The best short stories or collection audiobooks, by award record: every Audie Short Stories or Collection winner

Looking for a short stories or collection audiobook that's actually worth a credit? This is the complete record of the Audie Award's Short Stories or Collection category — 26 winners from 2000 to 2026, the audiobook industry's own pick for the best short stories or collection production of each year. The most recent winner is Food for Thought by Alton Brown, narrated by Alton Brown.

Last verified 2026-06-10 · Source: Wikipedia + APA

Year	Narrator	Audiobook	Author
2026	Alton Brown	Food for Thought	Alton Brown
2025	Will Patton, Stephen King	You Like It Darker: Stories	Stephen King
2024	Sophia Bush	Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver	Mary Oliver
2023	Candice Moll, Shayna Small, Samara Naeymi, Jennifer Jill Araya, Carly Robins, Fajer Al-Kaisi	Getaway	Sally Hepworth, Zakiya Dalila Harris, Catherine Steadman, Luanne Rice, Jess Lourey, Rumaan Alam
2022	Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Dion Graham, Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J. Beckles, Bahni Turpin	Blackout	Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon
2021	Richard Armitage	The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories	Anton Chekhov
2020	Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Neil Gaiman, Ashleigh Cummings, Joe Hill, Laysla De Oliveira, Nate Corddry, Connor Jessup, Stephen Lang, George Guidall	Full Throttle	Joe Hill
2019	Adenrele Ojo	Heads of the Colored People	Nafissa Thompson-Spires
2018	Lauren Fortgang	The Language of Thorns	Leigh Bardugo
2017	Austin Bunn, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby, Talph Lister, Amy McFadden, Mikael Naramore, Nick Podehl	The Brink	Austin Bunn
2015	Jane Carr	The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher	Hilary Mantel
2014	Graeme Malcolm	Sherlock Holmes in America	Jon L. Lellenberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Daniel Stashower
2013	Khristine Hvam, James Langton, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren, Dion Graham	Astray	Emma Donoghue
2012	Boyd Gaines, Rita Wolf, Condola Rashad, BD Wong	Selected Shorts: New American Stories	Aleksandar Hemon, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sherman Alexie
2011	Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Peter Francis James, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton	Stories: All-New Tales	Neil Gaiman
2010	full cast	Black Magazine Audio Magazine (Vol. 1)	Hugh B. Cave, Paul Cain, Frederick Nebel, Reuben J. Shay, Dashiell Hammett, William Cole
2009	Rip Torn, Michael Vonnegut	Armageddon in Retrospect	Kurt Vonnegut
2008	David Ledoux	20th Century Ghosts	Joe Hill
2007	Bill Gates, Martha Graham, full cast	This I Believe	Jay Allison, Dan Gediman
2006	Kymberly Dakin	Runaway	Alice Munro
2005	David Sedaris	Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim	David Sedaris
2004	Garrison Keillor	Home on the Prairie: Stories from Lake Wobegon	Garrison Keillor
2003	Carole Boyd, Liza Ross, Teresa Gallagher	Classic Women's Short Stories	Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf
2002	Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, Grover Gardner, Barrett Whitener, Delores King Williams	Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War	Ulysses S. Grant et al.
2001	full cast	Ten by Maugham	W. Somerset Maugham
2000	Patrick Macnee, Juliet Mills, Judy Geeson, Christopher Cazenove, Stephanie Beacham, Reed Diamond, William Windom	Malice Domestic: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories	Anne Perry et al.

Most-awarded short stories or collection narrators

Shayna Small (2 wins) · Dion Graham (2 wins).

Most-awarded short stories or collection authors

Joe Hill (2 wins).

Every Audie Short Stories or Collection finalist (the full nominee record)

The Audie Short Stories or Collection category names finalists alongside each winner. These 105 audiobooks were nominated but didn't win — also sourced; each title's full record is in the A–Z index.

