Chris Smith’s My Mountains is a powerful memoir about family, faith, and resilience. Through breathtaking highs and heartbreaking lows, it reveals the strength of love and the quiet beauty of healing in the wake of loss.
BookTribNovember 6, 2025
The remarkable blend of memoir and fiction in this week's new books is sure to enthrall, inspire, and move. From John Irving's epic historical drama Queen Esther to Oyinkan Braithwaite's compelling examination of familial curses in Cursed Daughters, readers might lose themselves in vividly imagined settings. While Heather Gudenkauf creates…
BookTribNovember 3, 2025
If you’ve ever found yourself contemplating how much of what you believe comes from the world around you vs. how much comes from within yourself, Jane Gallagher’s Reflections on Life’s Illusions: A Memoir of Culture and Consciousness will become your next deep dive. A Memoir that Thinks Beyond Memory Gallagher’s…
BookTribOctober 31, 2025
Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice — co-authored with journalist Amy Wallace — is both a testimony and a warning. It’s unflinching, intimate, relentless, forcing readers to confront not only the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew and others in…
BookTribOctober 24, 2025
Some books don’t just tell a story; they hold up a mirror, reminding readers that reinvention is often gritty, uncertain and deeply human. For anyone who’s ever faced a season of unraveling — whether from loss, burnout, addiction or quiet self-doubt — transformational memoirs offer something both intimate and universal.…
Katie BloomerOctober 22, 2025
I’d been taking notes towards the idea of writing a book titled Gina School since I attended an anniversary party in 2019. Seated on one side next to the successful adult daughter of the couple whom we were gathered to celebrate, and flanked on the other side by her boyfriend,…
Gina BarrecaOctober 16, 2025
Marianna Marlowe’s Portrait of a Feminist isn’t your typical feminist memoir. It doesn’t shout its message or come armed with statistics and slogans. Instead, it invites you into the quiet, powerful moments that shaped one woman’s identity across years, continents and cultures. Told in a series of beautifully written personal essays that…
Kelsey HallOctober 15, 2025
Part memoir, part field guide, The Blueprint of Becoming offers a candid recovery story, Scripture-driven insights, and step-by-step practices—journaling prompts, prayers, and goal-setting—to help readers realign their lives with God’s design and take the next faithful step.
BookTribOctober 14, 2025
All the Way to the River is a glorious, raw memoir that folds you into Elizabeth Gilbert’s journey of love, addiction, recovery and death. In this book, Gilbert takes us inside her relationship with Reyya Elias, her best friend, lover and wife. We travel with her all the way to…
LA BourgeoisOctober 8, 2025
Jason Ferguson’s electrifying memoir Nobody’s Legend chronicles a journey from rock bottom to redemption. This raw, motivational story of identity, addiction, and perseverance doubles as a roadmap for anyone ready to rewrite their own life story and take back their future.
BookTribOctober 7, 2025
Wendy B. Correa’s new memoir My Pretty Baby: Seeking Truth and Finding Healing, details a fascinating life defined by resilience and accomplishment in the face of childhood trauma and a dysfunctional family environment. As Correa deftly shows in this writing debut, life is not so much about what happens to…
Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 22, 2025
Moving and music weave twin threads of hope and self-discovery in John Beyer’s poignant and uplifting memoir of addiction and recovery, Live a Little Better. There’s something deeply courageous about laying bare the pain and trauma of your life’s mistakes, and Beyer doesn’t flinch from describing the fissures in his…
BookTribSeptember 11, 2025
Brenda Coffee’s Maya Blue recounts a fairytale marriage turned nightmare in a memoir that races along like a thriller. From the infamous “Spy House” in Texas to a terrifying jungle abduction, Coffee’s real-life journey of survival and self-discovery will leave readers breathless and inspired.
BookTribAugust 29, 2025
From the roar of an F-15 slicing the sky at supersonic speed to the hushed stillness of a fog-covered runway, few lives have been lived at such altitude and with such depth as the one captured in High Flight In this Q&A, author Richard Hess takes us beyond the cockpit…
BookTribAugust 28, 2025
As a reader of TART, you may have come for the promise of unabashed shagging and haute cuisine, but stay for the writing, which is crisp and unapologetic, a hard dive into an excess of just about everything. “I’m a greedy person at my core,” our protagonist writes right up…
Sherri DaleyAugust 8, 2025
Some books whisper, while others hit like lightning … then there are the rare ones that do both. Those books tend to shift something deep inside you with their quiet insistence on truth. The following 7 books are shaped by memory and sharpened by resistance. They dig deep and unearth…
Monique SnymanAugust 4, 2025