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7 Books That Change How We View the World

Some books amuse us while others teach us something new, but few change our perception. There are many perspectives we have on life (and the world in general) that are damaging to us, or others around us. These books address changing some of those perspectives.

BookTribSeptember 3, 2025

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Literary Matchmaking: Books about the Power of Booksellers

Some years ago, an organization of writers to which I belonged hired a consultant to discover what it was that convinced people to buy a book. For this, they paid, I can divulge without telling any secrets, $25,000. When they told me about it, I thought for a second and…

Hank Phillippi RyanAugust 19, 2025

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Staff Picks for Literary Body Swaps in the Spirit of “Freakier Friday”

Wish you could switch places with a fictional character? Well, you're not alone! It's a dream readers fantasize about across the globe, and so we at BookTrib decided to tackle the question: which fictional character would we jump at the chance to swap bodies with using some Freaky Friday magic?…

BookTribAugust 15, 2025

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Why Representation Matters, and It Isn’t About The Cliches

One of the most significant shifts in the post-pandemic publishing environment was a push for more cultural representation fueled by the growing influence of social media voices navigating reader selection. Popular accounts on TikTok and Instagram that focused on book recommendations were often hosted by people representing a diverse range…

C. I. JerezAugust 7, 2025

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Sizzling Thrillers and Chilling Reads to Last All Month Long

Things are starting to heat up with some of the summer's most thrilling reads — from tropical mystery romps and gritty crime noir to timely true crime and prophetic sci-fi, there's plenty for everyone to enjoy.

Jon LandJuly 30, 2025

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10 Novels of Women Surviving Against All Odds

This month, WFWA celebrates fiction that highlights women’s strength and resilience: stories of women surviving — and thriving — when the cards are stacked against them.

Women's Fiction Writers AssociationSeptember 24, 2025

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7 Locomotive Murder Mysteries

I once took a train from Boston to Chicago. Twenty-three hours. Twenty-three hours! I had my own little sleeping compartment, which I had envisioned as opulent and chic and very North by Northwest. And, for about four hours, the whole thing was fabulous. Cozy, glamorous, speedy and super fun. My imagination…

Hank Phillippi RyanSeptember 22, 2025

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The Chill Quill: Books to Haunt You This Spooky Season

As summer slips into shadow, spooky season kicks off with 13 brand new titles that delve into haunted homes, cursed families, buried secrets and parasitic hunger. Whether you’re drawn to the sun-scorched deserts of trauma recovery, the bloodstained walls of a childhood home or the cultish corners of a doomed…

Lindy RyanSeptember 16, 2025

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8 Witchy Series That Will Enchant (and Haunt) You This Spooky Season

From ancient curses to forbidden desire, witches have long captured our imagination, embodying power and the allure of the unknown. From secret covens and forbidden magic to ancient prophecies and supernatural battles, stories about witches transport us to worlds where the stakes are high and the line between hero and…

Katie BloomerSeptember 12, 2025

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R.F. Kuang Fans Will Fall for These 6 Dark Academia Fantasies

The calendar’s turned over another page, school is back in session and orange-and-black decorations are already cluttering store shelves. While the weather might still be hovering around summertime temps, readers are already turning to the cooler season — brewing steaming mugs of loose-leaf tea, curling up in a well-cushioned reading…

Cameron KimballSeptember 4, 2025

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Who Doesn’t Love a Good Cry? Books That Brought Our Staff to Tears

It's no secret that we find a certain level of catharsis in crying over books, movies and other forms of media. I mean, who hasn't gone on a sad movie binge or rocked out to the most depressing playlist ever after a tough loss? We cry, we feel, we (eventually)…

BookTribSeptember 9, 2025

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Cli-Fi Novels with Rich People Building In Inadvisable Places, Inadvisably

SALVAGIA, my debut sci-fi mystery, is set along the future flooded Florida coast. Mean season is twice as long and twice as strong, and Miami is long abandoned. Despite this, lots of money is about to come in to build it all up again and make most of the same…

Tim ChawagaSeptember 3, 2025

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Curl Up With September’s Best Audiobooks

With cozy sweater-weather fast approaching, our friends at AudioFile Magazine have assembled the best audiobooks of the season. So grab a comfy blanket, some hot cocoa and a set of headphones, and settle in for these stellar reads!

AudioFileSeptember 5, 2025

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Long Overdue: Books about Libraries and Librarians

I grew up in really rural Indiana, so rural that you couldn't see another house from our house, and we were so isolated my sister and I used to ride our ponies to the local library. We'd fill up our saddlebags with books, then read up in the hayloft of…

Hank Phillippi RyanSeptember 2, 2025

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Romances to Celebrate the Return of Women in Professional Baseball

Anyone who has ever enjoyed the film classic A League of Our Own has heard of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Started during World War II to keep professional baseball alive, the league flourished from 1943 to 1954. Seventy years later, we are about to witness a rebirth. Some…

JeriAnn GellerAugust 25, 2025

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Independence Day Shelfies from Written Words Bookstore: Honoring our roots

When you're firing up the barbecue on Saturday, dismissing everyone's advice and recommendations because you are the grill master, you should take some time to consider. The meat needs proper time to cook, anyway. Perhaps you could cast a reflective eye on the holiday in question, and wonder about this country's…

Ben S. DutkaJuly 3, 2015

Book Recommendations

7 Books That Change How We View the World

Literary Matchmaking: Books about the Power of Booksellers

Staff Picks for Literary Body Swaps in the Spirit of “Freakier Friday”

Why Representation Matters, and It Isn’t About The Cliches

Sizzling Thrillers and Chilling Reads to Last All Month Long

10 Novels of Women Surviving Against All Odds

7 Locomotive Murder Mysteries

The Chill Quill: Books to Haunt You This Spooky Season

8 Witchy Series That Will Enchant (and Haunt) You This Spooky Season

R.F. Kuang Fans Will Fall for These 6 Dark Academia Fantasies

Who Doesn’t Love a Good Cry? Books That Brought Our Staff to Tears

Cli-Fi Novels with Rich People Building In Inadvisable Places, Inadvisably

Curl Up With September’s Best Audiobooks

Long Overdue: Books about Libraries and Librarians

Romances to Celebrate the Return of Women in Professional Baseball

Independence Day Shelfies from Written Words Bookstore: Honoring our roots

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