Year	Finalist	Author	Narrator(s)
2026	Alibis	Freida McFadden, Sally Hepworth, David Lagercrantz, Chris Bohjalian, Chad Zunker, Wanda M. Morris	Lauryn Allman, Anthea Greco, Graham Halstead, Eric Altheide, Soneela Nankani, Pete Simonelli, Amara Jasper, Susannah Jones
2026	Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties	Suzanne Roberts	Julia Whelan
2026	Notes to John	Joan Didion	Julianne Moore
2026	The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand	Christopher Golden, Brian Keene (eds.)	Sean Patrick Hopkins, Adenrele Ojo
2026	The Illustrated Man	Ray Bradbury	Prentice Onayemi, Ari Fliakos, Marin Ireland
2025	Glory Days	Simon Rich	John Tóibín
2025	Letters from Klara	Tove Jansson	Indira Varma
2025	The History of Sound	Ben Shattuck	Ben Shattuck, Zachary Chastain, full cast
2025	What If We Get It Right?	Ayana Elizabeth Johnson	Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
2024	A Guest at the Feast	Colm Tóibín	Colm Tóibín
2024	Obsession Collection	Nita Prose, B.A. Paris, Minka Kent, Julie Clark, Chris Bohjalian, Alyssa Cole	Susan Dalian, Kimberly Woods, full cast
2024	The Adventures of Finn MacCool & Other Irish Folk Tales	Liam Gerrard (ed.)	Liam Gerrard
2024	The Best American Short Stories 2023	Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor	Laura Copland, Jeena Yi, full cast
2023	Generation Wonder	Barry Lyga and others	Emily Lawrence, Jaime Lincoln Smith, Sarah Naughton, Mark Sanderlin, Ron Butler, James Anderson Foster, Jennifer Aquino, Tim Campbell, Jeanette Illidge, Ariana Delawari, Frankie Corzo, Kenny Ramos, Eunice Wong
2023	Giving the Devil His Due: A Charity Anthology	Rebecca Brewer (ed.)	Alyssa Bresnahan, Brian Nishii, Christina Moore, Cynthia Farrell, Edoardo Ballerini, Erin Moon, Karen Chilton, Kate Forbes, Nancy Wu, Robin Miles, Samuel Roukin, Stephanie Cozart
2023	Marriage: From the Feminine Perspective	Christine Mascott (ed.)	Christine Mascott
2023	Rebent Sinner	Ivan Coyote	Ivan Coyote
2022	Binge	Douglas Coupland	Douglas Coupland et al.
2022	How It Ends	Rachel Howzell Hall	Joniece Abbott-Pratt
2022	Lyrics for Rock Stars	Heather Mateus Sappenfield	Michael Crouch
2022	The Best American Short Stories 2021	Jesmyn Ward, Heidi Pitlor (eds.)	Lisa Flanagan et al.
2021	Burnt Tongues	Neil Krolicki, Chris Lewis Carter, Gayle Towell, Tony Liebhard, Michael De Vito, Jr., Tyler Jones, Phil Jourdan, Richard Lemmer, Amanda Gowin, Matt Egan, Fred Venturini, Brandon Tietz, Adam Skorupskas, Bryan Howie, Brien Piechos, Jason M. Fylon, Terence James Eeles, Keith Bule, Gus Moreno, Daniel W. Broallt	Christopher David, Jordan Killam, Pete Cross, Cady Zuckerman, Nick Mondelli, David Bendena, Pat Grimes, Mark Owen, Kat Rose-Martin, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Katherine Littrell, James Patrick Cronin, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Cary Hite, Qarie Marshall, Jack Meloche, Thom Rivera, Steve West, Steve Wojtas, Tanya Eby, Patrick Lawlor
2021	Inquire Within	IN-Q	IN-Q
2021	Inside Jobs: Tales from a Time of Quarantine	Ben H. Winters	Scott Aiello, Kevin T. Collins, Ellen Archer
2021	Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning	Cathy Park Hong	Cathy Park Hong
2020	Evidence of the Affair	Taylor Jenkins Reid	Julia Whelan, George Newbern, James Daniels, Dara Rosenberg
2020	Forward	Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, N. K. Jemisin, Amor Towles, Paul Tremblay, Andy Weir	Evan Rachel Wood, Rosa Salazar, Jason Isaacs, David Harbour, Steven Strait, Janina Gavankar
2020	I'm Telling the Truth but I'm Lying	Bassey Ikpi	Bassey Ikpi
2020	Kabu Kabu	Nnedi Okorafor, Whoopi Goldberg	Yetide Badaki
2019	Eveningland	Michael Knight	Scott Sowers
