# Rich Books

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

Rich Books Magazine, the books shaping how we think, lead and live: fiction, non-fiction, memoir and the people who write them.

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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
- [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.
- [DUMB 31 Review: Nik Nanoski's Debut Finds Community at the End of the World](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/dumb-31-review-nik-nanoski): The Army veteran and nurse's post-apocalyptic debut follows four friends out of a failing bunker and into a surface world still full of people, where survival is a group effort.
- [Hollywood Producers Joshua L. Ritter and Joe Salwen Teach How to Write a Screenplay From the Other Side of the Desk](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/ritter-salwen-how-to-write-screenplay-levenger): Two Hollywood producers with Netflix and Academy Award credits distill years of reading scripts into a practical Levenger Master Class workbook for aspiring screenwriters.
- [Army Veteran and Nurse Nik Nanoski Releases DUMB 31, a Post-Apocalyptic Novel Ten Years in the Making](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/nik-nanoski-dumb-31-post-apocalyptic-novel): The San Antonio author spent a decade writing a science fiction novel where survival depends on teamwork, not lone heroes, drawing on twenty years as a combat medic and nurse.
- [The Brexit Lie Has a Name — and the Men Who Told It Have Gone Very Quiet ](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/the-brexit-lie-has-a-name-and-the-men-who-told-it-have-gone-very-quiet): Anthony Seldon's 'The Brexit Effect' is the most serious reckoning with the Brexit decade yet published. It is also, conspicuously, missing the voice of the man who has said plainest what many now believe: that Brexit was a con and that the people who sold it should be held to account. When you read it alongside Michael Heseltine's 'From Acorns to Oaks', you can see the full picture: what was lost, who lost it, and what a different Britain could still become.
- [The Healing Power of Poetry: A Medicine as Old as Writing Itself](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/the-healing-power-of-poetry-a-medicine-as-old-as-writing-itself): The history of poetry and the science behind poetry therapy, from Ancient Egypt to modern expressive writing studies and why verse heals what prose cannot. Poetry has treated grief, trauma and loneliness for four thousand years, and modern research now shows exactly why it works.
- [Ulrich Brugger's Eternally New Is a Contemplative Answer to the Self-Help Industry](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/ulrich-brugger-eternally-new-aphorisms): After more than sixty years of writing, the founder of The Ojai Retreat has published a collection of aphorisms that sets itself against the formulas of modern self-help.
- [Dr. Latrece Wright Shares the Health Scare Behind The Uninvited Pebble](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/latrece-wright-uninvited-pebble-health-scare): In The Uninvited Pebble, Georgia minister Dr. Latrece Wright writes about the weeks of waiting after a routine mammogram found a solid mass, and the faith that carried her through them.
- [Helpless](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/helpless): Jessica Knoll's fourth novel opens not with a body but with a funeral, and asks who owns a story once two people have lived it
- [Regime Change- Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/regime-change-inside-the-imperial-presidency-of-donald-trump-by-maggie-haberman-and-jonathan-swan): Haberman and Swan report that in the summer of 2025 the White House Situation Room, the secure complex from which a president once watched the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, was turned to a very different purpose. According to their account, the most senior officials in the government gathered there, in the room built for the gravest decisions of national security, not to weigh a threat to the country but to manage a political crisis over the Jeffrey Epstein files. The authors describe a facility meant to protect the nation used instead to protect one man's reputation. If the reporting holds, it is the book's argument made concrete, the machinery of the state quietly turned towards the interests of the person at its head.
- [Poetry by Season ](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/poetry-by-season): A simple guide to the verse that suits each turn of the year, for the person who likes their reading to keep time with the light
- [The Reading and Writing Room- What the Judges Are Reading](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/the-reading-and-writing-room-what-the-judges-are-reading): A glimpse inside the rooms where the great book prizes are decided, and what the people selecting the next Booker Prize or Pulitzer winner are actually looking for
- [ Careless People:  Sarah Wynn-Williams' Memoir revelling how the elite shaped world events](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams-memoir-revelling-how-the-elite-shaped-world-events): Sarah Wynn-Williams invented her own job at Facebook, then spent seven years watching it from the inside. Her memoir reads like literature and lands like testimony. The book gives you "a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them."
