51 Lesser Known Stories from the Mahabharata - Sharath Kommaraju (2015)

These stories are side stories of Mahabharata and may not have direct significance to the epic. The stories are told giving maximum importance to the story and not the context and morals. Hence, most of the time it'll be hard to guess in what context the story may have been told. There is a general assumption that you know the central theme of Mahabharata very well. Lack of understanding there will not be remediated by this book. The author seems to have the skills to present a story succinctly, since the stories lack the context one may feel a bit of a miss moving from story to story.

A very quick read that you can finish in couple of hours, hence can be advised. For someone who looks at Mahabharata in a distict spiritual light will not learn much from such a book.