# Rich Books

> The books shaping how we think, lead, and live

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## Sections
- [Fiction](https://richbooksmagazine.com/category/fiction): Novels and storytelling that shape how we see the world
- [Non-Fiction](https://richbooksmagazine.com/category/non-fiction): Ideas, history, and the books that explain our world
- [Business & Leadership](https://richbooksmagazine.com/category/business-leadership): The books behind how we work, build, and lead
- [Memoir & Biography](https://richbooksmagazine.com/category/memoir-biography): Lives worth reading, told first-hand and about
- [Self-Development](https://richbooksmagazine.com/category/self-development): Books on habits, mindset, and getting better
- [Authors & Writers](https://richbooksmagazine.com/category/authors-writers): The people shaping how we think and live
- [Reading Lists](https://richbooksmagazine.com/category/reading-lists): Curated reads, edits, and where to start

## Latest articles
- [Twenty Five, a Lycan Found-Family Fantasy for Mature Teens and Adults Drawn from Author Moshea's Years in Group Homes](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/best-werewolf-books-for-adults): Ten-year-old Jean-Eza's arrival at a group home changes the lives of 24 other boys, who discover their hidden Lycan nature and form a pack. Its author has spent decades studying child psychology, fostering, coaching and tutoring young people.
- [Ana Braunstein Turns Her Award-Winning Short Film This Case and My Life Into a Four-Book Series](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/this-case-and-my-life-book): The screenwriter and actress first told the story of attorney Chris Roberts on screen. The four novels follow him from a Manhattan law firm into marriage, fatherhood and a family home in Connecticut.
- [Anthony Eddolls on His FBI Thriller Series and Where Agent David Stilley Goes Next](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/anthony-eddolls-fbi-thriller-series-interview): The Maui-based crime novelist, who publishes through his own company, Robert Anthony Books, also talks about finding readers as an independent author and the scams aimed at new writers.
- [True Crime Author Maureen Hughes on Spotting a Rehearsed Answer and Staying Safe While Investigating the Mob](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/true-crime-author-maureen-hughes): The former police officer and bodyguard has written about organized crime for 26 years, from a newspaper heiress's ties to Johnny Roselli to a 1956 Cairo case ruled a suicide.
- [Tom LeNoble, Who Joined Facebook at 50, on How to Reinvent Yourself](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/how-to-reinvent-yourself): The former head of customer service at MCI, Walmart.com and Palm now advises founders and executives on changes of direction, and his memoir has won seven book awards, including a 2026 NYC Big Book Award.
- [Thomas LeBrun's Aurora Rift, a Time Travel Book for Outlander Readers, Named an NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/time-travel-books-like-outlander): A bodyguard for more than 40 years to clients including Bill Gates and Elton John, LeBrun sends a martial artist and scientist from Stone Age Norway to Kublai Khan's court in his first science fiction novel.
- [Is SEO Worth It for a Small Business? Michael Hodgdon Says Fix the Service Pages Before Writing More Blog Posts](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/is-seo-worth-it-for-small-business): The Colorado Springs consultant's book, Quickest Path to ROI SEO, reached No. 1 on Amazon's Search Engines bestseller list and uses client figures to show when search work starts paying for itself.
- [Reading App Omphalis Lets Readers Use AI to Understand a Research Paper by Asking Questions Out Loud](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/how-to-use-ai-to-understand-a-research-paper): Founder Stanly Thomas, who has more than 20 years of engineering experience, including roles at Microsoft, Oracle and Schneider Electric, designed the voice feature to ground each spoken answer in the reader's selected sources, with the passages it used on screen.
- [Rick Tabor's Sci-Fi Political Thriller The Blink of Humanity Explores the Dire Cost of Political Corruption](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/rick-tabor-the-blink-of-humanity): The Blink of Humanity follows a bioengineer with epilepsy and her robot companion as they set out to bring a corrupt US president to justice after a nuclear attack on Chicago.
- [Hanns Scharff's Son Chris Scharff Traces His Family's Path From Wartime Germany to Africa and America in WWII Memoir](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/hanns-scharff-son-chris-scharff-memoir): Born in Greiz in 1936, the Carlsbad author spent 20 years in South Africa and Rhodesia before joining his father in Los Angeles, and in retirement met one of the American pilots his father had interrogated.
- [Physician Associate and Spiritual Coach Elizabeth M. Lykins Says Lasting Change Begins in Stillness](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/elizabeth-m-lykins-reflections-on-transcendence): An urgent care provider since 1996, Elizabeth wrote Reflections on Transcendence, which features 59 paintings by her lifelong friend, the late expressionist Steven D. Lyons, who selected each painting to match the text.
