It’s the first of the month, and you know what that means: a brand new spate of new literary releases to delve into. Not that we mind — the weather’s getting brisker (not to mention those snowstorms, NYC), and we really can’t think of anything better to do than to curl up with a cup of hot cider and a great novel (or memoir, or book of essays, or short story collection). Don’t be put off by the number of big names on our list this month — we like a struggling first novel as much as the next blog, but November is the month for publishers to pull out their big guns, and boy have they ever. Click through to see our list of ten must-reads coming out this month, and let us know which books you’re most psyched to dig into in the comments.
Blue Nights, Joan Didion (November 1)
Seeing as it’s probably the most hyped book of the month, we doubt we even have to tell you why you should be excited about Didion’s newest memoir. A heartbreaking portrait of loss from one of our most wonderful and powerful contemporary memoirists, Blue Nights is an ode both to Didion’s daughter, to her own grief, and to the senselessness and serenity of the never-ending cycle of birth, old age, sickness and death.
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Already ordered The Prague Cemetery!
Of all of these the Mindy Kaling is the most interesting. I heard her speak at Book Expo and she was funny and, I think, a little nervous. I did not stand in line for an hour to get a free signed copy but I am certain it is a funny book.
I feel like the Stephen King book was an episode of a short lived New Twilight Zone series I saw in the 1980s or early 1990s.
looks like a bounteous month. though not sold on lethem’s non-fiction & delillo’s short stories. that bolano is dead is a crying shame….i’ve been reading everything of his i can get my hands on since he’s now published in english. makes you think what might have been. he’s always onto something….sometimes w/ a flash of william t. vollmann, which is a high bar indeed. apparently he lived life the same way….full tilt bozo, and it got him, in the end. too f-ing bad.
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