2019	The Flame	Leonard Cohen	Margaret Atwood, Seth Rogen, Michael Shannon, Will Patton, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Maggie Hoffman, Ross Marquand, Neela Vaswani
2019	The Grass Harp	Truman Capote	Cody Roberts
2019	You Think It, I'll Say It	Curtis Sittenfeld	Emily Rankin, Mark Deakins
2018	Difficult Women	Roxane Gay	Robin Miles
2018	Good Behavior	Blake Crouch	Blake Crouch, Julia Whelan
2018	Tales of Ordinary Madness	Charles Bukowski	Will Patton
2018	You Don't Have to Say You Love Me	Sherman Alexie	Sherman Alexie
2017	Certain Dark Things	M. J. Pack	Jacob York
2017	Coffee at Luke's	Jennifer Crusie	Colby Elliott
2017	East, West	Salman Rushdie	Sunil Malhotra, Steven Crossley
2017	Killer Women	Louise Millar, Alex Marwood, Tammy Cohen	Clare Corbett, Adjoa Andoh, Rachel Atkins, Carl Prekopp
2017	The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	Arthur C. Clarke	Ray Porter, Jonathan Davis, Ralph Lister
2015	Dangerous Women	George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois	Claudia Black, Scott Brick, Karen Dotrice, Jonathan Frakes, Iain Glen, Janis Ian, Stana Katic, Inna Korobkina, Jenna Lamia, Lee Meriwether, Emily Rankin, Maggi-Meg Reed, Fred Sanders, Allan Scott-Douglas, Sophie Turner, Harriet Walter, Jake Weber
2015	Faceoff	Linwood Barclay, Steve Berry, Lee Child, Lincoln Child, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Linda Fairstein, Joseph Finder, Lisa Gardner, Heather Graham, Peter James, Raymond Khoury, Dennis Lehane, John Lescroart, Steve Martini, T. Jefferson Parker, Douglas Preston, Ian Rankin, James Rollins, M. J. Rose, John Sandford, R. L. Stine, F. Paul Wilson	Dylan Baker, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jeremy Bobb, Daniel Gerroll, January LaVoy, David Baldacci
2015	Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths	Bernard Evslin	Todd Haberkorn
2015	The Legend of Drizzt	R. A. Salvatore	Dan Harmon, Danny Pudi, Al Yankovic, Felicia Day, Greg Grunberg, Melissa Rauch, Michael Chiklis, Sean Astin, Tom Felton, David Duchovny, Ice-T, Wil Wheaton
2015	The Wily O'Reilly	Patrick Taylor	John Keating
2014	Nine Inches	Tom Perrotta	William Dufris, Andi Arndt, Tom Perrotta, Rupert Degas
2014	Nothing Gold Can Stay	Ron Rash	Alexander Cendese, Robert Petkoff, Prentice Onayemi, Christian Baskous, Phoebe Strole
2014	The Ballad of the Sad Café	Carson McCullers	David Ledoux, Joe Barrett, Thérèse Plummer, Kevin Pariseau, Suzanne Toren, Edoardo Ballerini, Barbara Rosenblat
2014	The Cage Keeper and Other Stories	Andre Dubus III	Andre Dubus III
2014	We Live in Water	Jess Walter	Edoardo Ballerini, Jess Walter
2013	I Am an Executioner	Rajesh Parameswaran	Neil Shah, Lina Patel
2013	Slouching Towards Bethlehem	Joan Didion	Diane Keaton
2013	Welcome to Bordertown	Holly Black, Ellen Kushner	Holly Black, Ellen Kushner, Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews
2013	When It Happens to You	Molly Ringwald	Molly Ringwald
2012	Black Mask Stories (Vol. 1)	Keith Alan Deutsch, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, George Harmon Coxe, Frederick Nebel, Lester Dent	Full cast
2012	Bullfighting	Roddy Doyle	Lorcan Cranitch
2012	The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty	Eudora Welty	Barbara Rosenblat, Gabra Zackman, Marc Vietor, Kevin Pariseau, L. J. Ganser, Katherine Kellgren, Allyson Johnson, Victor Bevine, Elisabeth Rodgers, Jonathan Davis, Oliver Wyman, Jeremy Gage, Eileen Stevens, Joe Barrett, Jessica Almasy, Khristine Hvam, Suzanne Toren, Gayle Hendriz, Mark Boyett
2012	The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Kirsten Potter
2012	You Known When the Men Are Gone	Siobhan Fallon	Cassandra Campbell
2011	A Matter of Matter	L. Ron Hubbard	Corey Burton, R. F. Daley, Jim Meskimen, Tait Ruppert, Josh Thompson
