What the Trees Remember by Abigail Cutter is a powerful piece of historical fiction. The novel centers on Dora Minor, a ninety-three-year-old woman riding out the catastrophic 1969 flood caused by Hurricane Camille alone in her mountain home in Nelson County, Virginia, with only her two dogs for company. As…
BookTribJuly 23, 2026
Innton Tagger grabbed a beloved classic and completely remixed it in his own voice to create My Hip-Hop Wiz. This is a culturally rich reinvention of The Wizard of Oz that trades yellow brick roads for hustle, heart and hip-hop. From the opening pages, the book announces exactly what it…
BookTribJuly 13, 2026
There are thrillers that ask you to race through the pages, adrenaline pumping through your veins, and there are thrillers that invite you to look twice at every clue, every conversation and every seemingly insignificant detail because it all matters. Day of Wrath by Otho Eskin belongs primarily in the…
BookTribJuly 14, 2026
Alex Grass's Infernal Tramps is a collection of seventeen stories. It is a relentless, gleefully unhinged tour through body horror, cosmic dread, and the menace of everyday consumer culture. The opener, "The Tezcat Apparatus," is a perfect thesis statement for the book. What begins as a folksy exchange between a…
BookTribJuly 24, 2026
Echoes of the Gene, the second installment in John H. Thomas's Chronos Files series, is a tightly wound techno-conspiracy thriller that expands its predecessor's world but never loses pace. Picking up the fallout from The Terminal Gene, this book plunges back into a shadow war between the Chronos organization, the…
BookTribJuly 17, 2026
Daniel Welynn's BlackFyre: Shattered Shards is a fantasy novel that is hard to put down.
BookTribJune 22, 2026
Grief does not always behave like an ending. Sometimes it acts more like a ride that refuses to stop: the same drops and turns, the same sickening return to the place where everything irrevocably changed. In the latest entry to his “Life and Living” series, Roller Coasters: The Life Kind,…
BookTribJuly 6, 2026
In Palm Beach, a family can look flawless from the outside and still be coming apart behind the hedges. The trick is knowing how to smile through it, where to sit, what to wear and which rumors to pretend not to hear. Lucinda Barrows has spent decades perfecting that art.…
BookTribJune 2, 2026
“Eat better” may be the most common advice for good health — but it’s also among the least useful. That’s because most of us don’t know what “better” actually looks like on a plate. In Absolute Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Nutrition & Nutrient-Dense Foods and Meals for Lifelong Health,…
BookTribJuly 8, 2026
The story in Charles Bruckerhoff’s PLOWMAN: Harvest of Grain and Innocence (2nd edition) begins, in a sense, when a dusty wooden first-aid case crashes down from an attic shelf. It is not medicine inside, but memory: loose pages, wartime journals, military records and family history waiting for someone young enough…
BookTribJune 24, 2026
F. N. Knight's The First Cycle is an ambitious, richly imagined science-fantasy epic that announces the arrival of a writer with a bold vision.
BookTribJune 2, 2026
Jonathan Spitz set out to write the book he wished he'd had when he first went plant-based, and the result is an impressive achievement: a rigorously documented history of nutritional science that manages to be both scholarly and readable by people without any scientific background.
BookTribJuly 1, 2026
Inder Verma's The Secret of Alicanto is set against a sweep of locations including the sun-drenched streets of West Palm Beach, the cobblestoned grandeur of Lisbon and Porto and the leafy calm of Belmont, Massachusetts.
BookTribJune 29, 2026
The Realm of Ruin by Carson Zan Hughes begins as a classic exile-and-survival fantasy and gradually unfolds into a story about identity, belonging, trauma and what it means to rebuild a life after everything has been stripped away.
BookTribJune 26, 2026
Wayne Williams' Grab Another Gear is a motivating guide to living with intention rather than drifting through life on autopilot.
BookTribMay 28, 2026