Memoirs

Salman Rushdie Knife Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie Reflects on His Attempted Murder in Revealing Memoir, “Knife”

On August 12, 2022, while speaking at a literary festival at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, Salman Rushdie was stabbed 15 times. Now, blind in his right eye and still suffering the aftereffects of the attempted assassination, Rushdie has opened up about the experience in his new memoir,…

BookTribApril 16, 2024

The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell

Better Self Nonfiction

“Cultish” Author Examines Relationships, Celebrity Worship and “Magical Overthinking”

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brilliant” (Blyth Roberson, author…

BookTribApril 9, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Inspiring Memoir About Tenacity and Ambition in Ad Man’s Ascent to Success

All he ever wanted was to be an ad man. Who ever would have imagined that he would get his first inkling of that career path hiding under the family’s dining room table in suburban London while avoiding the Nazi air raids during World War II? Beneath that sturdy table,…

Jim AlkonMarch 13, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Riveting Memoir Reveals Lifetime of Lessons from Teacher’s Time in Remote Alaskan Village

When I finished reading Teaching in the Dark by Genét Simone, I felt as if I had just spent months living in the small remote village of Shishmaref, Alaska right along with her. That’s how thoroughly entrancing the author’s writing is. I could completely envision the village, the scenery, the…

Barbara WilkovFebruary 7, 2024

Listicles Nonfiction

Life at the Edge of the World: 5 Unforgettable Alaskan Memoirs

By far the largest state in the US, yet the most sparsely populated. A land of rich natural resources and unforgiving conditions, at the extremity of North America and extending into the Arctic Circle. As beautiful as it is deadly, Alaska has become a destination for countless thrill-seekers, adventurers and…

Cameron KimballFebruary 29, 2024

Author Spotlight

When Closure Can’t Be Found in the Justice System

Believe what you may, but My Father’s Story: The Murder of the Best Man I’ve Ever Known by Eric Johnson is not a murder mystery. There’s really no mystery at all. In this true account, Angelee Ross killed her on-again, off-again lover Bill Johnson, father of the author. But the…

BookTribFebruary 26, 2024

Nonfiction

Lifetime of Harsh & Whimsical Disappointments from Disgruntled Retiree

A lot can happen when you run away from home. In the span of a couple of weeks, how about: your 18-year-old sister also has left home, your dad has retired from the Army, and, oh, right, your parents have moved to a new house. And that’s to say nothing…

BookTribJanuary 30, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Son’s Harrowing Account of Trial of His Father’s Killer in True Crime Memoir

“I killed Bill, he’s gone, he’s dust.” She was in a hospital ward speaking matter-of-factly to a state trooper about her actions, showing no remorse. Earlier, she had been in a car accident and was found in her vehicle naked and caked in dry blood from head to toe. Believe…

BookTribFebruary 8, 2024

Audiobooks Listicles

3 Audiobooks for Readers Looking to Branch Out

While the new year can be a fantastic reading reset, all the goal-setting can sometimes get overwhelming. I personally love setting new reading goals each year, but I also firmly believe that goals are only as good as the joy and satisfaction they bring you. So I like to get…

Laura SacktonFebruary 2, 2024

Nonfiction

Pop-Culture Expert Kate Kennedy Unites, Uplifts, Celebrates Things That Define Millennial Women

As a millennial, nostalgia is my kryptonite. As soon as I saw this book, I knew I had to have it. As we millennials love to say, this book made me feel so seen — and I’m sure most millennials will appreciate that. One in a Millennial by Kate Kennedy…

Kelsey HallJanuary 23, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Bold Memoir Details Childfree Life Full of Travel, Adventures, Opportunity

Maria Coffey can fairly accurately be described as a nonconformist, pioneering, globe-trotting explorer and extreme expedition-leading kayaker who lives her life on her own terms, exuberantly to the fullest, then writes award-winning books about her voyages of discovery and spiritual quests. Having recently entered her eighth decade (which begins at…

Linda HitchcockJanuary 12, 2024

My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand | BookTrib

Nonfiction Pop Culture

Barbra Streisand’s Striking Memoir Captures Remarkable Career of Actor and Musical Icon

Who better than Barbra Streisand to write her memoir and accurately convey her inner feelings and true story? How many millions of words have been devoted to this living legend by the tabloids along with legitimate and speculative magazine articles in a career that has spanned more than six decades?…

Linda HitchcockDecember 18, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Nearly Destroyed in a Fire, a Box of Old Photos and Letters Reveals Hidden Family Secret

“When I was 27, I accidentally discovered that my father was Jewish. And that much of what I knew about him and his family was a lie.” Most of us are familiar with a few generations of our relatives. We have met some of them. We know their stories; we…

Jim AlkonSeptember 12, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Autobiography Follows a Path from Poverty to Faith to a Life in Public Service

“What has salvation meant to me? It has meant I have had many trials and tribulations, but God was with me making me stronger and better … It has meant everything to me.” These words perfectly encapsulate the sentiment of Frederick L. Hamilton’s gripping autobiography, The Coppinville Experience: From Poverty…

Katie BloomerNovember 16, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Memoir Turns Demons Into Hope in Breathtaking Collection of “Love Stories”

“We each hold the ageless keys to resurrect the true meanings of love and death from the frozen heap of our misaligned priorities and hardened hearts. Ah yes, we must do this individually or it will not budge the archetypes of destruction that surround us.” Jaqueline H. Becker, PH.D., has…

Jim AlkonNovember 8, 2023

Nonfiction Pop Culture

Britney Spears’ Powerful, Emotional Memoir is a Cultural Reckoning

Two, maybe even three, generations had lived for and loved Britney Spears over the past couple of decades. Her music is the soundtrack to many lives; her life is what sold millions of tabloids to little girls and boys — now women and men — who worship her. We were…

Monique SnymanOctober 25, 2023

Inspiring Memoir About Tenacity and Ambition in Ad Man’s Ascent to Success

Riveting Memoir Reveals Lifetime of Lessons from Teacher’s Time in Remote Alaskan Village

Life at the Edge of the World: 5 Unforgettable Alaskan Memoirs

When Closure Can’t Be Found in the Justice System

Lifetime of Harsh & Whimsical Disappointments from Disgruntled Retiree

Son’s Harrowing Account of Trial of His Father’s Killer in True Crime Memoir

3 Audiobooks for Readers Looking to Branch Out

Bold Memoir Details Childfree Life Full of Travel, Adventures, Opportunity

Nearly Destroyed in a Fire, a Box of Old Photos and Letters Reveals Hidden Family Secret

Autobiography Follows a Path from Poverty to Faith to a Life in Public Service

Memoir Turns Demons Into Hope in Breathtaking Collection of “Love Stories”

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