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Priyanka Mattoo’s “How to Be Less Useful” Celebrates the Art of Doing Less

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by life’s expectations and wish to find more joy in life, How to Be Less Useful should be on your bookshelf. Author of Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones, Priyanka Mattoo, delivers a humorous, nonfiction self-help/memoir about reducing the need to be more efficient and useful all…

Natalia KavaleNovember 5, 2026

Listicles Nonfiction

12 Books about Second-Wave Feminism

Writing my third novel, Three Cousins, which features three young women coming of age in the 1970s, I was carried back to the works that brought second-wave feminism into conversations, relationships and lives at the time. These were books that impacted us not only intellectually, but also emotionally and viscerally.…

Jessica LevineApril 16, 2025

Listicles Nonfiction

The Best, Funniest Books to Read if You’re Reinventing Yourself in Midlife

When I fantasized about retirement, I imagined I’d do pushups every morning, make pasta from scratch, maybe even Marie Kondo my closets, if I had time between all the volunteering and reading. What did I actually do? I sat on my couch, binge-watched 90 Day Fiancé, and asked myself, “Retirement?…

Lucie FrostOctober 8, 2025

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“I Eat the Stars”: How Collapse Can Bring Us Closer

In her newest book, I Eat the Stars, Sarah Wilson aims to help us find a light through all of the darkness.

Riley HarkerJune 24, 2026

Listicles Nonfiction

11 Memoirs About Overcoming Depression & Other Stories of Hope

Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the United States, with an average of 132 suicides per day and over 1.6 million attempts per year. Falling within the middle of September (dubbed National Suicide Prevention Month by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention) September 10 marks the beginning…

BookTribSeptember 14, 2023

Listicles Nonfiction Popular

6 Books About the Lives of Psychologists Who Shaped the Way We Understand Ourselves

Some psychologists spend their lives writing polite articles about human behavior. Others walk straight into the storm and pull truths out of the chaos. The books below follow the second group, the thinkers who argued, obsessed, unravelled and rebuilt everything we thought we knew about the mind. Their lives were…

Monique SnymanNovember 18, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

When Helping a Dog Takes More Than a Good Heart

Seeing a dog suffer, most of us would want to do something immediately. Remove the animal, get it somewhere safe, figure out the rest later. But what if intervening means violating an owner’s rights? What if acting too quickly undermines the very case that could protect the dog longer term?…

BookTribNovember 4, 2026

Nonfiction

The Road to Recovery Is Never Straight in Elizabeth Lopez’s “The Missing Road”

On August 18, 2000, two weeks before her seventeenth birthday, Elizabeth Lopez danced at a punk rock show on Long Island, hugged her friends goodbye, and crossed the road toward her mother’s waiting car. Moments later, a drunk driver struck her. She woke weeks later from a coma with a…

BookTribOctober 27, 2026

Nonfiction

Follow Three Trailblazing Women’s Paths Through the American Wilderness

Heather Hansman’s engaging new work of nonfiction is Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America’s Love for the Wild. The women were Georgie White, Anne LaBastille and Dolores LaChapelle, who, despite never meeting and their quite dissimilar temperaments, were each ferociously independent and shared a passion for…

Linda HitchcockOctober 22, 2026

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5 Books Exploring the Future of Family and Parenthood

Family life is changing, and so are the ways we think about having and raising children. From declining birth rates and the pressures of modern parenting to the influence of technology and the importance of community, today's families face challenges that previous generations could hardly have imagined. These five thought-provoking…

BookTribOctober 21, 2026

Nonfiction Recommended

From Fire Drills to Field Trips: Understanding the Neurodivergent School Experience

A fire alarm interrupts a lesson. Students head outside, teachers call for silence, and the school practices its emergency procedures. For Jeffrey P. Snyder, the noise and sudden disruption could overwhelm him long after the drill ended. In The Neurodivergent Owl Presents: Alarms, Assemblies and Accommodations: Inside the Neurodivergent Classroom,…

BookTribOctober 15, 2026

Nonfiction Recommended

Why Are We Having Fewer Children? This Intriguing Theory May Surprise You

Many people imagine a future with children, only to end up with a smaller family than they hoped for — or no children at all. Money, relationships, health and timing can each play a part. But why is this gap between hope and reality appearing across so many societies? In…

BookTribOctober 13, 2026

Nonfiction

Behind the Famous Paintings, Three Girls’ Lives Shatter Amid War

The Renoir Girls, subtitled A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal, is an impeccably researched, sweeping, densely rich chronicle spanning the decadent Belle Époque, modern industrial times and WWII as experienced by the prominent and immensely wealthy Cahen d’Anvers family. Bestselling author and journalist Catherine Ostler examines the impact…

Linda HitchcockOctober 9, 2026

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Turning Addiction Recovery into a Blueprint for Christian Living

For Matthew Linehan, escaping addiction was not the end of the story. It was the beginning of learning how to live. In Free Indeed: The 7 Keys to Unlock Your Freedom, he recounts his journey from three decades of alcohol and drug addiction to a life rooted in Christian faith.…

BookTribSeptember 17, 2026

Nonfiction Recommended

Finding Light in the Shadows of Memory

From the Cyclops Cave is a memoir written by Don Schofield where an American poet, long settled in Greece, rents a house on the island of Kýthnos that the locals call "the Cyclops Cave." Alone there for three summers and two Easters in '92, '93 and '94, gazing out at…

BookTribSeptember 14, 2026

Nonfiction

The Man Who Made the Beatles

Mr. Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of the Beatles is the brainchild of columnist Philip Norman, former rock music critic for The Times and noted biographer of numerous acclaimed musicians and other public figures. Lauded for his first book, Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation, published in 1981, his…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 11, 2026

12 Books about Second-Wave Feminism

The Best, Funniest Books to Read if You’re Reinventing Yourself in Midlife

11 Memoirs About Overcoming Depression & Other Stories of Hope

6 Books About the Lives of Psychologists Who Shaped the Way We Understand Ourselves

When Helping a Dog Takes More Than a Good Heart

5 Books Exploring the Future of Family and Parenthood

From Fire Drills to Field Trips: Understanding the Neurodivergent School Experience

Turning Addiction Recovery into a Blueprint for Christian Living

Finding Light in the Shadows of Memory

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