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

Ellison Wonderland Summary

Ellison Wonderland

by Harlan Ellison 1962 195 pages

Science Fiction

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Summary

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace 2005 343 pages

Rosie and the Dreamboat Summary

Rosie and the Dreamboat

by Sally Thorne 2024 44 pages

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Summary

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway 1987 650 pages

Slouching Towards Bethlehem Summary

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion 1968 238 pages

Momma and the Meaning of Life Summary

Momma and the Meaning of Life

Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom 1999 272 pages

The Bookstore Sisters Summary

The Bookstore Sisters

by Alice Hoffman 2022 36 pages

Books About Books

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Summary

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera 1979 313 pages

Czech Literature

A Broken People's Playlist Summary

A Broken People's Playlist

by Chimeka Garricks 2020 255 pages

Love Medicine Summary

by Louise Erdrich 1984 367 pages

Historical Fiction

Native American

The Book of (More) Delights Summary

The Book of (More) Delights

by Ross Gay 2023 304 pages

Interpreter of Maladies Summary

Interpreter of Maladies

by Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 198 pages

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy Summary

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

by Cassandra Clare 2016 655 pages

Men Without Women Summary

Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages

The Murders in the Rue Morgue Summary

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

by Edgar Allan Poe 1841 38 pages

The Pleasures of the Damned Summary

The Pleasures of the Damned

by Charles Bukowski 2007 557 pages

Kurdish Women's Stories Summary

Kurdish Women's Stories

by Houzan Mahmoud 2021 224 pages

Nocturnes Summary

Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

by Kazuo Ishiguro 2009 221 pages

I Used to Be Charming Summary

I Used to Be Charming

The Rest of Eve Babitz

by Eve Babitz 2019 448 pages

To Build a Fire Summary

To Build a Fire

by Jack London 1902 32 pages

The Raven Summary

by Edgar Allan Poe 1845 64 pages

Bad Dreams in the Night Summary

Bad Dreams in the Night

by Adam Ellis 2024 256 pages

Ghosts of the Shadow Market Summary

Ghosts of the Shadow Market

by Cassandra Clare 2019 617 pages

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship Summary

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship

by The Oprah Magazine O 2016

Loathe to Love You Summary

Loathe to Love You

by Ali Hazelwood 2023 370 pages

Contemporary Romance

Filthy Animals Summary

by Brandon Taylor 2021 288 pages

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye Summary

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

Five Fairy Stories

by A.S. Byatt 1994 274 pages

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Summary

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle 1914 709 pages

Radicalized Summary

by Cory Doctorow 2019 304 pages

Science Fiction

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Summary

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

by David Sedaris 2004 257 pages

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Summary

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

by Franz Kafka 1996 88 pages

Collected Ghost Stories Summary

Collected Ghost Stories

by M.R. James 1931 568 pages

Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Tough Times, Tough People: 101 Stories about Overcoming the Economic Crisis and Other Challenges

by Jack Canfield 2009 414 pages

Enchanted Summary

Erotic Bedtime Stories For Women

by Nancy Madore 2004 256 pages

Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies Summary

Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies

by J.K. Rowling 2016 71 pages

Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories Summary

Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

by Cho Nam-Joo 2021 223 pages

Speedboat Summary

by Renata Adler 1976 192 pages

The Grownup Summary

by Gillian Flynn 2014 64 pages

Living Beyond Borders Summary

Living Beyond Borders

Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America

by Margarita Longoria 2021 224 pages

3 Days to Live Summary

by James Patterson 2023 400 pages

Blue Bamboo Summary

Japanese Tales of Fantasy

by Osamu Dazai 1993 184 pages

Japanese Literature

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Summary

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe 1849 304 pages

The Great God Pan Summary

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen 1890 82 pages

Diary of a Superfluous Man Summary

Diary of a Superfluous Man

by Ivan Turgenev 1850 80 pages

Russian Literature

The Complete Stories Summary

The Complete Stories

by Flannery O'Connor 1971 555 pages

The Mysterious Mr. Quin Summary

The Mysterious Mr. Quin

by Agatha Christie 1930 396 pages

Magical Thinking Summary

Magical Thinking

by Augusten Burroughs 2004 304 pages

Run With the Hunted Summary

Run With the Hunted

A Charles Bukowski Reader

by Charles Bukowski 1994 497 pages

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales Summary

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm 1812 880 pages

Beekeeping for Beginners Summary

Beekeeping for Beginners

by Laurie R. King 2011 77 pages

Historical Fiction

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