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Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Dog Days


Greg Heffley is looking forward to a lazy summer filled with video games and indoor relaxation, but his mom has other plans—ones that involve sunshine, family bonding, and way too much time outdoors. From disastrous trips to the local pool to a failed lawn care business with his best friend Rowley, Greg’s summer quickly spirals into a series of hilarious misadventures as he navigates the chaos of dog ownership, family drama, and the perils of growing up.

 

 
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  A Casual Affair  by W. Somerset Maugham
(23 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  A Dream of Armageddon  by H.G. Wells
Part 1   (33 min. at normal speed)
Part 2   (34 min. at normal speed)
  'A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas in a Foreign Land'  
by David Sedaris
(Length = 20 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  A Little Cloud by James Joyce
(Listening time = 29 to 36 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  A Manual for Cleaning Women  by Lucia Berlin
(Length = 29 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  A Mother by James Joyce
(Listening time = 30 to 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
 
Animal Rescue by Dennis Lehane
Part 1 (23-29 minutes) Part 2 (25-31 minutes) 
  A Painful Case by James Joyce
(Listening time = 25 to 31 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury 
   Part 1  (17 to 21 min.)       Part 2  (18 to 22 min.)
  A Study in Emerald
by Neil Gaiman
   (49 to 65 min.)
  A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. by Carson McCullers
(Listening time = 22 min. at normal speed)
  Afterlife by Stephen King
(34 to 41 minutes long, depending on chosen listening speed)
  Agatha's First Case  by M.C. Beaton
Part 1  (19 to 23 min.)     Part 2  (9 to 10 min.)    Part 3  (11 to 14 min.)  Part 4  (12 to 14 min.)
  Almost The Last Story By Almost The Last Man  by Scott Edelman
Part 1  (26 to 35 min)   Part 2  (24 to 32 min)  Part 3  (23 to 31 min)
  Animal Rescue   by Dennis Lehane
Part One  (26 min. at normal speed)
Part Two  (30 min. at normal speed)
  An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge  by Ambrose Bierce
(Total listening time = 29 minutes at normal speed)
  Araby by James Joyce
(Listening time = 13 to 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Part 1  (23 to 29 min)    Part 2  (24 to 31 min)  
  Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in The Mystery
of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms
  by Jack Campbell
Part One   (27 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Part Two   (26 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Three  (24 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Big Blonde by Dorothy Parker
Part 1  (29 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part 2
 (27 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  Blood Drive  by John Grisham
Part One  (24 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (26 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Three  (24 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Blood Pressure by Damon Runyon
(Listening time = 34 min. at normal speed)
  Breaking and Entering  by Sherman Alexie
(Length = 28 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  Car Crash While Hitchhiking  (13-15 minutes) Emergency  (23-28 minutes)
by Denis Johnson  (Two stories from Denis Johnson's book of eleven short stories - Jesus' Son.)
  Car Wars by Cory Doctorow
(Total listening time = 36 minutes at normal speed)
  Case of Smith vs. Jones & Cannibalism in the Cars   by Mark Twain
("Cannibalism" = 26 to 31 minutes)   ("Smith vs. Jones" = 16 to 19 minutes)
  Christmas Crumble  by M.C. Beaton
Part 1  (32 to 38 min.)       Part 2  (36 to 42 min.)
  Christmas Even by Michael Connelly
Part 1  (27 to 32 min.)         Part 2  (27 to 32 min.)
  Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest  by Sherman Alexie
(Length = 20 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  Close Behind Him by John Wyndham
Part One  (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey by Haruki Murakami
Part One  (19 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Confido by Kurt Vonnegut 
(Listening time = 29 to 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
 
  Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket  by Jack Finney
Part 1  (25 to 30 min)    Part 2  (23 to 27 min)  
  Crazy Sunday by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Listening time = 40 to 51 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  Creation. by Don DeLillo
Part One  (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two   (20 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Crouch End  by Stephen King
Part 1   (25 min. at normal speed) 
Part 2   (23 min. at normal speed)
Part 3   (23 min. at normal speed)
 

