Look around, look around… SO MANY GREAT NOVEMBER BOOKS. I am in NYC this week on many bookish adventures, but I had the opportunity to read a bunch of amazing titles out today. You can hear about a few of these books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Jenn and I talked about amazing books we loved, such as The City of Brass, Into the Drowning Deep, and The Wild Book.
SUPERFAIL by Max Brunner, illustrated by Dustin Mackay
Laser vision isn’t so hot when you’re cross-eyed. Just ask Marshall Preston, a twelve-year-old with superhuman abilities that are restricted by some very human setbacks. While other kids are recruited to superhero teams, Marshall’s stuck with a team of young Defectives: super speedy but can’t turn corners, radioactive Hulk allergies, and supersonic flight hindered by motion sickness. They aren’t exactly superhero material, but when Marshall uncovers a plot to destroy one of the greatest superhero teams of all time, he and his less-than-super friends set out to prove that just because you’re defective doesn’t mean you can’t save the day.
(And like last time, I’m putting a next to the books that I have read and loved. There are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!)
Mean by Myriam Gurba
Hardcore Twenty-Four: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich
End Game (Will Robie Series) by David Baldacci
Blackbird by Michael Fiegel
The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
No Saints in Kansas by Amy Brashear
The Last Sheriff in Texas: A True Tale of Violence and the Vote by James P. McCollom
Don’t Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles by James Salter
Goldeline by Jimmy Cajoleas
Mother of All Pigs by Malu Halasa
The Book of Formation by Ross Simonini
The Inside Out Man by Fred Strydom
The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide by Gayle Brandeis
On Power: My Journey Through the Corridors of Power and How You Can Get More Power by Gene Simmons
Thousands by Lightsey Darst
Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda
Runebinder by Alex R. Kahler
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden
Artemis by Andy Weir
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang
Adult Fantasy: searching for true maturity in an age of mortgages, marriages, and other adult milestones by Briohny Doyle
Oathbringer: Book Three of the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson
I Don’t Want to Know Anyone Too Well: Collected Stories by Norman Levine
The Ghost of Christmas Past (Molly Murphy Mysteries) by Rhys Bowen
The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen
The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead by Thomas Mira y Lopez
The Imagined Land by Eduardo Berti, Charlotte Coombe (Translator)
Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
The Savage by Frank Bill
Future Home of the Living God: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
Creatures of Will & Temper by Molly Tanzer
The Night Language by David Rocklin
The Wild Book (Yonder) by Juan Villoro (Author), Lawrence Schimel (Translator)
A Beautiful Young Woman by Julian Lopez
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Improvement: A Novel by Joan Silber
After the End of the World (Carter & Lovecraft) by Jonathan L. Howard
Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener
The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
Whichwood by Tahereh Mafi
Fates and Traitors by Jennifer Chiaverini (Now in paperback.)
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Now in paperback.)
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That’s it for me today – time to get back to reading! If you want to learn more about books new and old (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!
Stay rad,
Liberty