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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

Podcasts

Writers, Ink Podcast: Sara DiVello Explains How to Properly Promote on Social Media

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…

Writers, InkAugust 21, 2023

Thrillers

“Follow Me” Offers Readers Their Daily Dose of Paranoia

In Follow Me (Gallery Books) by Kathleen Barber, a stalker and social media influencer play an unsettling game of cat and mouse that tackles deeper themes of identity, image and motives. Audrey Miller has it all: an exciting new opportunity to work her dream job as a social media manager…

Emily WolfeFebruary 24, 2020

Nonfiction

‘The Eves of Our Destruction’: Can Citizens be Ignorant and Free at the Same Time?

As authors, we tend to specialize in writing fiction or nonfiction. A few writers are able to successfully write both entertaining fiction and erudite nonfiction but in a terrible irony, increasingly, our society seems to be so easily manipulated in blurring the distinction. In 1816 in a letter to John…

Roy BerelowitzNovember 3, 2017

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Fact and Fiction Blur Together as a Woman’s Reality Show Obsession Grows in “Stalker Stalked”

Stalker Stalked (Down & Out Books / All Due Respect) is a clever, fast-paced thriller with a pulp-fiction feel that I could not put down. Author Lee Matthew Goldberg is also a screen and television writer, and it shows. Just like a movie, he starts the book with a BAM! …

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitSeptember 17, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Social Media and Other Anxieties in “The Bright Side of Going Dark”

On the surface, Kelly Harms’s new release, The Bright Side of Going Dark (Lake Union), appears to be about the dilemma that social media poses for most of us: we shouldn’t like it as much as we do, and we don’t, not really, except all the time, apparently. We’re hooked, but…

Sonja YoergMay 26, 2020

Book Club Network Miscellany

Reese Witherspoon’s and Other Celebrity Book Clubs: Read Along with Your Favorite Stars

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. Admit it. You get a little excited every time you see a celebrity caught by the paparazzi with a book in their hand. You have one of those moments where you realize that even though they are staggeringly beautiful and stunningly successful and talented,…

BookishSeptember 20, 2017

Fiction

Tall Poppies Review: Past and Present Become Chaos in Amy Impellizzeri’s “The Truth About Thea”

At BookTrib, we are constantly searching for the best ways to connect readers with writers, opening their eyes and worlds to fresh ideas! This is how we came across a wonderful group known as the Tall Poppies, who are not only avid readers, but extremely talented writers as well! This…

Amy NathanOctober 19, 2017

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