David Sedaris in Paris  -  Three humorous short stories
Me Talk Pretty One Day    (12 min. at normal speed)
Make That a Double    (7 min. at normal speed)
I Pledge Allegiance to the Bag    (12 min. at normal speed)

  Debarking  by Lorrie Moore
Part One  (21 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (19 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Three  (21 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Four  (19 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Duel by Richard Matheson
Part 1  (19 to 26 min)     
Part 2  (21 to 28 min)     Part 3  (22 to 29 min)
  Ecclesiastes by The Son of David, King in Jerusalem
(Listening time = 13 to 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  Eveline by James Joyce
(Listening time = 13 to 16 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  Fantastic Mr. Fox  by Roald Dahl
Part 1   (19 min. at normal speed) 
Part 2   (19 min. at normal speed)
Part 3   (25 min. at normal speed)
  Farmer Giles of Ham   by J.R.R. Tolkien
Part 1 (26 min. at normal speed) 
Part 2
(27 min. at normal speed) 
Part 3 (26 min. at normal speed)
Part 4 (28 min. at normal speed)
  Five Short Stories by Raymond Carver
  1) - I Could See the Smallest Things   (25-31 minutes)         
  2) - Mr. Coffee & Mr. Fix-it
    (6-7 minutes)
  3) - Sacks  (15-19 minutes)       
  4) - So Much Water So Close To Home
  (16-20 minutes) 
  5) - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
 (31-39 minutes)
  Five Stories by Kate Chopin
A Respectable Woman  (11 min. at normal speed) 
A Pair of Silk Stockings  (13 min. at normal speed)

The Story of an Hour   (7 min. at normal speed) 
The Kiss   (8 min. at normal speed) 
Ma'ame Pélagie  (22 min. at normal speed) 
  Five Stories by Ruskin Bond
The Cherry Tree   (10 min. at normal speed) 
The Night Train at Deoli   (9 min. at normal speed) 
The Woman on Platform 8  (10 min. at normal speed) 
The Prospect of Flowers  (13 min. at normal speed) 
The Thief   (12 min. at normal speed)
  Five Short Stories by Saki -    1) Gabriel-Ernest     —  (18 to 21 min.)  
2) Sredni Vashtar    —  (15 to 18 min.)   3) The Penance       —  (17 to 20 min.)
4) The Story-Teller  —  (13 to 15 min.)    5) Tobermory           —  (21 to 25 min.)
  Foster ('The Quiet Girl')  by Claire Keegan
Part 1   (27 min. at normal speed)
Part 2   (38 min. at normal speed)
Part 3   (21 min. at normal speed)
  Four Short Short Stories by Anton Chekhov   
1) - Hush!   (28 to 36 minutes)  
2) - The Chorus Girl  (28 to 36 minutes)   
3) - The Beggar  (28 to 36 minutes)   
4) - The Trousseau
(28 to 36 minutes)
  Four Stories For The Winter Festivities and Holidays
 The Gift of the Magi     (Listening time = 12 to 16 minutes)
 Santaland Diaries     (Listening time = 6 to 8 minutes)
 Matchless: A Christmas Story     (Listening time = 21 to 26 minutes)
 Wolf Christmas     (Listening time = 6 to 7 minutes)
  Grace Notes by Sara Paretsky
Part 1  (20 to 25 min)   Part 2 (22 to 27 min)  Part 3  (19 to 23 min)     Part 4  (20 to 25 min)
  Greenshaw's Folly. by Agatha Christie
Part One  (32 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (22 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Harrington and Whitehill by John O'Hara
Part 1 (19 to 23 min.)     Part 2  (21 to 25 min.)       Part 3  (19 to 23 min.)
  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
Part One (24 to 30 min.)  Part Two (25 to 31 min.)  Part Three (25 to 32 min.)  Part Four (22 to 27 min.)
 