- [How Kathy Taylor Turned Two Stays in Marburg Into an Autobiographical Novel](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/the-birthing-house-kathy-taylor): A retired professor wrote The Birthing House across two decades and two stays in the same German town. It is a novel about grief, language, and how writing returns a woman to herself.
- [The Compliant Cowgirl: Christa Jan Ryan's Cautionary Memoir of Love and Codependency](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/the-compliant-cowgirl-codependency-memoir): In her memoir The Compliant Cowgirl, Christa Jan Ryan follows a man to 1970s Wyoming, loses herself in the relationship, and writes the way back out of codependency.
- [Seething Storm Review: A. N. Jones Brings Her Atlantis Trilogy to a Close](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/seething-storm-review-a-n-jones-brings-her-atlantis-trilogy-to-a-close): Seething Storm ends The Patrons of Earth trilogy with a quest to the lost city of Atlantis, a war among the Greek gods, and the most assured writing of the series.
- [Cathy Warshaw Turns an Eight-Book Young Adult Mystery Series Into a Free Magazine and Global Youth Outreach Programme](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/cathy-warshaw-sisterhood-sleuths-young-adult-mystery-series-free-magazine-outreach): The Sisterhood Sleuths franchise now spans books, a free digital magazine, a schools outreach programme, podcasts, and board games, all aimed at building critical thinking in readers aged 10 to 18.
- [Kenneth Bliss Writes Christian Fantasy Books for the Dungeons and Dragons Generation](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/kenneth-bliss-christian-fantasy-books-gamers): The Michigan author maps tabletop RPG mechanics onto Christian theology across two books set in the same universe, targeting a niche that barely registers in search data.
- [Sharon Philbrick Created a Children's Book Series That Teaches Economics Without a Single Lesson](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/sharon-philbrick-created-a-children-s-book-series-that-teaches-economics-without-a-single-lesson): Clara Stories uses gentle coastal stories, invisible coins and a character called Airius to introduce six-year-olds to money, fairness and AI, with companion guides so parents can join the conversation.
- [Sorrowful Mysteries by Anthony P. Jones Called 'The Da Vinci Code on Steroids' by Producer George Folsey Jr.](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/anthony-p-jones-sorrowful-mysteries-da-vinci-code-on-steroids): The late Hollywood producer behind Animal House and Coming to America endorsed the Virginia author's Catholic thriller before his death in December 2024.
- [Voyage of the Salamander: The Independent Space Opera That Just Won Three BookFest 2026 Awards](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/voyage-of-the-salamander-bookfest-2026-awards): Christian Hurst writes his Lily Starling novels on evenings and weekends, between a day job in advertising and a house full of rescue beagles. This month one of them quietly took First Place in three categories at the BookFest 2026 awards, and it is one of the warmest, most character-driven space operas you will read this year.
- [Dan Mrejeru's Speakingman: A Geologist's Theory on the Evolution of Human Intelligence](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/dan-mrejeru-speakingman-evolution-human-intelligence): The Romanian-born engineer has spent two decades arguing that planetary cooling, not diet or mutation, rewired the hominin brain and produced human language. The seventh edition of The Speakingman arrives this month.
- [Climate Scientist Norm Leo Says Going Green Pays Better Than You Think](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/norm-leo-climate-solutions-health-wealth): A climate scientist who has given more than 700 talks argues that sustainability is not about sacrifice. His new book maps the personal returns of every major climate solution.
- [Gripping Finale Seething Storm Concludes The Patrons of Earth Trilogy By A. N. Jones](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/an-jones-patrons-of-earth-trilogy): A. N. Jones spent a decade writing her way back to the trilogy she started with her late mother. Seething Storm, the final book in The Patrons of Earth series, is words woven with love, grief and strength."
