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The Hottest Book of the Summer Is Sold Out. Here’s to Read While You Wait for a Copy

Josh Silver's Fruit Fly is this summer's surprise breakout hit — and given its dark horse status, it's also proving difficult for readers to get their hands on it. With the title backordered at bookstores and the library waitlist growing ever longer, fill the Fruit Fly-shaped space on your bookshelf…

BookTribAugust 26, 2026

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Book Recs Based on the Reason You Haven’t Been Reading Lately

Find yourself the victim of a reading slump? These are the reads to reset your TBR ✨ Peruse our guide on how to stop neglecting your TBR, plus the new + upcoming books we think will do the trick 📚 Anti-reading slump attention-grabbing page turners: Friends and Family by Natalie…

BookTribAugust 18, 2026

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Our Top Reading Recs for Coping With Your Existential Crisis

Sick of the AI slop that’s infiltrated every corner of the internet? Desperate to ditch the corporate rat race? Stressing about the cost of living while billionaires shoot rockets into space? We’ve got book recs for that! If the current state of the world has you spiraling into existentialism, swap…

BookTribAugust 13, 2026

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Feast Your Eyes on the Book Covers Worthy of an Art Museum

From striking summer book releases to fun fall fiction, 2026 book covers are reminding us that sometimes it is okay to judge a book by its cover. These frame-worthy favorites are going to be face-out on the bookshelf this season: Ready to screenshot? Here's the written list, line by line,…

BookTribAugust 6, 2026

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Book Recs to Match the Trending Songs of the Summer

Playing Charli XCX’s new music on repeat? Living for the new Gracie Abrams and Madonna albums? Still not over Ikkimel’s iconic TV performance? Whether you’re looking to embrace the vibes of a coconut water summer or you’re feeling like a daughter from hell, we’ve curated just the books to match…

BookTribJuly 30, 2026

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Anxiously Searching the Internet for Life’s Answers? Here Are the Book Recs to Help

Spiraling into climate anxiety while you check the air quality? Opting out of every AI plugin in your path? Heating all your veggies to a crisp 158°F? 😥 If you’re questioning everything around you these days, these book recs might hold the answers you’ve been searching for 📚 Here's your…

BookTribJuly 24, 2026

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TBR-Worthy Reads to Pair With the Biggest Pop Culture Moments of the Week

Still reeling over the Margaret Qualley + Jack Antonoff split? Missing Erling Haaland’s presence on the World Cup pitch? Eager to find out how the music of Madonna blends with BTS bops? From soccer to stardom, this past week has given us plenty of pop culture plot twists. Here are…

BookTribJuly 14, 2026

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Looksmaxxing? More Like Booksmaxxing: Trending Titles To Enhance Your Reading

Looksmaxxing might be all the rage, but what about booksmaxxing? If you've somehow missed the discourse about this extreme new trend, let us introduce you to looksmaxxing — defined by Wikipedia (yes, it has a Wiki page) as "the process of maximizing one's physical attractiveness." But instead of advice for…

BookTribMay 12, 2026

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Start Your 2026 Spring Reset (Or Don’t) With These Fresh Book Recs

It’s spring: a season of hope, renewal, and… avoidance. Whether you’re confidently embracing your goals or strategically avoiding anything resembling personal growth, you deserve a reward for getting through those seasonal sniffles + surviving another new cycle. Follow these flow charts for book recs that will help you achieve your…

BookTribApril 15, 2026

Miscellany

Need a Spring Break … From Reality? Use These Books to Escape 2026

In desperate need of a vacation? These days, it feels like cortisol is at an all-time high, and no stress relief technique is getting it down. And while vacation season is on the horizon, some of us need a little extra help escaping the weight of our responsibilities sooner rather…

BookTribApril 3, 2026

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Ready to Expand Your Reading Bracket for March?

Prefer your protagonists spiraling and unstable? From tales of possessive, all-consuming desire to frenzies of anger and resentment, there’s a story here for every uncomfortable emotion. Get ready for shocking reads and satisfying moments of catharsis – because there’s freedom in embracing the madness. These books are sure to be…

BookTribMarch 24, 2026

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Writers, Ink Podcast: Mastering social media with Magen Mintchev

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…

BookTribDecember 16, 2025

Fiction

Overnight Celebrities: Flipping Social Media Fame Into Bestsellers

Social media has been the new route to fame and celebrity for nearly a decade. Following the path led by the Kardashians, a bumper crop of internet famous celebrities have also parlayed their newfound popularity into something more. If pink is the new black, then books are the new market for…

BookTribSeptember 21, 2017

Nonfiction

YouTube Star Hannah Hart’s ‘Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded’

With a Youtube show titled My Drunk Kitchen, where social media star Hannah Hart gets drunk and dubiously tries to cook (or bake) things, you would expect her memoir to be lighthearted, comedic, even self-deprecating view of her life - on the contrary, however; Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded is…

BookTribSeptember 19, 2017

Thrillers

Tara Isabella Burton’s Debut and Deadly Relationships

This year, we've seen a lot of books that seem to just raise the bar on what we can expect from literature in terms of mesmerizing plots, spellbinding characters and twists no one ever saw coming. But debut novel Social Creature, with its eye-catching cover that stops you in your tracks may…

BookTribJune 21, 2018

Thrillers

Ten’s Gretchen McNeil: How to Make Serial Killers Fun

Gretchen McNeil is not only an incredibly talented author, she's also a professionally trained opera singer, a natural performer, and one of the nicest people we've ever met. The hit YA author is probably best known for her book Ten, which won numerous awards before being turned into a Lifetime original…

BookTribJuly 12, 2018

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