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This Hidden Gem Is More Than Just a Stalker Story

Dear Readers, What first caught my attention about the thriller Dawn Before Darkness wasn't the stalking plot. It was the guardianship plot. Let me explain. Psychological thrillers are full of dangerous exes, but far fewer ask a more unsettling question: what happens when someone uses the legal system itself as…

Meryl L. MossJune 13, 2026

Miscellany Potpourri

Sun, Sand and Secrets: The Perfect Beach Read

Dear Readers, I’m heading to the beach this weekend, and I already know what’s going in my beach bag: Palm Beach Confidential, Susannah Marren’s latest Palm Beach novel. At first glance, it has everything I want in a beach read: glamorous settings, characters in conflict, a secret romance and a…

Meryl L. MossJune 5, 2026

Miscellany Potpourri

A Forgotten Surrealist Finally Comes Into Focus

Dear Readers, This week, we turn our attention not just to a book that’s a hidden gem, but to a book about a forgotten artist of the 20th-century art world. Too often, art history remembers women by proximity: wife, lover, model. Jacqueline Lamba, if remembered at all, is often recalled…

Meryl L. MossMay 30, 2026

Listicles Popular Potpourri

A Bouquet of 10 Indie Discoveries for May

This May, we’re celebrating the flourishing creativity of indie authors. The Indie Discovery List is back with a fresh crop of books ready to surprise, unsettle, move and entertain. These 10 indie titles branch out in every direction — from literary fiction to art-inspired coming-of-age, forbidden love, AI speculation, Victorian…

BookTribMay 19, 2026

Miscellany Potpourri

Book Your Trip to These Storied Destinations

Dearest Curious Reader, This week, we reflected on how reading feels like being transported to another destination, whether to a real-life location or to another place and time. After all, books do more than make us think and feel new things. They help us go places outside of our ordinary…

Meryl L. MossMay 16, 2026

Listicles Popular Potpourri

10 Hidden Indie Gems for Indie Bookstore Day

Independent Bookstore Day is this weekend! In case you aren't familiar, it's an annual event that falls on the last Saturday in April — a national one-day party celebrating indie bookstores across the country, both online and in-store. This year, we’re thinking beyond bookstores to the whole "indieverse" of publishing…

BookTribApril 24, 2026

Miscellany Potpourri

Our Exclusive Met Gala “Lookbook”

My Art-Loving Beauty-Seeking Readers, It was a big week for fashion as well as publishing: the Met Gala turned the red carpet into a spectacle with its “Fashion Is Art” dress code, and Pulitzer Prize winners were announced along with major new releases, so our team did the only reasonable…

Meryl L. MossMay 8, 2026

Miscellany Potpourri

Real Intelligence

The 1976 album titled Boston by the band with the same name resonated with me; the lyrics took me to a place my narrow life lacked; the music energized my young soul. I was hooked; I still am. In my pre-teen days, my parents’ record player was the only way…

Michael WestMay 8, 2026

Miscellany Popular Potpourri

What Inspired “The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential to American Democracy (And What We Can Learn from Them)”

As people look for guidance and strategy while democracy is eroding, look no further than the Black women political organizers, journalists, movement leaders and elected officials I feature in my book, whom I call "The Instigators." Oftentimes much is said about the ability of women to change the world, so…

Atima OmaraMay 5, 2026

Miscellany Popular Potpourri

Privileged Lives, Powerful Fiction

Dear Readers, I am continually amazed at the writers we meet who work tirelessly in obscurity yet produce such excellent work. This week, I’d like to introduce you to one such author. South African writer Stanislas M. Yassukovich is remarkable not because of the world he writes about, but also…

Meryl L. MossMay 2, 2026

Fiction Miscellany Potpourri

Why a Hollywood Screenwriter Set His Debut Novel in a Fictional Southeast Asian Country

I have always believed that the most cherished travel memories are the little ones that often come by accident. The simple meal of bread, cheese and ham, bought from three different stores, that you eat on a bench beside a canal in Venice because the fancy restaurant you had a…

Gregory PoirierApril 28, 2026

Miscellany Potpourri

The Cruelty of False Hope Inspired “Ashes of the Republic”

When I was seven or eight, my parents left me with a neighbor so they could attend a healing Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ozone Park, Queens — just a few blocks from where we lived. The sitter explained that if it worked — if the Lord…

James ChestertonApril 28, 2026

Miscellany Popular Potpourri

Hot Trends and Reading Recs from Indie Bookstores

Dear Readers, BookTrib is a huge fan of indie bookstores — always has been. In Connecticut, our team loves to visit Barrett Books and RJ Julia. My favorites are The Corner Bookstore in NYC and, of course, the legendary Strand. Whenever I’m in a new city or country, I make…

Meryl L. MossApril 25, 2026

Miscellany Popular Potpourri

Why Readers Enjoy Stories They Shouldn’t

Why do we keep reading when we know we shouldn’t? A character crosses a line early. Not a small one. Something that should shut the book in our hands. But it doesn’t. We keep going. That reaction — staying instead of turning away — isn’t accidental. It’s what pulls readers…

Dan UseltonApril 17, 2026

Miscellany Popular Potpourri

Book News: Anne Hathaway in Yesteryear, Vertical Storytelling, Books You Can’t Look Away From & More

Dear Readers, The BookTrib Brief is back this week with the latest book news. We’re dishing out buzzy bookishness, including tidbits about the new book on everyone’s lips, Yesteryear, recently scooped up by Anne Hathaway, and plenty of other juicy stories you will love. Happy reading! Meryl Moss, Publisher, BookTrib Win This Juicy, Action-Filled…

Meryl L. MossApril 18, 2026

Miscellany Popular Potpourri

Written in the Stars With Lillian Parrotta: Aries Edition

Aries season is upon us — and with it, an invitation to examine what it means to burn boldly in a world that would rather you didn't. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. Ruled by Mars, it carries the energy of someone who was born knowing their worth…

Lillian ParrottaApril 14, 2026

A Bouquet of 10 Indie Discoveries for May

10 Hidden Indie Gems for Indie Bookstore Day

Real Intelligence

Why a Hollywood Screenwriter Set His Debut Novel in a Fictional Southeast Asian Country

The Cruelty of False Hope Inspired “Ashes of the Republic”

Why Readers Enjoy Stories They Shouldn’t

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