The best self-help books provide comfort and inspiration. Whether through the narrative of personal experiences or the description of different methodologies to overcome personal challenges this genre has quickly become one of the best sellers of our time.
Essays are literary compositions that reflect the author's outlook or point of view. They can deal with politics, history, sociology or current events. Malcom Gladwell's "Talking to Strangers" and Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens" are great examples of very successful essay books.
Literary journalism combines factual reporting with narrative techniques and stylistic strategies normally associated with fiction. This style can also be called narrative journalism.
Highly regarded literary journalists in the U.S. today include John McPhee, Jane Kramer, Mark Singer, and Richard Rhodes. Some notable literary journalists of the past century include Stephen Crane, Jack London, George Orwell, and Tom Wolfe.
Memoirs are factual accounts of somebody’s life. They tells a story through the experiences of someone’s life. They can be strictly descriptive, but the most successful ones are literary pieces of work that revolve around a specific theme, or about a part of someone’s life. Literary memoirs carry a proper narrative shape, focus, and subject matter, involving reflection on some particular event or place.
They can be associated with popular personalities, such as celebrities, sportsmen, soldiers, singers, and writers. However, they do not need to depict the life of someone famous as long as they are able to make a connection with an audience that is able to find the story captivating, interesting, or appealing in any way.
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