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

Forty Tales from the Afterlives

by David Eagleman 2009 110 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

These Precious Days Summary

These Precious Days

by Ann Patchett 2021 320 pages

With Any Luck Summary

by Ashley Poston 2024 43 pages

The Jungle Book Summary

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling 1894 277 pages

Marcovaldo Summary

by Italo Calvino 1963 128 pages

Italian Literature

The Black Cat Summary

by Edgar Allan Poe 1843 24 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

I Am Legend and Other Stories Summary

I Am Legend and Other Stories

by Richard Matheson 1954 317 pages

Science Fiction

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

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

Cut and Thirst Summary

by Margaret Atwood 2024 35 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

On Drinking Summary

by Charles Bukowski 2019 263 pages

The Man Who Counted Summary

The Man Who Counted

A Collection of Mathematical Adventures

by Malba Tahan 1938 256 pages

Small Wonder Summary

by Barbara Kingsolver 2002 264 pages

Machine Learning Summary

Machine Learning

New and Collected Stories

by Hugh Howey 2017 352 pages

Science Fiction

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

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 254 pages

In Bloom Summary

by Paul Tremblay 2023 35 pages

Two Women Walk into a Bar Summary

Two Women Walk into a Bar

by Cheryl Strayed 2024 31 pages

Invisible Planets Summary

Invisible Planets

Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

by Ken Liu 2016 383 pages

Science Fiction

Doa Sang Katak 1 Summary

Doa Sang Katak 1

Meditasi Dengan Cerita

by Anthony de Mello 1988 298 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

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories Summary

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

by Oscar Wilde 1891 320 pages

Lovers at the Museum Summary

Lovers at the Museum

by Isabel Allende 2024 25 pages

The Refugees Summary

by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 209 pages

Historical Fiction

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 304 pages

Humans of New York Summary

Humans of New York

by Brandon Stanton 2015 428 pages

The Shadow Out of Time Summary

The Shadow Out of Time

by H.P. Lovecraft 1936 140 pages

Science Fiction

Bartleby the Scrivener Summary

Bartleby the Scrivener

by Herman Melville 1853 64 pages

Evidence of the Affair Summary

Evidence of the Affair

by Taylor Jenkins Reid 2018 88 pages

Farmer Giles of Ham Summary

Farmer Giles of Ham

by J.R.R. Tolkien 1949 127 pages

Drop, Cover, and Hold On Summary

Drop, Cover, and Hold On

by Jasmine Guillory 2024 40 pages

My Planet Summary

Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

by Mary Roach 2013 191 pages

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Summary

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle 1927 1796 pages

The Life of a Stupid Man Summary

The Life of a Stupid Man

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 1927 55 pages

Japanese Literature

Let It Snow Summary

by John Green 2008 353 pages

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Summary

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace 2005 343 pages

Ellison Wonderland Summary

Ellison Wonderland

by Harlan Ellison 1962 195 pages

Science Fiction

20th Century Ghosts Summary

20th Century Ghosts

by Joe Hill 2005 316 pages

Rosie and the Dreamboat Summary

Rosie and the Dreamboat

by Sally Thorne 2024 44 pages

Royal Valentine Summary

Royal Valentine

by Sariah Wilson 2024 71 pages

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad Summary

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

by Damilare Kuku 2024 254 pages

Slouching Towards Bethlehem Summary

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion 1968 238 pages

The Book of (More) Delights Summary

The Book of (More) Delights

by Ross Gay 2023 304 pages

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Summary

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera 1979 313 pages

Czech Literature

Stag Dance Summary

by Torrey Peters 2025 288 pages

Falling in Love Again Summary

Falling in Love Again

by Ruskin Bond 2013 195 pages

Unaccustomed Earth Summary

Unaccustomed Earth

by Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 352 pages

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories Summary

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories

by Agatha Christie 1950 288 pages

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