- [A Debut Novelist Writes a Man's Trauma to Say What Men Rarely Get to](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/gabrielle-pelayo-fractured-never-shattered-debut-novel): Gabrielle Pelayo's debut psychological fiction, Fractured, Never Shattered, follows a composed man whose memories stop staying buried, built from real conversations about what men do not say out loud.
- [Citiscape: The Magical Realism Novel Asking Readers to See the People Cities Forget](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/citiscape-the-magical-realism-novel-asking-readers-to-see-the-people-cities-forget): Beverly Schloendorf's debut weaves Death, a ghost-turned-guardian and a homeless girl into eighteen interconnected tales about urban invisibility.
- [A Biochemist's Novel Imagines the Sense Humans Lost When Speech Began](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/genes-of-the-past-christer-jansson-lost-sense): Biochemist Christer Jansson's Genes of the Past uses a fictional 550,000-year-old Moroccan fossil to propose a sense ancient hominins lost when spoken words began replacing mental images.
- [Katrina Bills Wrote an Award-Winning Daily Prayer Devotional That Doubles as a Spiritual Growth Manual](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/katrina-bills-prayed-up-daily-prayer-devotional): The Chicago-born author and publisher built Prayed Up around real seasons of loss, love, and faith, then watched it win a NYC Big Book Award.
- [Cindy Divine Is the Fictional Girl Holding a Mirror to Real American Politics](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/cindy-divine-shafter-bailey-coming-of-age-novel): Shafter Bailey's debut novel follows a traumatized girl who becomes a global figure, but the real target is the political class that lets children fall through the cracks.
- [John Green's New Book Ends a Nine-Year Silence](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/john-green-new-book-hollywood-ending): The Fault in Our Stars author announces Hollywood, Ending, his first novel since 2017 and his first work of adult fiction.
- [Author James C. Clemens Jr on the Poems That Came From Listening to God](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/james-clemens-jr-echoes-of-strength-faith-poetry): In Echoes of Strength, James C. Clemens Jr turns real experiences of struggle, family, and faith into inspirational poetry that reads less like verse and more like testimony.
- [Therapist Glen Alex Says the Entire Boundary Conversation Is Wrong](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/therapist-glen-alex-says-the-entire-boundary-conversation-is-wrong): Licensed clinical social worker Glen Alex spent 25 years watching clients fall short of healthy boundaries, not because they lacked willpower, but because the advice was wrong. Her new book Living Boundaries makes the case against "just say no."
- [Emma Hartwell Wrote Pixie Littlefield for Children. The Mothers Who Read It Had Other Ideas](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/emma-hartwell-pixie-littlefield-mothers-neurodivergence): Author Emma Hartwell's neurodivergent heroine Pixie Littlefield has sparked an unexpected wave of adult readers, women who recognise their own undiagnosed neurodivergence in a children's picture book.
- [Author Karen Lawrence Delivered Babies in the NHS, Now She Delivers Bestselling Stories](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/nhs-midwife-karen-lawrence-debut-novel-the-last-midwife): Former NHS midwife Karen Lawrence began writing during the Covid pandemic. Her debut novel The Last Midwife, a dystopian thriller about state-controlled childbirth, became a bestseller.
- [How a Dream About a Polar Bear Became a Children's Book on Climate and the Food Chain](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/hope-for-the-future-childrens-book-polar-bear-climate): Artist Jane Dugan and author Esther Meerschaut created Hope For The Future after a vivid dream led Dugan to First Nations polar bear legends — and a mission to teach young readers about ecological responsibility.
- [Dr Egilius Spierings Made Headache Science Worth Hearing](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/dr-egilius-spierings-made-headache-science-worth-hearing): A neurologist with over four decades of clinical experience turns headache research into an audiobook that finally explains what your doctor never had time to.
- [Kath Orman on the Money Habits Your Parents Gave You](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/kath-orman-on-the-money-habits-your-parents-gave-you): After three decades in financial planning, Kath Orman wrote a book about the emotional patterns that shape how we handle money.

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