Erica Ciccarone

2 weeks ago | bookpage.com | Erica Ciccarone

Readers of nonfiction know that histories and biographies provide plenty of thrills. Reading them can feel like excavating a lost civilization. This year, outstanding books by Imani Perry, Ron Chernow, Barbara Demick and more changed the way we see the world.

2 months ago | bookpage.com | Erica Ciccarone

“Sad Boy appeared each night like the moon, rising large and white over our roof.” Beside him sat Lola, his wife, who acted as his protector and companion. Sad Boy and Lola were two of the 30 cats Courtney Gustafson was surprised to find in her yard when she moved into a rental house in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tuscon, Arizona. Gustafson’s puzzlement quickly turned to a desire to help. The cats were starving, many of them sick.

Mar 24, 2025 | bookpage.com | Erica Ciccarone

Nicole Cuffy’s ambitious second novel, O Sinners!, opens with New York journalist Faruq Zaidi on assignment to embed with “the nameless,” a spiritual group with their headquarters in Northern California. Led by Odo, a charismatic Black Vietnam War vet, the nameless’ residential compound in the midst of the forest is part experiment in utopian communal living, part inflexible sect.

Mar 3, 2025 | bookpage.com | Erica Ciccarone

What do you love most about your memoir? The greatest thing I have ever written was my rights into existence. This is the second. It was healing to write it and I hope that readers will be able to heal a part of their soul while reading it too. What kind of reader do you think will most appreciate or enjoy your book? Anyone who has had to heal, is on their healing journey and wants to know how to change the world will enjoy the book.

Mar 3, 2025 | bookpage.com | Erica Ciccarone

What do you love most about your memoir? I love the idea that it might prompt other people to think deeply about their own reading habits, and perhaps go back to some of the books that shaped them. Maybe it’s the teacher in me, but if any readers of Bibliophobia go back and reread at least one of the books that’s changed the way they think or feel, I’ll be happy. What kind of reader do you think will most appreciate or enjoy your book?