- [Joseph Howse's Soviet-Era Novel The Circus and the Atom Wins World Literature and Audiobook Fiction at the 2026 NYC Big Book Award](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/joseph-howse-circus-and-the-atom-nyc-big-book-award): The Nova Scotia author's second book, set in Kiev over the New Year of 1988 into 1989, also took a Distinguished Favorite for its cover, while his debut The Girl in the Water was honoured for its audiobook. The Next Year's Snow series has now sold to more than 80 public library systems in seven countries.
- [Neva Rose's Debut Novel By Any Other Name Traces Family Secrets Back to a Crossed-Out Surname](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/neva-rose-by-any-other-name-family-secrets): After 40 years in nursing, the Houston author retired in 2021 and turned years of late-night notes and family stories into the story of Rachel, whose mother wrote a different name on her birth certificate.
- [Authors Are Opening Their Anthropic Settlement Notices and Finding Smaller Payments Than They Counted On](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/anthropic-settlement-authors-smaller-payments): Much of the shortfall traces to a split with publishers and to old disputes over who holds the rights, and the Authors Guild says most of it can still be corrected.
- [End Times Fascism: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Map a Far Right Preparing to Survive the Collapse It Is Causing](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/end-times-fascism-naomi-klein-astra-taylor): Out on 15 September from Allen Lane, the book grows a 5,000-word Guardian essay into a 384-page argument that Christian Zionists, Silicon Valley accelerationists and border-hardening governments now share one belief, that a cataclysm is coming and only a deserving few need saving from it, and answers with a politics of staying put.
- [John Bissell's The Power of Negative Thinking Draws on 14 Years Rescuing Failing Businesses in Portland](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/john-bissell-power-of-negative-thinking): The author lost a company of his own when a single client went bankrupt owing him 83% of his income, then coached more than 100 owners of failing businesses between 1986 and 2000. His practical guide argues that doubt and worry, used deliberately, are better preparation than forced positivity.
- [Tennessee Psychotherapist Judy K. Herman on Caregiver Burnout After Dolly Parton's Passing](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/judy-herman-caregiver-burnout-dolly-parton): Four days before she passed away, Parton said she was dealing with health issues she "just didn't pay attention to" while watching over Carl Dean. The Chattanooga relationship therapist, 20 years in practice, sees the same pattern most often in high-achieving women, and teaches a 90-second breathing practice to interrupt it.
- [Vivi Tran's Vietnam War Novel The Porch Light I Leave On Began at Her Memoir's Book Signings](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/vivi-tran-porch-light-i-leave-on): The author's new novel, continuing Where the Leaves Fall, follows Tim, a veteran struggling with PTSD and the effects of Agent Orange, and Kate, the Vietnamese refugee his family sponsors.
- [Outback Odyssey Review: The Yorkshire Orphan Who Asked to Be Taught the Land](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/outback-odyssey-review): Paul Rushworth-Brown's post-war migrant novel sends a Yorkshire orphan by ship to a Gippsland sheep station, and its opening chapters are the author's own father's story.
- [Beautifully Unbroken Review: The Shower Shirt Inventor's Breast Cancer Memoir Begins with the Loss of Her Mother](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/beautifully-unbroken-review): The medical journalist who patented The Shower Shirt after her own mastectomy tells the story behind it, and the story of the mother she lost two weeks after her wedding, in a memoir that will be of most use to a woman with surgery ahead of her.
- [Call Out The Dogs Review: Anthony Eddolls Takes Agent Stilley From a Rome Murder to the Doors of the White House](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/call-out-the-dogs-review): The third Special Agent David Stilley adventure opens as a two-city murder case and finishes as a political thriller, written by an author who spent four decades in finance before turning to crime fiction from his home in Upcountry Maui.
- [Weekend Bookshelf: Upcoming New Titles for Your Soul](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/weekend-bookshelf-upcoming-new-titles-for-your-soul): Five upcoming autumn 2026 titles on the power of writing, reflection and simplicity
- [Swan Song: Earl Spencer Tells His Sister's Story](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/swan-song-earl-spencer-tells-his-sister-s-story): A preview of Charles Spencer's forthcoming memoir Swan Song, Diana, My Sister, published this September ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of her death.
- [The Most Anticipated Memoirs This Autumn](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/the-most-anticipated-memoirs-this-autumn): This autumn's memoir crop reads less like a collection of celebrity stories and more like a season devoted to reckonings, a brother finally speaking for his sister, a journalist writing his way out of a Russian prison cell, a physicist's private letters made public for the first time.
- [ The 10 Most Anticipated Books to Read This Autumn ](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/the-10-most-anticipated-books-to-read-this-autumn): Two very different reading moods define this autumn's list. Half the season is asking hard questions about how democracies actually fail. The other half is settling in with the people who have spent decades telling the truth about their own lives, often the funniest way possible.
