We love audiobooks, but sometimes they are just so loooong ! When we went looking for shorter books, we found a bunch of great shorter audiobooks under 3 hours. Everything from classics, to murder mystery, self help and even a bit of great poetry. If you are looking for something longer, we do have our Road Trip list.
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The Four Agreements
Author: don Miguel Ruiz
Narrator: Peter Coyote
Listening Time: 2 hours, 31 minutes
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Book Summary:
Using Toltec teachings, the author tells readers how to get rid of limiting beliefs holding you back. This self help book uses the idea of agreements (with yourself, others and God) to form the basis for changing your belief system in order to get the life you want.
Close to the Bone: Widow’s Island Novella
Author: Kendra Elliot
Narrator: Christine Williams
Listening Time: 2 hours, 46 minutes
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Book Summary:
When bones of a young woman are found on an island, FBI Special Agent Cate Wilde will get justice for the dead. Unfortunately, she will have to confront small town secrets, and her past.
Evidence of the Affair
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrator:Julia Whelan, George Newbern, James Daniels, Dara Rosenberg
Listening Time: 1 hours, 19 minutes
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Book Summary:
This short story about an affair is told entirely through letters passed between the two wronged parties. A very innovative and interesting read about infidelity and the trauma it causes to people.
Photographing the Dead
Author: Dean Koontz
Narrator: Grace Experience
Listening Time: 1 hours, 17 minutes
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Book Summary:
A serial killer is hunting for victims in the Mohave desert. He is being chased by Nameless, a person programmed to specifically programmed to hunt killers.
Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
Narrator: John Sackville
Listening Time: 2 hours, 57 minutes
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Book Summary:
George Orwell’s classic short book uses pigs taking over the farm as an allegory about the dangers of power. The pigs get the farm animals to band together and kick out the farmer, and then the pigs become worse than the farmer was after gaining power.
The Old Man and the Sea
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Narrator: Donald Sutherland
Listening Time: 2 hours, 28 minutes
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Book Summary:
Ernest Hemingway’s final work is the story of perseverance, enduring hardships and the indomitable human spirit. All told through an old Cuban fisherman, fighting a monster marlin.
The sun and her flowers
Book Summary:
A collection of poetry by top new young artist, Rupi Kaur. She uses the lifespan of flowers to tell the story of life, talking about abundance and love.
A Long Walk to Water
Author: Linda Sue Park
Narrators: David Baker, Cynthia Bishop
Listening Time: 2 hours, 41 minutes
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Book Summary:
Nya and Slave are two children trying to survive in 1985 Sudan. They face unbelievable hardships and come face to face with death from armed rebels and deadly animals.
Alice in Wonderland
Book Summary:
Alice in Wonderland is Lewis Carroll’s story of Alice, a young girl, and the adventures she has after following a rabbit down a hole. And, of course talking teapots and more !
Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Brontë
Narrator: Juliet Stevenson
Listening Time: 2 hours, 41 minutes
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Book Summary:
Catherine and Heathcliff are desperately in love. Unfortunately, the class differences between them in Victorian England prove to be a great hurdle.
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Katy B. Rutland
My name is Katy, and storytelling is pretty much my jam. Snuggling up with a good book and escaping into a thrilling movie has been my addiction since I was a little kid. I studied English Lit in college which was literally heaven for a word nerd like me. Since graduating I've focused my passion and energy on writing my own novels and screenplays.