Short Stories

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Short Stories Book Summaries

Royal Valentine Summary

Royal Valentine

by Sariah Wilson 2024 71 pages

Loathe to Love You Summary

Loathe to Love You

by Ali Hazelwood 2023 370 pages

Contemporary Romance

The Bookstore Sisters Summary

The Bookstore Sisters

by Alice Hoffman 2022 36 pages

Books About Books

My Evil Mother Summary

by Margaret Atwood 2022 32 pages

Historical Fiction

The Gift Summary

by Freida McFadden 2022 47 pages

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories Summary

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

by Holly Black 2020 200 pages

Cut and Thirst Summary

by Margaret Atwood 2024 35 pages

Lovers at the Museum Summary

Lovers at the Museum

by Isabel Allende 2024 25 pages

Two Women Walk into a Bar Summary

Two Women Walk into a Bar

by Cheryl Strayed 2024 31 pages

Evidence of the Affair Summary

Evidence of the Affair

by Taylor Jenkins Reid 2018 88 pages

A Divergent Story Collection

by Veronica Roth 2014 285 pages

The Slow Regard of Silent Things Summary

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

by Patrick Rothfuss 2014 159 pages

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories Summary

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

by Oscar Wilde 1891 320 pages

The Housemaid's Wedding Summary

The Housemaid's Wedding

by Freida McFadden 2024 76 pages

Mystery Thriller

Like a House on Fire Summary

Like a House on Fire

by Cate Kennedy 2012 288 pages

Rejection Summary

by Tony Tulathimutte 2024 272 pages

Literary Fiction

Diary Of A Murderer Summary

Diary Of A Murderer

And Other Stories

by Young-ha Kim 2019 200 pages

In Bloom Summary

by Paul Tremblay 2023 35 pages

On Drinking Summary

by Charles Bukowski 2019 263 pages

Dubliners Summary

by James Joyce 1914 352 pages

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Summary

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle 1892 389 pages

The Yellow Wall-Paper Summary

The Yellow Wall-Paper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 129 pages

The Things They Carried Summary

The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien 1990 246 pages

Historical Fiction

Beekeeping for Beginners Summary

Beekeeping for Beginners

by Laurie R. King 2011 77 pages

Historical Fiction

Who Goes There? Summary

Who Goes There?

by John W. Campbell Jr. 1938 161 pages

Science Fiction

Filthy Animals Summary

by Brandon Taylor 2021 288 pages

The Shawshank Redemption Summary

The Shawshank Redemption

Different Seasons

by Stephen King 1994 507 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

I Am Legend and Other Stories Summary

I Am Legend and Other Stories

by Richard Matheson 1954 317 pages

Science Fiction

Humans of New York Summary

Humans of New York

by Brandon Stanton 2015 428 pages

Life Ceremony Summary

by Sayaka Murata 2019 256 pages

The House of Hunger Summary

The House of Hunger

by Dambudzo Marechera 1978 160 pages

Sidecountry Summary

Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports

by John Branch 2021 368 pages

The Most Dangerous Game Summary

The Most Dangerous Game

by Richard Connell 1924 48 pages

Collected Ghost Stories Summary

Collected Ghost Stories

by M.R. James 1931 568 pages

The Shadow Out of Time Summary

The Shadow Out of Time

by H.P. Lovecraft 1936 140 pages

Science Fiction

Bad Dreams in the Night Summary

Bad Dreams in the Night

by Adam Ellis 2024 256 pages

The Cuck Summary

by Aron Beauregard 2022 76 pages

Blue Bamboo Summary

Japanese Tales of Fantasy

by Osamu Dazai 1993 184 pages

Japanese Literature

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Summary

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 32 pages

Russian Literature

Farmer Giles of Ham Summary

Farmer Giles of Ham

by J.R.R. Tolkien 1949 127 pages

Benito Cereno Summary

by Herman Melville 1855 160 pages

The Mysterious Mr. Quin Summary

The Mysterious Mr. Quin

by Agatha Christie 1930 396 pages

Men Without Women Summary

Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages

Mr Salary Summary

by Sally Rooney 2016 33 pages

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