2011	A Touch of Dead	Charlaine Harris	Johanna Parker
2011	And Thereby Hangs a Tale	Jeffrey Archer	Gerard Doyle
2011	Ford County	John Grisham	John Grisham
2011	How Did You Get This Number	Sloane Crosley	Sloane Crosley
2011	Long After Midnight	Ray Bradbury	Michael Prichard
2010	Just After Sunset	Stephen King	Stephen King, Jill Eikenberry, Holter Graham, George Guidall, Ron McLarty, Denis O'Hare, full cast
2010	Love Letters of Great Men (vol. 2)	Ursula Doyle	Anton Lesser
2010	Nothing with Strings	Bailey White	Lorna River
2010	The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1	Arthur Conan Doyle	Charlton Griffin
2009	Fine Just the Way It Is	Annie Proulx	Will Patton
2009	The Bandana Republic	Louis Reyes Rivera, Bruce George	Full cast
2009	This I Believe II	Jay Allison, Dan Gediman	Full cast
2009	When You Are Engulfed in Flames	David Sedaris	David Sedaris
2008	Big Country	Louis L'Amour	Stefan Rudnicki
2008	Grace Under Fire	Andrew Carroll	Patrick Lawlor
2008	Growing Up Ethnic in America	Maria Mazziotti Gillan et al.	Full cast
2008	Selected Readings from The Portable Dorothy Parker	Marion Meade	Lorna Raver
2007	A Grown-Up's Halloween	Yuri Rasovsky	Yuri Rasovsky
2007	Fragile Things	Neil Gaiman	Neil Gaiman
2007	Paris Stories	Mavis Gallant	Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
2007	The Turning	Tim Winton	Humphrey Bower, Caroline Lee
2006	Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios	Yann Martel	Jeff Woodman, Johnny Stange, Randolph Jones, Barbara Caruso, David Ledoux
2006	Fairy Tales	Hans Christian Andersen (trans. Tina Nunnally)	Kate Reading, Richard Matthews
2006	The Girl Who Married a Lion	Alexander McCall Smith	Davina Porter, Lisette Lecat, Steven Crossley, Danai Gurira, Nyambi Nyambi
2006	The Noël Coward Collection	Noël Coward	Noël Coward, Simon Jones, Margaret Leighton
2005	Chain of Command	Seymour M. Hersh	Peter Friedman, Seymour Hersh
2005	Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations	Alexander McCall Smith	Simon Prebble, Lisette Lecat, Susan Lyons
2005	The Short Stories of W. S. Maugham, Vol. 3	W. Somerset Maugham	Charlton Griffin
2005	Twisted	Jeffery Deaver	Boyd Gaines, Michele Pawk, Frederick Weller
2004	Classic Chinese Short Stories (vol. 2)	Yuan Chen, Lien Pu, Hsieh Liang, Mao Tun, Feng Meng-lung	Charlton Griffin
2004	Drinking Coffee Elsewhere	ZZ Packer	Shirley Jordan
2004	Shepherds Abiding	Jan Karon	John McDonough
2004	The John Cheever Audio Collection	John Cheever	John Cheever, Blythe Danner, Peter Gallagher, Edward Herrmann, George Plimpton, Meryl Streep
2003	Classic Chinese Short Stories (vol. 1)	Feng Meng-lung, Lin Yu Tang, P'u Sung-ling, et al.	Charlton Griffin
2003	In the Ravine & Other Short Stories	Anton Chekhov	Kenneth Branagh
2003	My Man Jeeves	P. G. Wodehouse	Martin Jarvis
2003	The Copper Peacock and Other Stories	Ruth Rendell	Penelope Keith
2002	Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Robert Sean Leonard, Peter Gallagher, Blythe Danner, Eric Stoltz, Martha Plimpton, Dylan Baker, Parker Posey, Bill Irwin, Campbell Scott
2002	Texas Bound IV	Kay Cattarulla	Marcia Gay Harden, Larry Hagman, Judith Ivey
2001	High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2	Clint Willis	Eric Conger, George Guidall, Simon Prebble, Alan Sklar
2001	Me Talk Pretty One Day	David Sedaris	David Sedaris
2000	Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories	Philip Roth	Theodore Bikel, Harlan Ellison, Elliott Gould, John Rubinstein, Jerry Zaks
2000	Zoe Caldwell reads Oscar Wilde Fairy Tales	Oscar Wilde	Christopher Plummer, Zoe Caldwell

See also: Audiobook of the Year · Best Narrator winners · Grammy audiobook winners.