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

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Summary

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

by Sylvia Plath 1977 336 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

The Lantern of Lost Memories Summary

The Lantern of Lost Memories

by Sanaka Hiiragi 2019 208 pages

Magical Realism

The Good Immigrant Summary

The Good Immigrant

26 Writers Reflect on America

by Nikesh Shukla 2019 336 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

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

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream Summary

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

by Harlan Ellison 1967 134 pages

Science Fiction

Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Soul

by Jack Canfield 1993 428 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

The Canterbury Tales Summary

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 504 pages

Inciting Joy Summary

by Ross Gay 2022 256 pages

Nostalgia Summary

by Mircea Cărtărescu 1989 361 pages

Romanian Literature

How to Write Short Stories And Use Them to Further Your Writing Career Summary

How to Write Short Stories And Use Them to Further Your Writing Career

by James Scott Bell 2016 114 pages

Skeleton Crew Summary

by Stephen King 1985 612 pages

Déjame que te cuente Summary

Déjame que te cuente

by Jorge Bucay 1994 240 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

The Lonely Voice Summary

The Lonely Voice

A Study of the Short Story

by Frank O'Connor 1961 224 pages

Literary Criticism

Franny and Zooey Summary

Franny and Zooey

by J.D. Salinger 1957 201 pages

The Yellow Wall-Paper Summary

The Yellow Wall-Paper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 62 pages

My Evil Mother Summary

by Margaret Atwood 2022 32 pages

Historical Fiction

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

The Most Dangerous Game Summary

The Most Dangerous Game

by Richard Connell 1924 48 pages

Rejection Summary

by Tony Tulathimutte 2024 272 pages

Literary Fiction

Worst Wingman Ever Summary

Worst Wingman Ever

by Abby Jimenez 2024 61 pages

The Martian Chronicles Summary

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury 1950 182 pages

Science Fiction

The Jungle Book Summary

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling 1894 277 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

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love and Friendship Summary

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love and Friendship

by Jack Canfield 2002 300 pages

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories Summary

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka 1915 352 pages

by Gillian Anderson 2024 372 pages

You Like It Darker Summary

You Like It Darker

by Stephen King 2024 502 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

Life Ceremony Summary

by Sayaka Murata 2019 256 pages

So Sad Today Summary

Personal Essays

by Melissa Broder 2016 206 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

These Precious Days Summary

These Precious Days

by Ann Patchett 2021 320 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 Exception to the Rule Summary

The Exception to the Rule

by Christina Lauren 2024 101 pages

The Slow Regard of Silent Things Summary

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

by Patrick Rothfuss 2014 159 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

Me Talk Pretty One Day Summary

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris 2000 272 pages

Small Wonder Summary

by Barbara Kingsolver 2002 264 pages

Doa Sang Katak 1 Summary

Doa Sang Katak 1

Meditasi Dengan Cerita

by Anthony de Mello 1988 298 pages

I Am Legend and Other Stories Summary

I Am Legend and Other Stories

by Richard Matheson 1954 317 pages

Science Fiction

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories Summary

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

by Oscar Wilde 1891 320 pages

On Drinking Summary

by Charles Bukowski 2019 263 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

Before We Say Goodbye Summary

Before We Say Goodbye

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2021 173 pages

Magical Realism

Japanese Literature

With Any Luck Summary

by Ashley Poston 2024 43 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

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