Hello, librarians! We hope you all are enjoying these last days of summer. Like you, we are deep into our fall reading, with no shortage of fantastic books on the TBR pile. Below, you will find our staff suggestions for the November LibraryReads List. As a reminder: votes for the November LibraryReads List are due October 1st!
Enjoy!
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For fans of: Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller and
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original postapocalyptic yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car.
"An impeccably executed, moving, and wildly inventive tale of madness and narrative at the end of the world. Lethem is at the top of his game."
—Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author of The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven
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Watch Jonathan Lethem's guest appearance on Door to Door!
For fans of: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert and
Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey
With nods to Bridget Jones and Pride and Prejudice, a charming #ownvoices queer holiday rom-com debut about a free-spirited social media astrologer who agrees to fake a relationship with an uptight actuary until New Year’s Eve—with results not even the stars could predict!
"Readers will be rapt by the sensuous love scenes once Darcy and Elle throw pretense aside.... while astrology memes ('What brunch food are you based on your zodiac?') and nods to Pride and Prejudice scattered throughout add texture. This is a delight."
—Publishers Weekly 
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Listen to a podcast interview with Alexandria Bellefleur!
Also from the author: The Sentence Is Death and
The Word Is Murder
Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.
"Moonflower Murders showcases Horowitz’s full battalion of strengths: the whiplash plotting, the leather-smooth prose, the bold energy…and above all, the bright spark of joy that ignites the best fiction—the joy of a storyteller finding brave new ways to dazzle his audience. Sophisticated, literate novels aren’t supposed to be so much fun."
—A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
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For fans of: The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people—an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives.
"A powerful story whose narrator wields brutally honest observations on the intersections of class, poverty, and gender.... A stirring genre blend of fantasy and crime fiction that combines graceful prose and magic realism."
—Booklist 
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For fans of: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi and
The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon
A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself.
"This is a brilliantly conceived and crafted coming-of-age novel of ideas, replete with literary and philosophical references, many of them Judaic. Indeed, the novel almost demands familiarity with Judaism, its culture, rituals, and vocabulary. Happily, though, this doesn’t compromise in any way the larger metaphysical meanings of the novel.... [An] unforgettable novel."
—Booklist 
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For fans of: The Girl from The Savoy by Hazel Gaynor
Set in fifteenth-century England, an unforgettable historical tale of a brilliant woman’s defiance, courage, and ingenuity—from the author of The Locksmith’s Daughter and The Chocolate Maker’s Wife.
Praise for The Chocolate Maker's Wife: "A sweeping tale brimming with historical details and figures…[this] sumptuous novel covers five eventful years that include a dreadful plague and the Great Fire of London."
—Booklist
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For fans of: The Hating Game by Sally Thorne and
One Day by David Nicholls
Penny wise or pound foolish? A heartbroken young Brit decides to turn his love life over to the flip of a coin—in this delightfully British rom-com in the vein of Jenny Colgan, Rosie Curtis, and Nick Hornby.
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For fans of: Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
A gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life—winner of Australia’s Miles Franklin Award—that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors.
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by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
For fans of: Amanda's Wedding by Jenny Colgan
The beloved author of The Mistletoe Matchmaker returns with an enchanting, cozy new novel, perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Nina George, and Nancy Thayer, about residents of Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula who set up a Skype book club with the little US town of Resolve, where generations of Finfarran's emigrants have settled.
"I was utterly charmed—a pitch-perfect delight."
—Marian Keyes, bestselling author of Watermelon and The Break
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For fans of: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
by Steve Brusatte
A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ardi"—a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution.
"Compelling science centered on a polarizing personality, this is perfect for National Geographic readers who want to dig deep into the human evolutionary tree."
—Library Journal
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Also from the author: Between the Lies and
If You Knew My Sister
For anyone who loves One Day in December and Me Before You, a sweeping love story, written with tenderness, warmth, and a generosity of spirit, about first love and second chances, a lifelong dream and finding the courage to follow your heart.
"A story of love long postponed but never forgotten, Little Wishes is a tale to be treasured. Michelle's Adam's lovely, luminous writing is a beacon that draws readers closer and brings them home to the lasting truths about life and love."
—Marie Bostwick, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of
The Restoration of Celia Fairchild
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by John "Chick" Donohue and J. T. Molloy
For fans of: Smokejumper by Jason A. Ramos
Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, who won two Academy Awards for Green Book—a wildly entertaining, feel-good memoir of an Irish-American New Yorker and former U.S. marine who embarked on a courageous, hare-brained scheme to deliver beer to his pals serving Vietnam in the late 1960s.
"Donohue’s memoir is a fascinating, vividly narrated recollection of the chaos of the Vietnam war."
—Publishers Weekly 
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For fans of: The Kingdom of Copper by S. A. Chakraborty
The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.
Praise for The Dragon Republic: "Kuang has created a young woman torn by her connections to friends and family, searching for love and belonging, and given power beyond her imagining. Her story is unforgettable."
—Library Journal 
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Also from the author: The Death of Sitting Bear and
House Made of Dawn
A beautifully written and poignant tribute to the Earth, from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet N. Scott Momaday.
"Short but satisfying.... Using lyrical, heartfelt language, [Momaday] looks back on a life lived close to nature, and on the joy that natural wonders have given him.... At a time when bad news is in plentiful supply, readers will find Momaday’s words refreshing and comforting in their sincerity."
—Publishers Weekly
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For fans of: The Child by Fiona Barton and
I Found You by Lisa Jewell
From the award-winning author of The Sisters, Local Girl Missing, and Last Seen Alive, comes a taut psychological thriller in which family secrets and hidden pasts build to a violent climax in a guesthouse among the idyllic Welsh mountains.
Praise for Last Seen Alive: "Fast-paced and chock-full of twists, Last Seen Alive is both absorbing and gripping. After reading it you’ll never dream of a house swap again."
—Paula Daly, author of The Mistake I Made
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For fans of: Devotions by Mary Oliver and
The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins
A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood.
In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and—zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived.
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-Chris
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