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

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 Gathering Dark Summary

The Gathering Dark

An Anthology of Folk Horror

by Tori Bovalino 2022 272 pages

Exhalation Summary

by Ted Chiang 2019 368 pages

Science Fiction

Stories of Your Life and Others Summary

Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang 2002 281 pages

Science Fiction

by Hans Holzer 1997 761 pages

What On Earth Have I Done? Summary

What On Earth Have I Done?

Stories, Observations, and Affirmations

by Robert Fulghum 1997 320 pages

Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

by Robert Fulghum 1991 244 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

All Aunt Hagar's Children Summary

All Aunt Hagar's Children

by Edward P. Jones 2006 399 pages

Historical Fiction

African American

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. Summary

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

by Samantha Irby 2017 275 pages

Books of Blood Summary

Volumes One to Three

by Clive Barker 1984 507 pages

Crooked Hallelujah Summary

Crooked Hallelujah

by Kelli Jo Ford 2020 304 pages

Historical Fiction

Literary Fiction

Bedtime Stories for Kids Summary

Bedtime Stories for Kids

by Uncle Amon 2015 28 pages

Tales from Watership Down Summary

Tales from Watership Down

by Richard Adams 1996 335 pages

El hombre semen Summary

El hombre semen

by Violette Ailhaud 2010 46 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

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

Fantastic Night & Other Stories Summary

Fantastic Night & Other Stories

by Stefan Zweig 1922 164 pages

German Literature

Night of Cake & Puppets Summary

Night of Cake & Puppets

by Laini Taylor 2013 256 pages

The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings Summary

The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings

by Peter Haining 2008 512 pages

The Tangleroot Palace Summary

The Tangleroot Palace

by Marjorie M. Liu 2021 239 pages

American Supernatural Tales Summary

American Supernatural Tales

by S.T. Joshi 2007 478 pages

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy Summary

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

by Cassandra Clare 2015 78 pages

Tales From the Hinterland Summary

Tales From the Hinterland

by Melissa Albert 2021 240 pages

Imaginary Lives Summary

Imaginary Lives

by Marcel Schwob 1896 90 pages

Short Stories in French for Beginners Summary

Short Stories in French for Beginners

by Olly Richards 2018 252 pages

The Canterbury Tales Summary

The Canterbury Tales

by Peter Ackroyd 2009 436 pages

Historical Fiction

23 1/2 Lies Summary

by James Patterson 2023 448 pages

The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories Summary

The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories

by Gigi Pandian 2018 270 pages

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