BookTrib Editors Predict 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards Winners

BookTrib Editors Predict 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards Winners

The moment you’ve been waiting all year for is finally here! It’s your chance to vote for your favorite books of the year — the ones that changed your life, that made you laugh, or cry, or lend it to a friend, or buy an extra copy for your shelf.…

BookTribNovember 26, 2024

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Upcoming Releases That Capture the Indomitable Spirit of Women

If you’re like me, you’re already scoping out novels releasing in 2025 to add to your to-be-read list. From what I’m seeing, it’s shaping up to be a fabulous year of reading, in part because of the amazing-sounding novels releasing from Tall Poppy writers, spanning historical fiction to contemporary women’s…

Jenni L. WalshDecember 2, 2024

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THE ONE BOOKISH GIFT GUIDE READERS WON’T WANT TO MISS

The air is snapping, the lights are blinking and the jingles are ... jingling. Now that Mariah is hitting the high notes about what she wants for Christmas, it’s time to figure out what we’re getting our book BFFs and literary lovebirds (or asking for ourselves!) this holiday season. Since…

BookTribNovember 26, 2024

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The Entertainer Who Redefined Late-Night TV and Reshaped American Culture

A much-anticipated biography, Carson the Magnificent — 20 years in the making — has been released this holiday season about the entertainer who redefined late-night television and reshaped American culture. In 2002, Bill Zehme landed one of the most coveted assignments for a magazine writer: an interview with Johnny Carson…

BookTribDecember 3, 2024

Recommended Romance

They Have One Year to Pretend … Or Risk Losing Everything

The best romance novels often work off the dichotomy between the story’s meant-to-be and can’t-possibly-work elements. Kay Cove’s latest novel, Snapshot, delivers beautifully on both, with plot twists and outside characters that seriously threaten a happily-ever-after ending. For added depth, Cove intertwines two love stories, one from a grandmother’s distant…

Anne Eliot FeldmanDecember 4, 2024

Author Spotlight

Tech Expert’s Guide to Boosting Adaptability & Competitive Advantage in Business

“Pivoting is not a dirty word but rather a competitive advantage.” So says Joseph Hanna, author of Pivoting as a Way of Life: Stop Chasing Unicorns and Product-Market Fit — a game-changing guide for entrepreneurs, product managers and innovators who want to thrive in today's fast-paced business environment. Hanna’s book…

BookTribDecember 4, 2024

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AudioFile Selects Best Biography and Memoir Audiobooks of the Year

AudioFile’s 2024 Best Biography & Memoir Audiobooks allow listeners windows onto the lives of others. The performers are perfectly in sync with the text, whether they’re professional narrators or the (rather famous) authors themselves.

AudioFileDecember 4, 2024

Business

Transform Job Loss Into a Launchpad for Success

“A cold-hearted system that doesn’t need you.” Make you feel good? It wasn’t supposed to — yet. A company, writes William Alexandre in his very informative new book So You Lost Your Job: What Next?, “does not have feelings, is never happy or sad, can’t lose or hate anyone, judges…

Jim AlkonDecember 3, 2024

Navigating Ethical Leadership in the Age of AI by Annette Bühler

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Lead with Confidence in the AI Era with this Ethical Toolkit

A company uses an AI system to streamline its hiring process, but the system favors certain demographic groups over others. A hospital employs AI to diagnose patients but might miss rare conditions or produce false positives. A bank uses AI to determine loan eligibility, but the system starts denying loans…

Jim AlkonDecember 2, 2024

Miscellany Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: 13 Must-Read Books for Your Holiday Wish List

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…

Blaine DesantisDecember 4, 2024

The Housekeepers Secret by Sandra Schnakenburg

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A Promise to Late Housekeeper Leads to Unforgettable Search for the Truth

The increasingly popular memoir genre may not be famous for unputdownable books but The Housekeeper’s Secret by Sandra (Krilich) Schnakenburg is certainly one such memoir. The story reads like a fast-paced novel, with an ensemble cast of well-defined characters and a mystery to solve from the start. Per its title,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanDecember 3, 2024

The Resurrectionist A Rae Dunlap Interview

Fiction

Science, Desire — and Bodies — in 19th Century Edinburgh

To hear my mother tell the story, my decision to abandon my studies at Oxford was enough to disgrace my father into an early grave. Regardless of his habits — his drinking, his gambling, his debts — in her mind, it was my own act of reckless rebellion that finally…

Neil NyrenNovember 29, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Lives and Truths Laid Bare in Short Story Collection

“People are people. They love, they hate, they soar, they pine, they elate, they grieve — and on occasion, they kill.” Award-winning author Bill VanPatten tends to capture all those acts and emotions in his characters, drawing heavily on gay themes and Latino heritage in and around the small, fictitious…

Jim AlkonDecember 3, 2024

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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month With 14 New Releases

This month is National Native American Heritage Month. It’s a time to celebrate and recognize the rich heritage, customs, folklore, languages, stories, issues faced by and contributions of Indigenous people in Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and affiliated Island communities. Alongside the recognition of Indigenous peoples’ contributions and legacy,…

Megan BeauregardNovember 26, 2024

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Say “What?” When Readers’ Responses Amaze and Intrigue Authors

Long before a novel lands on shelves — or in online shopping carts — it’s a bone the author’s imagination picks with her as she’s walking the dog, doing laundry, or stuck in the Lincoln Tunnel at rush hour. Next comes the outline she writes, tosses, and replaces; the drafts…

Lisa Williamson RosenbergNovember 25, 2024

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New Lit Picks Free Digital Book Sampler, Book Lovers’ Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide, Goodreads Choice Awards Predictions, and More!

Unlock the Season’s Best Reads with BookTrib’s Lit Picks Discover the must-read books of the season with BookTrib Lit Picks Holiday/Winter 2024 — a free ebook packed with first chapters from over 50 buzzworthy titles, including works by Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Sara Shepard. Whether you love thrillers, romance,…

BookTribNovember 27, 2024