- [The Best Upcoming Children's Books to Read This Autumn](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/the-best-upcoming-children-s-books-to-read-this-autumn): This autumn's children's list has an unusually confident range to it, gentle picture books about loss and community sitting alongside twin detectives, a lizard with genuine comic timing, and a visual tribute to David Bowie built for readers who have never heard a note of his music.
- [Mahvash Sabet Wrote Her Prison Memoir From a Solitary Cell](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/mahvash-sabet-open-wide-the-doors-prison-memoir): Recognized abroad with a share of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize, the Iranian Baha'i poet finished one ten-year term only to be sentenced to another, and remains at risk today.
- [Poetry by Season: The Best Upcoming Poetry for This Autumn ](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/poetry-by-season-the-best-upcoming-poetry-for-this-autumn): Five collections publishing this autumn share a preoccupation that feels exactly right for the season, what survives a loss, a family reshaped, a familiar place seen freshly. Here is where to start.
- [Great and Unfortunate Things: The Memoir Jason Arday Leaves Behind](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/great-and-unfortunate-things-the-memoir-jason-arday-leaves-behind): What Jason Arday's memoir Great and Unfortunate Things tells, and how critics have received it, following his death days after its US publication.
- [Lisa F. Crites Turns Her Own Cancer Recovery Into a Patented Invention and a New Memoir, Beautifully Unbroken](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/lisa-crites-beautifully-unbroken): The medical journalist behind The Shower Shirt™, the first patented water-resistant garment for chest surgery patients, tells how the sudden loss of her mother, a breast cancer diagnosis, and a book deal she turned down twice became an Amazon Best Seller, with proceeds pledged to breast cancer support groups.
- [Destroying Books Is a Cultural Crime. Project Panama Destroyed Millions of Books with No Legal Consequence](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/destroying-books-is-a-cultural-crime): Anthropic bought millions of books, cut them apart and pulped them after scanning. No court called it a crime. Destroying books is a cultural crime and no ruling changes that.
- [You Have a Story Worth Sharing- We are all made of stories but yours will define who we are](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/you-have-a-story-worth-sharing): Every life contains a book. Some people write it.
- [In  Conversation With Francis Fukuyama on the Last Man He Once Declared Triumphant](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/in-conversation-with-francis-fukuyama-on-the-last-man-he-once-declared-triumphant): In 1989, a young political scientist announced that history itself had reached its destination. On 2 September, at the London School of Economics, Francis Fukuyama returns to ask what he got right, what he got wrong and what thirty-seven years have done to that argument. He discusses his new memoir In the Realm of the Last Man at the London School of Economics on 2 September 2026. Here is what to expect.
- [Authors May Have to Keep Records of How They Write Their Own Books](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/authors-records-ai-written-books-harpercollins): HarperCollins' chief executive says no software can reliably tell a human manuscript from an AI-assisted one, and that a book written with AI help might not be copyrightable at all.
- [Readers Cannot Tell Whether a Short Story Came From a Person or ChatGPT](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/readers-cannot-tell-ai-written-short-stories): In three experiments with more than 2,500 adults, the same story scored higher whenever readers were told a human had written it.
- [AI Research Tools Can Now Quote Princeton University Press Books Without Training on Them](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/princeton-university-press-cashmere-ai-retrieval-license): The Press chooses which titles go in and on what terms, through a platform called Cashmere, and its refusal to license anything for model training still stands.
- [Five Years in Venezuelan Custody, and the Memoir a Citgo Executive Made of Them](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/toledo-1775-days-captivity-venezuela-memoir): Jorge L. Toledo was vice president of supply and marketing at Citgo when armed agents arrested him at a meeting in Caracas in November 2017, and the title of the book he published last August is a literal count of the days that followed.
- [ Bloomsbury Anthropic's $1.5 billion Copyright Settlement with Authors over 14,087 Titles ](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/bloomsbury-anthropic-s-1-5-billion-copyright-settlement-with-authors-over-14-087-titles): The Harry Potter publisher is due a multimillion pound payout from the largest copyright settlement in US history. The more interesting story is what it reveals about how a book's value gets counted once a machine has read it.
- [Leon Aryah Lewis Published His Debut Spiritual Memoir Thirty Years After Writing It](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/leon-aryah-lewis-debut-spiritual-memoir-thirty-years): Inside Out: A Journey of the Soul, published by Landon Hail Press, traces one life as a soul's autobiography, exploring reincarnation, shadow and light, and the four decades of inner work that made Leon finally ready to share it.
- [Mohsen Rifaat Traces a Life Lived Between Cairo and Canada in New Illustrated Memoir](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/mohsen-rifaat-cairo-canada-memoir): Egyptian-Canadian architect Mohsen Rifaat's illustrated memoir navigates a life between Cairo and Vancouver, and uncovers surprising historical ties between Egypt and Canada.

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