Herman Wouk Is Still Alive by Stephen King
Part 1 - 2 (22 to 26 min.)      Part 3 - 6 (22 to 26 min.)
  Homage to Switzerland  by Ernest Hemingway
(Length = 23 to 28 min.depending on chosen listening speed)
  How to Talk to Girls at Parties   by Neil Gaiman
(Listening time = 30 min. at normal speed)
  Human Readable  by Cory Doctorow
Part One (26 to 31 min.)  Part Two (26 to 31 min.)  Part Three (23 to 27 min.)  Part Four (16 to 19 min.)
  I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Part 1  (22 to 27 min.)    Part 2  (15 to 19 min.)
  I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon by Philip K. Dick
Part One (24 to 28 min.)  Part Two (22 to 26 min.)
  I Know What You Need   by Stephen King
Part One   (27 min. at normal speed)
Part Two   (28 min. at normal speed)
  I Survived The Great Molasses Flood of 1919  by Lauren Tarshis
  Jane in Search of a Job    by Agatha Christie
Part One  (22 min. at normal speed)
Part Two     (22 min. at normal speed)
  Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo
(Listening time = 1 hour 20 minutes at normal speed)
  Laurie by Stephen King
Part 1  (25 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part 2
 (28 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  Long Lost by Jeffrey Archer
Part 1
 (23 to 29 min.)    Part 2  (17 to 22 min.)     Part 3  (24 to 30 min.)    Part 4  (20 to 25 min.)
  Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
Chapter 1  (23 to 29 min)    Chapter 2  (7 to 9 min)   
Chapter 3  (16 to 21 min)    Chapter 4  (6 to 8 min)   
Chapter 5  (23 to 29 min)    Chapter 6  (3 to 4 min)
  Lullaby   by Anna North
Part One  (23 min. at normal speed)
Part Two  (23 min. at normal speed)
  Midnights by Rainbow Rowell
Part 1 (Listening time = 23 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
Part 2
( Listening time = 27 minutes - more or less depending on chosen listening speed)
  Mind Partner   by Christopher Anvil
Part One   (28 min. at normal speed)
Part Two   (26 min. at normal speed)
Part Thee   (29 min. at normal speed)
  Miss Attila the Hun   by Dean Koontz
Part One  (32 min. at normal speed)
Part Two  (29 min. at normal speed
  Monsieur Rose by Irène Némirovsky
Part 1  (21 to 26 min)    Part 2  (21 to 25 min)
  Mr. Cosway and the Landlady by Wilkie Collins
Part One (22 to 26 min.)      Part Two (19 to 23 min.)          Part Three (18 to 21 min.)
  Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut by Stephen King
Part 1  (24 to 30 min.)    Part 2  (25 to 32 min.)       Part 3  (22 to 29 min.)
  My Father's Dragon  by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Part One  (24 min. at normal speed)
Part Two   (23 min. at normal speed)
  Neighbors by Megan Lindholm
(Total listening time = 36 minutes at normal speed)
  Nettles by Alice Munro
Part One (19 to 23 min.)      Part Two  (23 to 27 min.)       Part Three  (19 to 23 min.)
  No Comebacks  by Frederick Forsyth
Part 1   (24 min. at normal speed)
Part 2   (26 min. at normal speed)
  No Time Left by David Baldacci
(Length = 34 to 41 min.depending on chosen listening speed)
  Night Surf (22 to 26 min.)   and    
I Am the Doorway (33 to 39 min.)
 - Two storie by Stephen King
  Obits by Stephen King
Part One  (30 min. at normal speed) 
Part Two  (28 min. at normal speed) 
Part Three  (39 min. at normal speed) 
  October in the Chair
by Neil Gaiman   (28 to 36 min.depending on chosen listening speed)
  Office at Night  by Warren Moore
(Length = 31 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  Old Indian Trick    (16 to 19 minutes)      Ministerial Aid    (22 to 26 minutes)
Two Sheriff Walt Longmire stories by Craig Johnson
  Philomel Cottage by Agatha Christie
Part 1 (16-20 minutes)   Part 2 (17-21 minutes)   Part 3  (17-21 minutes)
  Pros and Cons. by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
Part One  (19 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two   (21 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Quitters, Inc. by Stephen King
Part One  (24 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (24 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
 
