What We Read in November

This is what FDLPL staff read and loved in November

Updated November 24, 2025
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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
Audiobook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign...
Gender queer : a memoir
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...
The handmaid's tale
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times) * The sixth and final season of the award-winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss is now streaming ...
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
Audiobook
Meditations for mortals : four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts
Burkeman, Oliver
Ebook
Pax
Pennypacker, Sara
Paper Book
* Extensive galley distribution including: Big Mouth mailing with letter from Patty, author or editor; extensive conference and preview distribution; wholesaler preview events * Announcement and Review Advertising in major media outlets such as SLJ, Booklist, and The Horn Book * Featured title at...
The serviceberry : abundance and reciprocity in the natural world
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Audiobook
The spellshop
Durst, Sarah Beth
Ebook
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER! A #1 LibraryReads pick! An Indie Next pick! The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst's romantasy debut-a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships,...
Under the tulip tree
Shocklee, Michelle
Paper Book
A story waits to be told. When a young woman in Tennessee begins to write it down, what she discovers will change her forever.Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland's dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Seven years into the Great...
The Windeby puzzle : history and story
Lowry, Lois
Paper Book
Big Mouth ARE mailing to a curated list of influential librarians and educators  Announcement Advertising in key school & library media, such as School Library Journal, The Horn Book and Booklist  Launch and lead promotion at school & library conferences and...

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