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Defending the Right to Read What We Want

Book banning has been a part of American culture for a long time. Back in 1851, for instance, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was banned and even burned for depicting the horrors of slavery. But if it seems like book banning has gotten worse recently, you aren’t imagining that.…

Laura Anne BirdOctober 6, 2025

Book Club Network Fiction

“The Reading List” Is Book Therapy for Lovers of Literature

"A quietly beautiful novel about the magic of books and the joy of human connection.” —Newsweek —∞— "A lovely story about how a love of reading can transport us to other worlds and also bring us together.” —Toronto Star —∞— Sara Nisha Adams’ debut The Reading List (William Morrow) is…

Linda HitchcockAugust 3, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: A Thousand-Mile Journey with China’s Magical Spirits

After closing the cover of Janie Chang’s new release, The Library of Legends (William Morrow), I was filled with a sense of wonder that sent me to my trusty Merriam-Webster dictionary for a way to describe what I’d just witnessed. A legend is a story that comes down to us…

Kathryn CraftApril 30, 2020

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

When One Kid’s Dream of Being a Superhero Actually Comes True

Every comic book-obsessed kid fantasizes about becoming a superhero: they hope they’ll be wealthy enough to light up their own bat signal or smart enough to construct their own iron suit. They hope the spider that bit them while playing outdoors was radioactive. Sure, the superpowers are the initial draw,…

BookTribMay 13, 2022

Listicles Miscellany

12 Extraordinary Stories Set in Libraries

“The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” — Albert Einstein Libraries are a crucial part of society — preserving history, promoting literacy, and providing an abundance of free resources and programs to communities. But perhaps even more than that, they provide essential nourishment…

Katie BloomerApril 11, 2024

Fiction

Author Camille Di Maio is Haunted by Matthew Sullivan’s ‘Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore’

What is your first scary memory? For me, it was the horrible murder of a family by the hands of a stranger that took place in my hometown of Aurora, Colorado. I won’t go into the details – it would be a spoiler alert. But like me, author Matthew Sullivan…

Camille Di MaioJuly 6, 2017

Fiction Listicles

Check Out These 9 “Library Books” for National Library Week

Walking into a library is like walking into an opium den. The exhilarating scent of paper and binding — whether musty with age or fruit-sweet and fresh off the press — is a perfume like no other. Endorphins flood the brain. Ahhhhh ... books! Here we can wander among the…

BookTribApril 5, 2022

Fiction Listicles

Korelitz’s Latest Thriller, “The Sequel,” Prompts Debate of 14 Best Books About Books

Maybe I’m prejudiced. But isn’t that the right of anyone evaluating books? It’s about what you like. Or don’t. In the case of author Jean Hanff Korelitz, I’m indeed prejudiced. That’s because The Plot, her ingenious thriller in which a bestselling book becomes a matter of life or death, is…

Jim AlkonSeptember 24, 2024

ThrillerFest 2017 Shaun Harris THE HEMINGWAY THIEF

Thrillers

#ThrillerFest2017 Debut Author Shaun Harris Steals Our Attention with ‘The Hemingway Thief’

Check out today's featured ThrillerFest 2017 debut author Shaun Harris and his new thriller, The Hemingway Thief! See what he has to say about how he'd kill off his beloved hero, Henry "Coop" Cooper! BookTrib: If you were on death row, what would be your last read? Why? Shaun Harris:…

BookTribJune 23, 2017

Miscellany Pop Culture

Love Mysteries? Love Books? Here’s a Collection For You

If you like mysteries and you like books, there’s a collection of stories you should know about. Bibliomysteries: Volume Two, edited by Otto Penzler and to be published in August by Pegasus, is just what the title implies: a collection of crime stories about rare books, bookshops, libraries, manuscripts, magical books,…

BookTribAugust 1, 2018

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Book-to-Screen on Trials of Bookshop Ownership

If you have read The Bookshop (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Penelope Fitzgerald, you will want to see the movie to answer some questions: How can a movie portray a book’s delicately described inner states? How can subtle emotions and flitting feelings be shown on the screen? And if you have seen…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 14, 2018

Fiction

Step Inside “The Lost and Found Bookshop” Where Joy Never Yields to Struggle

Natalie Harper grew up around books: “When she was very small, her mother used to tell her that books were alive in a special way. Between the covers, characters were living their lives, enacting their dramas, falling in and out of love, finding trouble, working out their problems. Even sitting…

Chelsea CicconeJuly 7, 2020

Book Club Network Fiction

“Writers & Lovers:” Food for the Creative Spirit and Dreamers

I loved her 2014 release Euphoria and author Lily King has written another great one, although quite different, Writers & Lovers (Grove Press). We follow Casey Peabody, a writer, on a journey to find herself. “I am 31, and $73,000 in debt. I’ve moved 11 times, had 17 jobs and…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 7, 2020

Fiction

BookTrib Review: “Summer Hours at the Robbers Library” Is Worth Checking Out

Libraries are here to stay. Long after your corner coffeehouse has been turned into a drug store, your local library will be there to embrace you with an ever-changing community of avid readers. Summer Hours at the Robbers Library (Harper Perennial) by veteran author and journalist Sue Halpern offers an introspective and poignant look…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaFebruary 28, 2018

Fiction Listicles

Five Fantastic Books About Books for the Ultimate Bibliophile

As readers, we love to lose ourselves between the pages of a good book, and what’s more delicious than a book about books? If you love a good story about writers, here are five women’s fiction titles to pull off the shelf:

Women's Fiction Writers AssociationJuly 22, 2020

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

Inside the Writing Brain: 8 Novels About Writing Novels

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/meta-fiction-feat..jpg The question came to me in my admiration of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood: how does someone write novelistic nonfiction when many of the main characters are dead? How can you write a true-crime novel if you don’t know the truth? And how can you ever find it? I’ll…

Hank Phillippi RyanOctober 22, 2020

Defending the Right to Read What We Want

“The Reading List” Is Book Therapy for Lovers of Literature

Tall Poppy Review: A Thousand-Mile Journey with China’s Magical Spirits

When One Kid’s Dream of Being a Superhero Actually Comes True

12 Extraordinary Stories Set in Libraries

Author Camille Di Maio is Haunted by Matthew Sullivan’s ‘Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore’

Check Out These 9 “Library Books” for National Library Week

Korelitz’s Latest Thriller, “The Sequel,” Prompts Debate of 14 Best Books About Books

#ThrillerFest2017 Debut Author Shaun Harris Steals Our Attention with ‘The Hemingway Thief’

Love Mysteries? Love Books? Here’s a Collection For You

Book-to-Screen on Trials of Bookshop Ownership

Step Inside “The Lost and Found Bookshop” Where Joy Never Yields to Struggle

“Writers & Lovers:” Food for the Creative Spirit and Dreamers

BookTrib Review: “Summer Hours at the Robbers Library” Is Worth Checking Out

Five Fantastic Books About Books for the Ultimate Bibliophile

Inside the Writing Brain: 8 Novels About Writing Novels

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