The Handbook of Narrative Analysis investigates the recent developments of sociolinguistics-oriented and discourse-oriented narrative studies. This paper first gives a brief review on the studies of non-literary narratives, especially in the field of second and foreign language education, and then introduces the main contents of the book. Finally, it discusses how the book can inform narrative studies in foreign language education in terms of sources and types of narrative data, approaches and specific methods of analyzing narratives, recent focuses and possible applications. This paper calls for more localized research by doing micro analysis of narratives that occur in various foreign language teaching and learning contexts in China.