Rain  by W. Somerset Maugham
Part One (24 to 29 min.)  Part Two (23 to 28 min.)  Part Three (24 to 29 min.)  Part Four (26 to 31 min.)
  Rip Van Winkle   by Washington Irving
Part One  (25 min. at normal speed) 
Part Two  (18 min. at normal speed) 
  Rooms by the Sea by Nicholas Christopher
Part One  (20 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two   (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Safety First by Sara Paretsky
(Listening time = 36 min. at normal speed)
  Salt
by Sherman Alexie      (32 to 38 min. )
  Sanctuary by Agatha Christie
Part One  ( 25 to 31 minutes)     Part Two  (19 to 24 minutes)
  Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris
Part 1 (22 min. at normal speed) 
Part 2
(21 min. at normal speed) 
Part 3 (22 min. at normal speed)
  Season's Greetings  by David Sedaris
  [ ADVISORY: Contains adult content, adult language ]  (Length = 38 to 45 min.depending on chosen listening speed)
  Slouching Towards Bethlehem    by Joan Didion
Part One   (37 min. at normal speed)
Part Two   (36 min. at normal speed)
  Small Things Like These  by Claire Keegan
  Smith of Wootton Major   by J.R.R. Tolkien
Part One   (19 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Part Two   (24 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Three  (23 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Sneakers   by Stephen King
Part One  (18 min. at normal speed) 
Part Two  (18 min. at normal speed) 
Part Three  (20 min. at normal speed) 
  Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream   by Joan Didion
Part One  
 (24 min. at normal speed)
Part Two   
(22 min. at normal speed)
  Sometimes They Come Back by Stephen King    [Contains adult content, adult language ]
Part 1 (23-28 minutes)   Part 2 (21-26 minutes)   Part 3  (23-28 minutes)
  Stationary Bike  by Stephen King
Part 1  (18 to 23 min.)    Part 2  (12 to 15 min.)    Part 3  (12 to 15 min.)    
Part 4
 (13 to 16 min.)    Part 5  (11 to 14 min.)    Part 6  (23 to 29 min.)
  Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
Part 1  (23 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part 2
 (19 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  Strider by Beverly Cleary
(Total listening time = 2 hours at normal speed)
  Striding Folly  by Dorothy L. Sayers
(31 to 27 minutes long, depending on chosen listening speed))
  Such a Lucky, Pretty Girl  by Persia Walker
Part 1 (19 to 23 min.)    Part 2  (26 to 32 min.)
  Tales of El-ahrairah by Richard Adams
5 stories about the legendary El-ahrairah, and his trusty companion, Rabscuttle
  Thank You for Having Me  by Lorrie Moore
(Length = 29 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French by Stephen King
Part 1 (20 to 24 min.)    Part 2  (23 to 28 min.)
  The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers  
by Dorothy Sayers

Part One  ( 20 to 25 minutes)     Part Two  (21 to 26 minutes)
  The Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick
Part One   (28 to 36 minutes)     Part Two  (28 to 36 minutes)
 

The Adventure of the Cheap Flat  (31 to 37 min.)  by Agatha Christie
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
  (30 to 36 min.)  by Agatha Christie

  The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger by Michael Moorcock
Part 1   (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Part 2
  (22 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part 3    (23 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb by Agatha Christie
Part 1  (18 to 22 min.)    Part 2  (15 to 18 min.)
  The Adventure of the Extraordinary Rendition   - by Cory Doctorow
Part One (27 to 34 min.)        Part Two (23 to 29 min.)
  The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
Part 1 (16-19 min)   Part 2 (16-19 min)   Part 3  (16-19 min)
Part 4
 (16-19 min)
  Part 5 (16-19 min)   Part 6  (11- 13 min)
  The Adventure of the 'Western Star' by Agatha Christie
Part 1  (21 to 26 min.)    Part 2  (25 to 31 min.)
  The Answer is No  by Fredrik Backman
Chapter 1-3      (19 min. at normal speed) 
Chapter 4-5
     (25 min. at normal speed) 
Chapter 6-8      (19 min. at normal speed)
Chapter 9-10    (24 min. at normal speed)
Chapter 11-13
 (21 min. at normal speed)
  The Athens Solution  Brad Thor     
Part One (17 to 20 min.)      Part Two (18 to 22 min.)      
  The Ballad of Paul Nonetheless by Sherman Alexie
Part One (25 to 33 min.)      Part Two (25 to 32 min.)
  The Belated Russian Passport by Mark Twain
Part 1 - 2 (16 to 19 min.)      Part 3 - 4 (24 to 29 min.)
  The Best Girlfriend You Never Had by Pam Houston
(Listening time = 45 to 56 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  The Birds  by Daphne Du Maurier
Part 1   (29 min. at normal speed)
Part 2   (30 min. at normal speed
)
Part 3   (30 min. at normal speed)
  The Book of Job and The Song of Job
The Book of Job- Part 1   (22 min. at normal speed) 
The Book of Job - Part 2  (29 min. at normal speed)
The Book of Job - Part 3  (22 min. at normal speed)

