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Jumpstart Your Year With Samples of 8 Memoir and Nonfiction Books

Searching for a memoir or nonfiction read that will motivate, encourage, and empower your next chapter? If you’re seeking a source of inspiration as you make resolutions, reevaluate your future and embark on a journey of personal transformation, these 8 inspiring memoirs and nonfiction books have just what you need. …

BookTribJanuary 7, 2025

Author Spotlight

“You Only Get One Shot” at Life, Says 9/11 Fire Captain and Cross-Country Cyclist

As Joe Matthews notes in his inspirational story Cycling for a Cause, “Life is not a dress rehearsal. You only get one shot at it, so why not try and make it count.” Matthews made his life count by cycling across the country and raising funds for those affected by…

BookTribJanuary 6, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

9/11 Firefighter Makes a Difference by Cycling Across America

You might be wondering how we can be describing a feel-good story that encompasses the Soviet invasion of Ukraine, 9/11, young burn victims, two knee replacements, a broken clavicle and a mind-bending, treacherous journey across the country. It’s because some people are observers and some people are doers. Joe Matthews,…

Jim AlkonDecember 16, 2024

Audiobooks Listicles Nonfiction

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

The Housekeepers Secret by Sandra Schnakenburg

Nonfiction Recommended

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

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Abuse Survivor’s Story of Hope, Faith and Spiritual Healing

Butterfly Stitches is an inspiring and extremely raw Christian memoir by Michele Evette Vrabel, in which she recounts her harrowing yet inspiring journey from an abusive childhood to healing through her faith in her King Jesus Christ. This book bares the author’s heart and soul, taking readers through some of…

Natalia KavaleNovember 18, 2024

Listicles Nonfiction

Reach New Heights With These 7 Unforgettable Memoirs

It’s called “summit fever” — the compulsion to ascend a mountain or rockface by any means necessary. It’s a phenomenon plenty of climbers have attested to as they’ve ascended “the seven summits,” the highest mountains on each of the continents. But what exactly is it about these monuments of nature…

Cameron KimballNovember 15, 2024

Author Spotlight

Approaching Life as “A Badly Written Play” in Memoir of Mental Illness

“If even one person recognizes themself in my story and feels less alone in the world, less invisible — that, I think, will give me a satisfying sense of closure.” In the riveting Scenes From a Misbegotten Life, Victoria Maiden chronicles her messy and lopsided life, from preadolescence to senior citizen,…

BookTribNovember 15, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Hollywood Screenwriter Flirts with Fame in Stunning Memoir

Nearly 50,000 people work in the U.S. film and television industry. Almost all of them labor in relative anonymity, performing the tasks—creative, technical, mechanical, supervisory, and financial—that make it possible for the movie industry and movie stars to exist. “I have been one of those people for nearly 50 years.”…

Jim AlkonNovember 12, 2024

Miscellany Nonfiction

Profound and Eloquent Artistic Exploration of Life and Family

Still Life with Remorse, written and illustrated by the renowned, multiple award-winning Maira Kalman, may be summed up in three words: profound, eloquent and gorgeous! This is her most personal, intimate and moving depiction of her own and her family’s collective memories, as well as observations on the complicated relationships…

Linda HitchcockNovember 7, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Memoir Seeks to Destigmatize and Explore Nuance of Mental Illness

It’s a hard subject to talk about, especially for someone suffering from it. “Many of us have been labeled or even seen ourselves as freaks, weirdos, oddballs, eccentrics and outcasts. So it’s no surprise that many of us attempt to keep our illness hidden to the extent we can.” That’s…

Jim AlkonOctober 25, 2024

Author Spotlight

Author and Poet Emphasizes Humor and Tenacity in Eye-Opening Disability Memoir

“Gravity,” Mary Keating writes. “One: a fundamental interaction keeping every body down to earth and drawn to each other, counterbalancing the inclination to float away. Two: the prison guard of my paralysis — escaped by full submersion in water, meditation, poetry, or dreams. Also overcome by a shift in perception.”…

BookTribOctober 21, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

A Surprising Eye-Opener on the Fight Against Breast Cancer

The purpose of Juliana Hastings’ book, I’ll Have a Double: What Every Woman Needs to Know About Alcohol and Breast Cancer is to raise awareness and share what she has learned during her own breast cancer journey. While this book is a memoir of Juliana’s experience, it is also a…

Barbara WilkovOctober 16, 2024

Book Club Network Nonfiction

Oprah’s Book Club Picks “From Here to the Great Unknown” by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

Oprah’s Book Club announced the latest selection, From Here to the Great Unknown (Random House) a memoir from Lisa Marie Presley, who tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough. Oprah announced her latest Book Club selection…

BookTribOctober 8, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Authentic Look at Overcoming Addiction to Obtain a New Life

It’s commonplace for people to gravitate to the well-known influencers — celebrities, athletes, political and religious leaders, and other icons in their fields — when looking for voices to follow and messages to embrace. But there is often a stronger sort of influencer — the everyman just like you and…

Jim AlkonSeptember 19, 2024

Listicles Nonfiction

6 Shocking and Inspiring True Stories of Survival

Have you survived the impossible? A freak accident, a near-death experience, a danger, or a diagnosis you didn’t expect to see the other side of? So many people experience the unimaginable and continue to go on living — but not without being forever changed by what they’ve survived. In these…

Megan BeauregardSeptember 10, 2024

Jumpstart Your Year With Samples of 8 Memoir and Nonfiction Books

“You Only Get One Shot” at Life, Says 9/11 Fire Captain and Cross-Country Cyclist

9/11 Firefighter Makes a Difference by Cycling Across America

AudioFile Selects Best Biography and Memoir Audiobooks of the Year

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

Abuse Survivor’s Story of Hope, Faith and Spiritual Healing

Reach New Heights With These 7 Unforgettable Memoirs

Approaching Life as “A Badly Written Play” in Memoir of Mental Illness

Hollywood Screenwriter Flirts with Fame in Stunning Memoir

Memoir Seeks to Destigmatize and Explore Nuance of Mental Illness

Author and Poet Emphasizes Humor and Tenacity in Eye-Opening Disability Memoir

A Surprising Eye-Opener on the Fight Against Breast Cancer

Oprah’s Book Club Picks “From Here to the Great Unknown” by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

Authentic Look at Overcoming Addiction to Obtain a New Life

6 Shocking and Inspiring True Stories of Survival

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