Audiobooks by Edward P. Jones

The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners

"The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize-winning stories by a diverse and exciting array of writers, including Wendell Berry, Alice Hoffman, Dave Eggers, Ling Ma, Lori Ostlund, and Anthony Marra. Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Edward P. Jones has brought his own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Jones, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. THE WINNING STORIES "The Stackpole Legend," Wendell Berry "The Arrow," Gina Chung "That Girl," Addie Citchens "The Pleasure of a Working Life," Michael Deagler "Blackbirds," Lindsey Drager "Hearing Aids," Clyde Edgerton "Sanrevelle," Dave Eggers "Stump of the World," Madeline ffitch "Shotgun Calypso," Indya Finch "City Girl," Alice Hoffman "Sickled," Jane Kalu "The Spit of Him," Thomas Korsgaard, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken "Winner," Ling Ma "Countdown," Anthony Marra "Just Another Family," Lori Ostlund "Mornings at the Ministry," Ehsaneh Sadr "Rosaura at Dawn," Daniel Saldaña París, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney "Three Niles," Zak Salih "Strange Fruit," Yah Yah Scholfield "Miracle in Lagos Traffic," Chika Unigwe"

Edward P. Jones (Author), Abigail Reno, Angel Pean, Ari Fliakos, Chandler Gregoire, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Heni Zoutomou, JD Jackson, Kaleo Griffith, Michelle H. Lee, Nkeki Obi-Melekwe, Philip Hernandez, Rebecca Lowman (Narrator)

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[German] - Die bekannte Welt

"Das Leben des Sklaven Moses ist hart. Das ändert sich auch nicht, als sein Herr Henry Townsend, ein ehemaliger Sklave, der jedoch freigekauft wurde, stirbt. Schwere Misshandlungen und Mangelernährung sind noch immer an der Tagesordnung, und weiter arbeitet Moses 14 Stunden am Tag. Wenn er endlich zur Ruhe kommen kann, isst er die Erde des Ackers, um dessen Stärken und Schwächen zu schmecken. Dann bricht auf der Farm auf einmal Chaos aus – und alles ändert sich.Edward Jones schuf mit seinem Romandebüt eine mitreißende Erzählung, die die menschenunwürdigen Lebensbedingungen der Sklaven im Amerika des 19. Jahrhunderts thematisiert. -"

Edward P. Jones (Author), Felix Von Manteuffel (Narrator)

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Are We There Yet?

"A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City. This anthology of tales about people in transit features Stuart Dybek's 'Pet Milk', read by Keith Szarabajka; Martha Gellhorn's 'Miami-New York', read by Joanna Gleason; Edward P. Jones' 'An Orange Line Train to Ballston', read by Sonia Manzano; Annie Proulx's 'The Trickle-Down Effect', read by James Naughton; Dorothy Thomas' 'The Getaway', read by Mia Dillon; James Thurber's 'A Ride with Olympy', read by David Rakoff; and Eudora Welty's 'No Place for You, My Love', read by Andrea Marcovicci."

Annie Proulx, Dorothy Thomas, Edward P. Jones, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, Martha Gellhorn, Stuart Dybek (Author), Andrea Marcovicci, David Rakoff, James Naughton, Joanna Gleason, Keith Szarabajka, Mia Dillon, Sonia Manzano (Narrator)

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Thalia Book Club: All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones

"Edward P. Jones sits down with Wyatt Mason to discuss his collection, All Aunt Hagar's Children. Carmen De Lavallade reads an excerpt from the book."

Edward P. Jones (Author), Carmen De Lavallade, Wyatt Mason (Narrator)

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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

"In fourteen sublime stories, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever. Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens. All Aunt Hagar's Children turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city, people who in Jones's masterful hands, emerge as fully human and morally complex, whether they are country folk used to getting up with the chickens or people with centuries of education behind them. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come."

Edward P. Jones (Author), Peter Francis James (Narrator)

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The Known World

"In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order and chaos ensues. In a daring and ambitious novel, Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all of its moral complexities. Performed by Kevin Free"

Edward P. Jones (Author), Kevin R. Free (Narrator)

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