The Song of Job  (6 min. at normal speed)  
  The Boarding House by James Joyce
(Listening time = 17 to 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
Part One (23 to 29 min.)        Part Two (25 to 32 min.)
  The Book Signing and Going Home by Peter Hamill
Going Home (5 min. at normal speed) 
The Book Signing -
Part 1 (21 min. at normal speed) 
The Book Signing - Part 2 (16 min. at normal speed) 
  The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God - and other stories — by Etgar Keret
One  (9 to 11 min.)   Two  (11 to 13 min.)   Three  (6 to 7 min.)  
Four
  (10 to 12 min.)    Five  (7 to 8 min.)   Six  (5 to 7 min.)    Seven (12 to 14 min.)

  The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo
Part One  (31 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (32 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Three
 (30 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Part One  (24 to 30 minutes)     Part Two  (28 to 34 minutes)      Part Three   (28 to 34 minutes)
  The Case of the Bloodless Sock by Anne Perry
Part One   (25 to 30 min.)    Part Two   (24 to 29 min.)
 

The Case of the Caretaker   by Agatha Christie
(31 min. at normal speed)
Miss Marple Tells a Story
(23 min. at normal speed)

  The Case of the City Clerk    by Agatha Christie
  (31 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
The Case of the Rich Woman     by Agatha Christie
  (31 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)

  The Case of the Discontented Soldier by Agatha Christie
Part 1  (22 to 27 min.)    Part 2  (15 to 19 min.)
  The Cat from Hell by Stephen King
(Total listening time = 38 minutes at normal speed)
  The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennet
Part One (26 to 31 min.)   Part Two (25 to 30 min.)   Part Three (27 to 32 min.)   Part Four (23 to 28 min.)
  The Colonel's Lady by W. Somerset Maugham
Part One  (27 to 34 minutes)     Part Two  (28 to 35 minutes)
  The Coming of Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie
Part One   (19 to 23 min.)    Part Two   (21 to 25 min.)
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button  by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Part 1   (29 min. at normal speed)
Part 2   (31 min. at normal speed)
  The Dancing Bear   by Michael Morpurgo
Part One   (27 min. at normal speed)
Part Two   (28 min. at normal speed)
  The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
Part 1 (Adam)  (24 to 30 min.)      Part 2 (Eve)  (36 to 45 min.)  
  The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim  by Agatha Christie
(Length = 32 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  The Disintegration Machine by Arthur Conan Doyle
Part 1  (21 to 25 min.)    Part 2  (19 to 23 min.)
  The Dream  by Agatha Christie
 Part One   (25 to 30 min.)    Part Two   (24 to 29 min.)
Four and Twenty Blackbirds   by Agatha Christie (31 to 37 min.)
  The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Part One (22 - 28 minutes)    Part Two (20 - 24 minutes)
  The Emperor by Frederick Forsyth
   Part 1  (20 to 25 min)    Part 2  (20 to 25 min)  
   Part 3  (20 to 25 min)    Part 4  (18 to 23 min)
  The Endgame by Jeffrey Archer
Part 1
 (23 to 29 min.)    Part 2  (24 to 30 min.)     Part 3  (26 to 32 min.)    Part 4  (27 to 33 min.)
  The End of Love   by Nina LaCour
Part One  (33 min. at normal speed) 
Part Two  (37 min. at normal speed) 
  The End of The Whole Mess by Stephen King
Part One  
(20 minutes)     Part Two  (20 minutes)     Part Three  (22 minutes)
  Three Stories by John Cheever
  -The Enormous Radio  
(25 to 29 minutes)
  -The Swimmer
 
