Short Stories

Life's most meaningful moments often come in small packages, captured in brief but powerful glimpses that stay with us long after the last page. These concentrated doses of wisdom, humor, and human experience - whether personal essays, bite-sized memoirs, or intimate character studies - offer readers the perfect way to experience a complete story in a single sitting.

Short Stories Book Summaries

Franny and Zooey Summary

Franny and Zooey

by J.D. Salinger 1957 201 pages

Inciting Joy Summary

by Ross Gay 2022 256 pages

So Sad Today Summary

Personal Essays

by Melissa Broder 2016 206 pages

You Like It Darker Summary

You Like It Darker

by Stephen King 2024 502 pages

These Precious Days Summary

These Precious Days

by Ann Patchett 2021 320 pages

Spanish Short Stories for Beginners Summary

Spanish Short Stories for Beginners

20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Spanish & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!

by Lingo Mastery 2018 212 pages

Spanish Literature

Not Quite What I Was Planning Summary

Not Quite What I Was Planning

Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

by Larry Smith 2008 225 pages

Spanish Short Stories For Beginners Volume 2 Summary

Spanish Short Stories For Beginners Volume 2

8 More Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way!

by Olly Richards 2015 237 pages

Spanish Literature

I Am Legend and Other Stories Summary

I Am Legend and Other Stories

by Richard Matheson 1954 317 pages

Science Fiction

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

With Any Luck Summary

by Ashley Poston 2024 43 pages

Stag Dance Summary

by Torrey Peters 2025 288 pages

The Man Who Counted Summary

The Man Who Counted

A Collection of Mathematical Adventures

by Malba Tahan 1938 256 pages

Chicken Soup for the Sports Fan's Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Sports Fan's Soul

Stories of Insight, Inspiration and Laughter in the World of Sport

by Jack Canfield 2000 362 pages

Cut and Thirst Summary

by Margaret Atwood 2024 35 pages

Bartleby the Scrivener Summary

Bartleby the Scrivener

by Herman Melville 1853 64 pages

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

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 254 pages

In Bloom Summary

by Paul Tremblay 2023 35 pages

The Jungle Book Summary

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling 1894 277 pages

The Refugees Summary

by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 209 pages

Historical Fiction

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4 Summary

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4

The Minority Report

by Philip K. Dick 1987 396 pages

Science Fiction

Science Fiction Fantasy

Evidence of the Affair Summary

Evidence of the Affair

by Taylor Jenkins Reid 2018 88 pages

Invisible Planets Summary

Invisible Planets

Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

by Ken Liu 2016 383 pages

Science Fiction

Small Wonder Summary

by Barbara Kingsolver 2002 264 pages

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad Summary

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

by Damilare Kuku 2024 254 pages

On Drinking Summary

by Charles Bukowski 2019 263 pages

Two Women Walk into a Bar Summary

Two Women Walk into a Bar

by Cheryl Strayed 2024 31 pages

Lovers at the Museum Summary

Lovers at the Museum

by Isabel Allende 2024 25 pages

Doa Sang Katak 1 Summary

Doa Sang Katak 1

Meditasi Dengan Cerita

by Anthony de Mello 1988 298 pages

Farmer Giles of Ham Summary

Farmer Giles of Ham

by J.R.R. Tolkien 1949 127 pages

Machine Learning Summary

Machine Learning

New and Collected Stories

by Hugh Howey 2017 352 pages

Science Fiction

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

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 304 pages

Drop, Cover, and Hold On Summary

Drop, Cover, and Hold On

by Jasmine Guillory 2024 40 pages

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Summary

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle 1927 1796 pages

The Shadow Out of Time Summary

The Shadow Out of Time

by H.P. Lovecraft 1936 140 pages

Science Fiction

My Planet Summary

Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

by Mary Roach 2013 191 pages

Falling in Love Again Summary

Falling in Love Again

by Ruskin Bond 2013 195 pages

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories Summary

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories

by Agatha Christie 1950 288 pages

Ficciones Summary

by Jorge Luis Borges 1944 174 pages

Magical Realism

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories Summary

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

by Oscar Wilde 1891 320 pages

The Yellow Wall-Paper Summary

The Yellow Wall-Paper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 54 pages

Let It Snow Summary

by John Green 2008 353 pages

The Demigod Files Summary

The Demigod Files

by Rick Riordan 2009 151 pages

Unaccustomed Earth Summary

Unaccustomed Earth

by Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 352 pages

A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary

A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul

101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Soul

by Jack Canfield 1997 376 pages

20th Century Ghosts Summary

20th Century Ghosts

by Joe Hill 2005 316 pages

The Emperor's Soul Summary

The Emperor's Soul

by Brandon Sanderson 2012 192 pages

Books v. Cigarettes Summary

Books v. Cigarettes

by George Orwell 1946 126 pages

Royal Valentine Summary

Royal Valentine

by Sariah Wilson 2024 71 pages

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