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

Palm Sunday Summary

An Autobiographical Collage

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 pages

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Summary

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

by David Sedaris 2004 257 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

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

Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul

101 Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Women

by Jack Canfield 1996 351 pages

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

Creatures of a Day Summary

Creatures of a Day

And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom 2015 215 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

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II Summary

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II

by Jack Canfield 1998 351 pages

A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary

A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul

101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

by Jack Canfield 1994 352 pages

Men Without Women Summary

Men Without Women

by Haruki Murakami 2014 242 pages

Japanese Literature

Wise and Otherwise Summary

Wise and Otherwise

by Sudha Murty 2006 220 pages

Indian Literature

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

So Sad Today Summary

Personal Essays

by Melissa Broder 2016 203 pages

Modern Love Summary

True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

by Daniel Jones 2007 304 pages

I Used to Be Charming Summary

I Used to Be Charming

The Rest of Eve Babitz

by Eve Babitz 2019 448 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

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

My Planet Summary

Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

by Mary Roach 2013 191 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

Well-Read Black Girl Summary

Well-Read Black Girl

Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

by Glory Edim 2018 201 pages

AI 2041 Summary

Ten Visions for Our Future

by Kai-Fu Lee 2021 480 pages

Artificial Intelligence

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

Déjame que te cuente Summary

Déjame que te cuente

by Jorge Bucay 1994 240 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

These Precious Days Summary

These Precious Days

by Ann Patchett 2021 320 pages

Callings Summary

The Purpose and Passion of Work

by Dave Isay 2016 266 pages

Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Think Positive: 101 Inspirational Stories about Counting Your Blessings and Having a Positive Attitude

by Jack Canfield 2010 432 pages

Inciting Joy Summary

by Ross Gay 2022 256 pages

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship Summary

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship

by The Oprah Magazine O 2016

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love & Friendship Summary

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love & Friendship

by Jack Canfield

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Summary

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace 2005 343 pages

Small Wonder Summary

by Barbara Kingsolver 2002 264 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

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror Summary

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 224 pages

The Metamorphosis Summary

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka 1915 201 pages

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky Summary

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 320 pages

White Nights Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1848 82 pages

Russian Literature

The Death of Ivan Ilych Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 86 pages

Russian Literature

by Gillian Anderson 2024 372 pages

The Canterbury Tales Summary

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 504 pages

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Summary

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks 1985 243 pages

A Visit from the Goon Squad Summary

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan 2010 274 pages

Aesop’s Fables Summary

Aesop’s Fables

by Aesop 352 pages

Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul

Real Stories by Real Girls About Real Stuff

by Jack Canfield 2005 350 pages

The Complete Stories and Poems Summary

The Complete Stories and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe 1849 821 pages

The Call of Cthulhu Summary

The Call of Cthulhu

by H.P. Lovecraft 1928 43 pages

The House on Mango Street Summary

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros 1984 110 pages

The Martian Chronicles Summary

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury 1950 182 pages

Science Fiction

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