What We Read in November

This is what FDLPL staff read and loved in November

Updated November 29, 2025
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What We Read in November

This is what FDLPL staff read and loved in November

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Wells, Martha
Paper Book
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award for Best Novella Winner of the Alex Award A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Now an Apple Original series from Academy Award nominees Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and starring Emmy...
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
Paper Book
**A Sunday Times Bestseller** **An Economist Best Book of the Year** The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state...
Gender queer
Kobabe, Maia
Paper Book
2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was...
Good things: recipes to share with people you love
Nosrat, Samin.
Paper Book
Once I hand them off to you, these recipes are no longer mine. They're yours, to do with as you please. And maybe, in the act of receiving, a little thread of connection will be woven between me and each of you. How can a recipe express the joy of sharing a meal in...
The handmaid's tale
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
One of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time in display-worthy hardcover: A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution--from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times) The sixth and final season...
The house with a dragon in it
Lake, Nick
Paper Book
An adventure to treasure from two multi award-winning creators, discover a classic story of family, friendship and believing in your own magic.  When Summer and her foster family are having lunch one day, a hole appears in the middle of the living room. That hole leads to a...
Julie Chan is Dead
Zhang, Liann.
Paper Book
The instant internationally bestselling outrageously unputdownable debut for fans of Bunny, Bat Eater and Yellowface 'An absolute masterpiece' STYLIST 'You'll enjoy this nail-biting life-swap ride through the glossy influencer scene'...
The land in winter
Miller, Andrew
Paper Book
⭐ Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ⭐ ⭐ Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025 ⭐ ⭐ Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 ⭐ A book of the year for the Independent, Guardian,<...
Legends & lattes : a novel of high fantasy and low stakes
Baldree, Travis
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2022 A Library Reads Pick An Indie Next Pick A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee The much-beloved BookTok sensation, Travis Baldree's novel of high...
Listen for the lie
Tintera, Amy
Paper Book
Am I a murderer? You tell me . . . Lucy Chase can't remember anything about the night her best friend was murdered. Lucky her, you're probably thinking. Who would want that to be their last memory of someone they love? But for Lucy, it's become an issue....
Matt Sprouts and the search fot the chompy wompers
Eicheldinger, Matt
Paper Book
Matt Sprouts is back in this third installment of the New York Times bestselling series! As Matt navigates the ups and downs of buying into a collectible toy hype, he learns valuable lessons about friendship, responsibility, and the complexities of making tough choices. Educator and...
Meditations for mortals : four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts
Burkeman, Oliver
Paper Book
**AS SEEN ON ITV'S THIS MORNING** 'Full of wisdom and comfort ... a really important book' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN, author of Ultra-Processed People How can we embrace our non-negotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when there's always too much...
Pax
Pennypacker, Sara
Paper Book
The moving story of the extraordinary friendship between a boy and his fox and their epic journey to be reunited. Beautifully illustrated by multi-award winner, Jon Klassen. Now available in Paperback! Pax was only a kit when his family was killed and he was rescued by 'his...
The serviceberry : abundance and reciprocity in the natural world
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world....
Sorcery and Small Magics
Doocy, Maiga.
Paper Book
Leovander Loveage is a master of small magics. He can summon butterflies with a song or turn someone's hair pink by snapping his fingers. Such minor charms don't earn him much admiration from other sorcerers (or his father), but anything more elaborate always blows up in his face. Which is why Leo...
The spellshop
Durst, Sarah Beth
Paper Book
Perfect for fans of Travis Baldree and TJ Klune, The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst is a cosy fantasy tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams and even sweeter romance. 'Reading this book was like sitting in the sun . . . a warm, peaceful...
The staircase in the woods
Wendig, Chuck
Paper Book
A group of friends investigate the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents Five high school friends, bonded by an oath to protect each other no matter what.
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