uncanny to the surreal edges of reality.
This audiobook features three poignant, award-winning stories by Ingvild Rishøi that explore themes of poverty, family, and resilience on the fringes of society. Narrated by Ulf Bjorklund and Jesse Vilinsky, these tales offer powerful portraits of courage, hope, and the difficult choices made to protect loved ones.
Sherwood Anderson's *Winesburg, Ohio* is an unabridged collection of interconnected short stories exploring the loneliness and hidden struggles of ordinary lives in a fictional Midwest town, offering a profound, timeless look at the human condition. Narrated by Christopher Ragland, this influential modernist work delves into the gap between inner truth and outward appearance with psychological depth and experimental style.
This audiobook features a collection of Brad Watson's published and unpublished stories, celebrated for their dark comedy, lyricism, and Southern gothic realism. The stories explore themes of male breakdown, young love, and peculiar encounters with nature, all delivered with wit, beauty, and a touch of the absurd.
This audiobook features Joy Williams' unique take on humanity's relationship with God through 99 short, fictional vignettes. Elisabeth Rodgers narrates this collection exploring the absurdity and darkness of everyday life as God appears in unexpected places.
Joy Williams' collection of ninety-nine connected stories, *Concerning the Future of Souls*, features Azrael, the angel of death, grappling with his task and encountering diverse beings as they face transcendence in an era of extinction. This philosophical and literary work explores the morality of mortality, leaving listeners wonderstruck.























