# 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
- [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.
- [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.

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