(27 to 33 minutes)
  -Goodbye, My Brother  Part One   (listening time = 27 to 33 min)  
                                                             Part Two
   (listening time = 25 to 30 mi)
  The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever
Part 1
 (19 to 24 min.)    Part 2  (19 to 24 min.)
  The Fly by Beorge Langelann
Part One and Two (16 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Three  (16 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Four  (20 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Part Five  (26 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  The German Refugee by Bernard Malamud
(Listening time = 33 to 42 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  The Ghost of a Model T  by Clifford D. Simak
(Length = 31 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  The Girl Detective by Kelly Link
(Listening time = 46 min. at normal speed)
  The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Dahiell Hammett
Part 1 (29 min. at normal speed) 
Part 2
(26 min. at normal speed) 
Part 3 (25 min. at normal speed)
Part 4 (28 min. at normal speed)
  The Golden Gopher by Susan Straight
Part One (21 to 25 min.)        Part Two (20 to 24 min.)        Part Three (23 to 27 min.)
  The Good Deed by Pearl S. Buck
Part One  
(27 to 33 minutes)     Part Two  (25 to 31 minutes)
  The Kidnapped Prime Minister by Agatha Christie
Part 1  (21 to 25 min.)    Part 2  (20 to 24 min.)
  -Three Southern Stories by Bailey White
The Green Bus    (25 min. at normal speed)
The Telephone Man    (20 min. at normal speed)
What Would They Say in Birmingham    (25 min. at normal speed)
  The Horror of the Many Faces  by Tim Lebbon
Part 1  (16 to 20 min.)    Part 2  (15 to 19 min.)      Part 3  (20 to 24 min.)  
  THE HUMAN MYSTERY by Tanith Lee
Part 1 (19 to 23 min.)  Part 2  (9 to 10 min.) Part 3  (11 to 14 min.)  Part 4  (12 to 14 min.)   Part 5  (24 to 28 min.)
  The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street  by Mavis Gallant
Part One (21 to 27 min.)        Part Two (23 to 29 min.)           Part Three (25 to 32 min.)
  The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan by Agatha Christie
Part 1  (17 to 21 min.)    Part 2  (18 to 22 min.)
  The Judge's House by Bram Stoker
Part 1  (24 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part 2
 (24 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  The King of the Elves    by Philip K. Dick
Part One   (17 min. at normal speed)
Part Two   (22 min. at normal speed)
  The Kite by W. Somerset Maugham
Part 1  (23 to 28 min)    Part 2  (24 to 30 min) 
  The Latecomer by Mavis Gallant
Part One  (30 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two   (30 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  The Ledge by Stephen King
(Listening time = 43 min. at normal speed)
  The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham
Part One (21 to 15 min.)  Part Two (21 to 25 min.)  Part Three (21 to 25 min.)  Part Four (21 to 26 min.)
  The Limited / Breaking and Entering by Sherman Alexie
(Listening time = 29 to 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)  
  The Little People by Steven Millhauser
Part 1   (31 min. at normal speed)
Part 2   (33 min. at normal speed)
  The Listerdale Mystery  by Agatha Christie
Part One (18 to 21 min.)  Part Two (21 to 25 min.) 
  The Long Rain by Ray Bradbury
 (Listening time = 36 to 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)  
  Three Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Lost Decade
(~9 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Three Hours Between Planes
(~13 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
The Bridal Party
Part One   (~21 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Part Two 
(~20 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  The Lottery   by Shirley Jackson
(Length = 25 to 30 min.depending on chosen listening speed)
  The Machine Stops  by E. M. Forster
Part One  (32 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available
Part Two  
(29 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Three
 (26 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells
(Listening time = 27 to 33 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  The Man from Budapest    by Walter Tevis
Part One   (25 min. at normal speed)
Part Two   (22 min. at normal speed)
  The Man in the Black Suit by Stephen King
Part 1  (22 to 28 min)      Part 2  (22 to 27 min)      Part 3  (22 to 27 min)
  The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe
(Listening time = 15 to 18 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  The Method by Janet Fitch      
Part One (21 to 25 min.)      Part Two (20 to 24 min.)      Part Three (16 to 20 min.)
  The Moons of Jupiter by Aice Munro
(Listening time = 29 min. at normal speed)
  The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
Part One  (10 to 13 minutes)     Part Two  (6 to 8 minutes)      Part Three   (8 to 11 minutes)
 

