The Barzilai-Borwein method for nonlinear optimization is adapted to Riemannian manifold optimization. More generally, global convergence of a nonmonotone line-search strategy for Riemannian optimization algorithms is proved under some standard assumptions. By a set of numerical tests, the Riemannian BarzilaiBorwein method with nonmonotone line-search is shown to be competitive in several Riema...