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

The Grownup Summary

by Gillian Flynn 2014 64 pages

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Summary

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

by Franz Kafka 1996 88 pages

Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Random Acts of Kindness: 101 Stories of Compassion and Paying It Forward

by Amy Newmark 2017 373 pages

Lovers at the Museum Summary

Lovers at the Museum

by Isabel Allende 2024 25 pages

Books v. Cigarettes Summary

Books v. Cigarettes

by George Orwell 1946 126 pages

The Jungle Book Summary

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling 1894 277 pages

My Planet Summary

Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

by Mary Roach 2013 191 pages

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

The Pleasures of the Damned Summary

The Pleasures of the Damned

by Charles Bukowski 2007 557 pages

Men Without Women Summary

Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages

Small Wonder Summary

by Barbara Kingsolver 2002 264 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

Two Women Walk into a Bar Summary

Two Women Walk into a Bar

by Cheryl Strayed 2024 31 pages

The Complete Stories Summary

The Complete Stories

by Flannery O'Connor 1971 555 pages

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

Things We Lost in the Fire Summary

Things We Lost in the Fire

by Mariana Enríquez 2016 192 pages

Magical Realism

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy Summary

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

by Cassandra Clare 2016 655 pages

The Library of Babel Summary

The Library of Babel

by Jorge Luis Borges 2000 176 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

Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time Summary

Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

by Brian W. Aldiss 1969 256 pages

Science Fiction

Let It Snow Summary

by John Green 2008 353 pages

Slouching Towards Bethlehem Summary

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion 1968 238 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

The Bookstore Sisters Summary

The Bookstore Sisters

by Alice Hoffman 2022 36 pages

Books About Books

Ghosts of the Shadow Market Summary

Ghosts of the Shadow Market

by Cassandra Clare 2019 617 pages

Stories of Your Life and Others Summary

Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang 2002 281 pages

Science Fiction

Loathe to Love You Summary

Loathe to Love You

by Ali Hazelwood 2023 370 pages

Contemporary Romance

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Summary

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera 1979 313 pages

Czech Literature

To Build a Fire Summary

To Build a Fire

by Jack London 1902 32 pages

Run With the Hunted Summary

Run With the Hunted

A Charles Bukowski Reader

by Charles Bukowski 1994 497 pages

Speedboat Summary

by Renata Adler 1976 192 pages

Diary of a Superfluous Man Summary

Diary of a Superfluous Man

by Ivan Turgenev 1850 80 pages

Russian Literature

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Summary

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe 1849 304 pages

3 Days to Live Summary

by James Patterson 2023 400 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

Drop, Cover, and Hold On Summary

Drop, Cover, and Hold On

by Jasmine Guillory 2024 40 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

Ellison Wonderland Summary

Ellison Wonderland

by Harlan Ellison 1962 195 pages

Science Fiction

Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories Summary

Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

by Cho Nam-Joo 2021 223 pages

The Gathering Dark Summary

The Gathering Dark

An Anthology of Folk Horror

by Tori Bovalino 2022 272 pages

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Summary

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace 2005 343 pages

Royal Valentine Summary

Royal Valentine

by Sariah Wilson 2024 71 pages

The Book of (More) Delights Summary

The Book of (More) Delights

by Ross Gay 2023 304 pages

Doa Sang Katak 1 Summary

Doa Sang Katak 1

Meditasi Dengan Cerita

by Anthony de Mello 1988 298 pages

Rosie and the Dreamboat Summary

Rosie and the Dreamboat

by Sally Thorne 2024 44 pages

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories Summary

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

by Oscar Wilde 1891 320 pages

Never Whistle at Night Summary

Never Whistle at Night

An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

by Shane Hawk 2023 416 pages

Bad Dreams in the Night Summary

Bad Dreams in the Night

by Adam Ellis 2024 256 pages

Kurdish Women's Stories Summary

Kurdish Women's Stories

by Houzan Mahmoud 2021 224 pages

Tales from Watership Down Summary

Tales from Watership Down

by Richard Adams 1996 335 pages

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