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Short Stories Book Summaries

I, Robot Summary

by Isaac Asimov 1950 224 pages

Science Fiction

Like a House on Fire Summary

Like a House on Fire

by Cate Kennedy 2012 288 pages

The Cuck Summary

by Aron Beauregard 2022 76 pages

Horror Thriller

The Most Dangerous Game Summary

The Most Dangerous Game

by Richard Connell 1924 48 pages

Norse Mythology Summary

Norse Mythology

by Neil Gaiman 2017 301 pages

The Answer Is No Summary

The Answer Is No

by Fredrik Backman 2024 68 pages

The Martian Chronicles Summary

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury 1950 182 pages

Science Fiction

Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Soul

by Jack Canfield 1993 428 pages

Rejection Summary

by Tony Tulathimutte 2024 272 pages

Literary Fiction

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream Summary

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

by Harlan Ellison 1967 134 pages

Science Fiction

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky Summary

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 320 pages

Creatures of a Day Summary

Creatures of a Day

And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom 2015 215 pages

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad Summary

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

by Damilare Kuku 2024 254 pages

The Murders in the Rue Morgue Summary

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

by Edgar Allan Poe 1841 38 pages

Callings Summary

The Purpose and Passion of Work

by Dave Isay 2016 266 pages

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory Summary

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

by Raphael Bob-Waksberg 2019 256 pages

Marcovaldo Summary

by Italo Calvino 1963 128 pages

Italian Literature

Falling in Love Again Summary

Falling in Love Again

by Ruskin Bond 2013 195 pages

The Gift Summary

by Freida McFadden 2022 47 pages

The Canterbury Tales Summary

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 504 pages

Forty Tales from the Afterlives

by David Eagleman 2009 110 pages

The Refugees Summary

by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 209 pages

Historical Fiction

Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul

101 Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Women

by Jack Canfield 1996 351 pages

The Yellow Wall-Paper Summary

The Yellow Wall-Paper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 54 pages

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories Summary

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka 1915 352 pages

I Am Legend and Other Stories Summary

I Am Legend and Other Stories

by Richard Matheson 1954 317 pages

Science Fiction

Mr Salary Summary

by Sally Rooney 2016 33 pages

Well-Read Black Girl Summary

Well-Read Black Girl

Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

by Glory Edim 2018 201 pages

Love Medicine Summary

by Louise Erdrich 1984 367 pages

Historical Fiction

Native American

Life Ceremony Summary

by Sayaka Murata 2019 256 pages

Living Beyond Borders Summary

Living Beyond Borders

Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America

by Margarita Longoria 2021 224 pages

Stag Dance Summary

by Torrey Peters 2025 288 pages

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II Summary

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II

by Jack Canfield 1998 351 pages

Exhalation Summary

by Ted Chiang 2019 368 pages

Science Fiction

The Good Immigrant Summary

The Good Immigrant

26 Writers Reflect on America

by Nikesh Shukla 2019 336 pages

Me Talk Pretty One Day Summary

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris 2000 272 pages

The Emperor's Soul Summary

The Emperor's Soul

by Brandon Sanderson 2012 192 pages

Nostalgia Summary

by Mircea Cărtărescu 1989 361 pages

Romanian Literature

Palm Sunday Summary

An Autobiographical Collage

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 pages

The Great God Pan Summary

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen 1890 82 pages

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories Summary

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

by Holly Black 2020 200 pages

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Summary

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle 1914 709 pages

Benito Cereno Summary

by Herman Melville 1855 160 pages

The Arabian Nights Summary

The Arabian Nights

Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1

by Anonymous 982 pages

Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul

Real Stories by Real Girls About Real Stuff

by Jack Canfield 2005 350 pages

Dubliners Summary

by James Joyce 1914 352 pages

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror Summary

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 224 pages

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Summary

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

by Sylvia Plath 1977 336 pages

Bartleby the Scrivener Summary

Bartleby the Scrivener

by Herman Melville 1853 64 pages

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories Summary

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories

by Agatha Christie 1950 288 pages

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