Short Stories

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Short Stories Book Summaries

The Empathy Exams Summary

The Empathy Exams

by Leslie Jamison 2014 230 pages

Blue Bamboo Summary

Japanese Tales of Fantasy

by Osamu Dazai 1993 184 pages

Japanese Literature

American Supernatural Tales Summary

American Supernatural Tales

by S.T. Joshi 2007 478 pages

The Woman Destroyed Summary

The Woman Destroyed

by Simone de Beauvoir 1967 254 pages

The Lottery and Other Stories Summary

The Lottery and Other Stories

by Shirley Jackson 1949 302 pages

I Used to Be Charming Summary

I Used to Be Charming

The Rest of Eve Babitz

by Eve Babitz 2019 448 pages

Magical Thinking Summary

Magical Thinking

by Augusten Burroughs 2004 304 pages

Galatea Summary

by Madeline Miller 2013 27 pages

Enchanted Summary

Erotic Bedtime Stories For Women

by Nancy Madore 2004 256 pages

Filthy Animals Summary

by Brandon Taylor 2021 288 pages

The Mysterious Mr. Quin Summary

The Mysterious Mr. Quin

by Agatha Christie 1930 396 pages

All Aunt Hagar's Children Summary

All Aunt Hagar's Children

by Edward P. Jones 2006 399 pages

Historical Fiction

African American

Short Stories in French for Beginners Summary

Short Stories in French for Beginners

by Olly Richards 2018 252 pages

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Summary

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe 1843 688 pages

Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

by Robert Fulghum 1991 244 pages

Daisy Miller Summary

by Henry James 1879 164 pages

Tales From the Hinterland Summary

Tales From the Hinterland

by Melissa Albert 2021 240 pages

The Canterbury Tales Summary

The Canterbury Tales

by Peter Ackroyd 2009 436 pages

Historical Fiction

Collected Ghost Stories Summary

Collected Ghost Stories

by M.R. James 1931 568 pages

Show Don't Tell Summary

Show Don't Tell

by Curtis Sittenfeld 2025 320 pages

Literary Fiction

Imaginary Lives Summary

Imaginary Lives

by Marcel Schwob 1896 90 pages

by Hans Holzer 1997 761 pages

Tales from the Perilous Realm Summary

Tales from the Perilous Realm

by J.R.R. Tolkien 1997 178 pages

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. Summary

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

by Samantha Irby 2017 275 pages

The Fall of the House of Usher Summary

The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe 2004 36 pages

What On Earth Have I Done? Summary

What On Earth Have I Done?

Stories, Observations, and Affirmations

by Robert Fulghum 1997 320 pages

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship Summary

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship

by The Oprah Magazine O 2016

by Edith Wharton 1937 288 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

Night of Cake & Puppets Summary

Night of Cake & Puppets

by Laini Taylor 2013 256 pages

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Summary

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

by David Sedaris 2004 257 pages

23 1/2 Lies Summary

by James Patterson 2023 448 pages

The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings Summary

The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings

by Peter Haining 2008 512 pages

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer Summary

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

by Fredrik Backman 2015 97 pages

The Sleeper and the Spindle Summary

The Sleeper and the Spindle

by Neil Gaiman 2013 68 pages

Fantastic Night & Other Stories Summary

Fantastic Night & Other Stories

by Stefan Zweig 1922 164 pages

German Literature

Dispatches from Planet 3 Summary

Dispatches from Planet 3

Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond

by Marcia Bartusiak 2018 320 pages

The Lightning Tree Summary

The Lightning Tree

by Patrick Rothfuss 2014 93 pages

Beekeeping for Beginners Summary

Beekeeping for Beginners

by Laurie R. King 2011 77 pages

Historical Fiction

Bedtime Stories for Kids Summary

Bedtime Stories for Kids

by Uncle Amon 2015 28 pages

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault Summary

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault

Essays from the Grown-up Years

by Cathy Guisewite 2019 336 pages

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy Summary

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

by Cassandra Clare 2015 78 pages

The Tangleroot Palace Summary

The Tangleroot Palace

by Marjorie M. Liu 2021 239 pages

Stars Above Summary

by Marissa Meyer 2016 400 pages

Science Fiction

North American Lake Monsters Summary

North American Lake Monsters

by Nathan Ballingrud 2013 205 pages

Crooked Hallelujah Summary

Crooked Hallelujah

by Kelli Jo Ford 2020 304 pages

Historical Fiction

Literary Fiction

El hombre semen Summary

El hombre semen

by Violette Ailhaud 2010 46 pages

Hanul Ancuței Summary

by Mihail Sadoveanu 1928 142 pages

Romanian Literature

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba Summary

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

by Gabriel García Márquez 2006 104 pages

Spanish Literature

The End of the World As We Know It Summary

The End of the World As We Know It

New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand

by Christopher Golden 2025 779 pages

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