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

Worst Wingman Ever Summary

Worst Wingman Ever

by Abby Jimenez 2024 61 pages

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love and Friendship Summary

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love and Friendship

by Jack Canfield 2002 300 pages

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About Summary

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

by Michele Filgate 2019 288 pages

My Evil Mother Summary

by Margaret Atwood 2022 32 pages

Historical Fiction

The Lonely Voice Summary

The Lonely Voice

A Study of the Short Story

by Frank O'Connor 1961 224 pages

Literary Criticism

The Fall Risk Summary

by Abby Jimenez 2025 82 pages

The Demigod Files Summary

The Demigod Files

by Rick Riordan 2009 151 pages

The Slow Regard of Silent Things Summary

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

by Patrick Rothfuss 2014 159 pages

Skeleton Crew Summary

by Stephen King 1985 612 pages

Nocturnes Summary

Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

by Kazuo Ishiguro 2009 221 pages

Unaccustomed Earth Summary

Unaccustomed Earth

by Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 352 pages

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Summary

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

by Ursula K. Le Guin 1973 32 pages

Science Fiction

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Summary

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

by Robert Fulghum 1986 221 pages

Books of Blood Summary

Volumes One to Three

by Clive Barker 1984 507 pages

Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul

Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Educators

by Jack Canfield 2002 384 pages

The Man Who Counted Summary

The Man Who Counted

A Collection of Mathematical Adventures

by Malba Tahan 1938 256 pages

Déjame que te cuente Summary

Déjame que te cuente

by Jorge Bucay 1994 240 pages

The Exception to the Rule Summary

The Exception to the Rule

by Christina Lauren 2024 101 pages

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Summary

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway 1987 650 pages

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning

by Jack Canfield 1997 353 pages

Evidence of the Affair Summary

Evidence of the Affair

by Taylor Jenkins Reid 2018 88 pages

Cathedral Summary

by Raymond Carver 1983 230 pages

The Complete Stories and Poems Summary

The Complete Stories and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe 1849 821 pages

In Bloom Summary

by Paul Tremblay 2023 35 pages

Sleeping Beauty Summary

Sleeping Beauty

by Jacob Grimm 1697 32 pages

20th Century Ghosts Summary

20th Century Ghosts

by Joe Hill 2005 316 pages

Inciting Joy Summary

by Ross Gay 2022 256 pages

Franny and Zooey Summary

Franny and Zooey

by J.D. Salinger 1957 201 pages

The Yellow Wall-Paper Summary

The Yellow Wall-Paper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 62 pages

Momma and the Meaning of Life Summary

Momma and the Meaning of Life

Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom 1999 272 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

A Broken People's Playlist Summary

A Broken People's Playlist

by Chimeka Garricks 2020 255 pages

Cut and Thirst Summary

by Margaret Atwood 2024 35 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

Invisible Planets Summary

Invisible Planets

Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

by Ken Liu 2016 383 pages

Science Fiction

You Like It Darker Summary

You Like It Darker

by Stephen King 2024 502 pages

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Summary

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Essays and Arguments

by David Foster Wallace 1996 353 pages

How to Write Short Stories And Use Them to Further Your Writing Career Summary

How to Write Short Stories And Use Them to Further Your Writing Career

by James Scott Bell 2016 114 pages

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales Summary

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm 1812 880 pages

These Precious Days Summary

These Precious Days

by Ann Patchett 2021 320 pages

Farmer Giles of Ham Summary

Farmer Giles of Ham

by J.R.R. Tolkien 1949 127 pages

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 304 pages

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Summary

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle 1927 1796 pages

Machine Learning Summary

Machine Learning

New and Collected Stories

by Hugh Howey 2017 352 pages

Science Fiction

On Drinking Summary

by Charles Bukowski 2019 263 pages

So Sad Today Summary

Personal Essays

by Melissa Broder 2016 206 pages

The Shadow Out of Time Summary

The Shadow Out of Time

by H.P. Lovecraft 1936 140 pages

Science Fiction

The Raven Summary

by Edgar Allan Poe 1845 64 pages

Radicalized Summary

by Cory Doctorow 2019 304 pages

Science Fiction

With Any Luck Summary

by Ashley Poston 2024 43 pages

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