Telling Stories is the fifth album by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, released on February 14, 2000, by Elektra Records.

A two-disc special edition was released in Europe in 2000.

The record marked a return to shorter songs for Tracy; on New Beginning they had been somewhat longer.

In 1999, Chapman began working on her first new record in four years, her longest ever hiatus at the time.

For the record, she reunited with producer David Kershenbaum, the producer of her first album, Tracy Chapman (1988), and co-producer of her second album, Crossroads (1989).