The Mystery of the Spanish Chest  by Agatha Christie
Part One   (16 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Part Two   (22 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Three  (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Four (17 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Part Five  (12 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)

  The Night Johnny Ace Died   by James Lee Burke
Part One  (25 min. at normal speed) 
Part Two  (22 min. at normal speed) 
  The Other Woman  by Sherwood Anderson
(Total listening time = 23 minutes at normal speed)
  The Quiet Girl  by Claire Keegan
Part 1  1 (27 min. at normal speed)
Part 2  (38 min. at normal speed)
Part 3   (21 min. at normal speed)
  The Raft  by Stephen King
Part One   (32 min. at normal speed)
Part Two   (30 min. at normal speed)
  The Reach by Stephen King
Part One  (18 to 23 minutes)     Part Two  (27 to 33 minutes) 
  The Road Virus Heads North by Stephen King
Part 1 (26 min. at normal speed) 
Part 2
(25 min. at normal speed) 
Part 3 (23 min. at normal speed)
 

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
by James Thurber
   (13 min. at normal speed)
Plus:
The Dog That Bit People   
   (13 min. at normal speed)

The Night the Ghost Got In
   (12 min. at normal speed)

  Four Stories. by Bailey White
The Second Hand or The Roach  (20 min. at normal speed ) 
A Good-For-Nothing and His Dog
 (17 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
A Kind of Love 
 (22 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
The Wedding Horse   (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  The Sealed Room by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(Listening time = 38 min. at normal speed)
  The Scarlet Plague   by Jack London (1912)
Part One  (24 min. at normal speed) 
Part Two  (18 min. at normal speed) 
Part Three  
(20 min. at normal speed) 
Part Four  
(20 min. at normal speed) 
Part Five  (20 min. at normal speed)
Part Six    (15 min. at normal speed)
  The Singular Habits of Wasps by Geoffrey A. Landis
Part 1    (21 to 25 min)   Part 2    (20 to 24 min)  Part 3    (17 to 21 min)
  The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates  by Stephen King
(Length = 20 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  The Night Flier by Stephen King
Part One (23-29 minutes)    Part Two (25-31 minutes)
  The Only Living Girl on Earth  by Charles Yu
Part 1   (29 min. at normal speed)
Part 2   (31 min. at normal speed)
  The Open Window by Saki
(Listening time = 8 to 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  The Secret Life of Walter Mitty  by James Thurber
(Length = 14 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  The Scarlet Ibis  by James Hurst
(Total listening time = 32 minutes at normal speed)
  The Shadow on The Glass by Agatha Christie
Part 1 (24-29 minutes)   Part 2 (23-28 minutes)
  Three Short Short Stories by D.H. Lawrence
1 - The Shades of Spring   (15 to 18 minutes)
2 - Rawdon's Roof   (14 to 18 minutes)
3 - Goose Fair   (14 to 18 minutes)
  The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber  by Ernest Hemingway
Part One  (32 to 40 minutes)     Part Two  (33 to 41 minutes)
  The Singular Habits of Wasps by Geoffrey A. Landis
Part 1 (21 to 25 min.)     Part 2  (20 to 24 min.)       Part 3  (17 to 21 min.)
  The Sisters by James Joyce
(Listening time = 23 to 28 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
Part 1   (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Part 2
  (17 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part 3    (16 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  The Spectator [Le spectateur]  by Irène Némirovsky
Part One  (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (20 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  The Star by H.G. Wells
(Listening time = 30 to 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

  The Story of Caroline. by Jill D. Block
Part One  (19 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two   (21 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Part 1   (20 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Part 2
  (21 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part 3    (19 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  Three Stories by Bailey White   
The Telephone Man (20 to 25 minutes)  
What Would They Say in Birmingham
(25 to 32 minutes)
The Green Bus (25 to 31 minutes)
  The Third and Final Continent by Jhumpa Lahiri
Part One  (25 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two   (24 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman
Part 1  (20 to 25 min)    Part 2  (18 to 23 min)  
  Part 3  (21 to 26 min)    Part 4  (22 to 28 min) 
  The Tunnel Under The World   by Frederik Pohl
Part One (19 to 23 min.)  Part Two (21 to 25 min.)  Part Three (21 to 25 min.)  Part Four (16 to 19 min.)
  The Twits by Roald Dahl
Part 1  (15 to 19 min.)     Part 2  (16 to 20 min.)       Part 3  (18 to 23 min.)
  The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
(Total listening time = 29 minutes at normal speed)
  The Window of Time by Richard Matheson
  The Witness for the Prosecution  by Agatha Christie
Part 1   (29 min. at normal speed)
Part 2   (31 min. at normal speed)
  The World's End   by Agatha Christie
Part One  (23 min. at normal speed) 
Part Two  (25 min. at normal speed)
  This Morning I Met a Whale by Michael Morpurgo
Part One  (23 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (24 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Those Happy Shores    (Les rivages heureux)  by Irène Némirovsky
Part 1  (24 to 30 min.)    Part 2  (25 to 32 min.)
  Those Who Seek Forgiveness   by Laurell K. Hamilton
(Listening time = 28 min. at normal speed)
  Three-Ten to Yuma by Elmore Leonard
(Listening time = 33 to 39 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  To Build a Fire by Jack London
(Listening time = 43 min. at normal speed)
  Too Many Coincidences by Jeffrey Archer
Part One (30 to 36 min.)  Part Two (31 to 37 min.)
  Too Near Real
by Jonathan Safran Foer   (33 to 37 min. )
  Two Creepy Stories by Edgar Allen Poe
Part One  (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (22 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Two Gallants by James Joyce
(Listening time = 25 to 32 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  Two 'Just So Stories'   by Rudyard Kipling
The Cat That Walked by Himself  (29 min. at normal speed)
The Elephant's Child  (20 min. at normal speed)
  Uncle Otto's Truck by Stephen King  
Part One (21 to 25 min.)      Part Two (23 to 27 min.)  
  Unlighted Lamp    by Sherwood Anderson
Part One  (25 min. at normal speed)
Part Two  (23 min. at normal speed)
  Very Short Stories Featuring Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (24 to 30 min.)   
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery  (21 to 27 min.)    
The Case of the Missing Will  (20 to 25 min.)  
  War Dances  by Sherman Alexie     (* Advisory: contains adult language)
 Part One   (20 to 24 minutes)    Part Two   (20 to 24 minutes)    Part Three   (20 to 24 minutes)
  War of the Worlds — Radio Brodcast directed by Orson Welles
Part One  (18 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (22 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
Part One (24 - 30 minutes)    Part Two (27 - 34 minutes)
  When It Happens  by Margaret Atwood
(25 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
  When the World Screamed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Part One (28 to 33 min.)  Part Two (28 to 34 min.)   Part Three (28 to 34 min.)
  When the World Was Young by Jack London
(Listening time = 38 min. at normal speed)
  Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
Part One  ( 22 to 26 minutes)     Part Two  (23 to 28 minutes)
  Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People by Lorrie Moore
Part One  (23 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two  (24 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  Word Processor of the Gods  by Stephen King
(Listening time = 41 to 51 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
  Yaqui  by Zane Grey
Part One (21 to 25 min.)  Part Two (20 to 24 min.)   Part Three (21 to 25 min.)
  You Are Released by Joe Hill
   Part 1  (24 to 28 min.)       Part 2  (21 to 25 min.)       Part 3  (17 to 21 min.)
  You're Ugly, Too. by Lorrie Moore
Part One  (26 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part Two (25 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
  You Have Arrived at Your Destination  by Amor Towles
Part 1   (30 min. at normal speed)
Part 2   (25 min. at normal speed
)
Part 3   (23 min. at normal speed)
  You Know They Got a Hell of a Band by Stephen King
Part 1   (20 min. at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Part 2
   (2o min.at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
Part 3    (19 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)

Part 4   
(17 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available)
Part 5  
 (18 min.at normal speed - Various speeds available) 
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