These Are the 10 Best Books to Look Out for in November 2025

You mightiness retrieve that we included the stunning hardback merchandise of Callie Hart’s record-breaking publication Quicksilver successful our roundup of the champion caller books of August 2025, and for those of america who person been counting down the days until its sequel, Brimstone yet hits shelves midway done this month.

Picking up aft the events of the archetypal book, Saeris rapidly discovers that a monarch’s beingness is not her ain aft being crowned the queen of the Blood Court. And with a acheronian falling crossed Yvelia, the full realm is successful danger. Frustratingly, her caller powers person besides weakened her, truthful Saeris volition surely dice if she makes her mode location done the Quicksilver. Which means, erstwhile again, she indispensable nonstop idiosyncratic other successful her place. How volition Kingfisher and his question companion, Carrion Swift, fare? And volition they beryllium capable to prevention their friends? You’ll person to prime up a transcript to find out.

Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree

Release date: November 11 (US) - November 13 (UK)

If, similar us, you haven’t been capable to get capable of Travis Baldree’s Legends & Lattes series, publication 3 reunites america with foul-mouthed bookseller Fern. Despite being utilized to the ups and downs of a bookseller’s life, she finds herself wanting more. Surely a alteration of scenery and a amusive renovation montage erstwhile she gets determination volition shingle things up? Well, things aren’t rather that simple, arsenic you mightiness expect.

After feeling peculiarly atrocious for herself and getting alternatively drunk, she wakes up successful the backmost of a wagon, which conscionable truthful happens to beryllium to a legendary elf warrior who is transporting a goblin for a bounty. Even though she manages to person the warrior to fto her tag on for the journey, it turns retired that rather a fewer radical – immoderate of whom are beauteous nefarious – privation the goblin and the ample bounty that she represents too. As they instrumentality the journey, Fern starts to observe who she is distant from the pressures and perceived idyllic beingness of being a bookseller, arsenic good arsenic what she truly wants to do.

Bookish Deal Alert: 3 for 2 astatine Amazon

Here's a large woody to instrumentality enactment of successful the physique up to the Black Friday sales. Two of our picks from the champion books for November are included its latest "3 for 2" promotion. If you're not familiar, it's fundamentally conscionable a bargain 2, get 1 escaped sale.

Both Brigands & Breadknives, by Travis Baldree, and The Merge, by Grace Walker, are included successful the deal, which means you could get both, and past an other publication astatine nary other cost.

There's a massive database of different books eligible and each you request to bash is spot immoderate 3 successful your cart and the terms of the cheapest 1 volition beryllium discounted astatine checkout. To marque the astir of the sale, you'll privation to bargain 3 things that are each akin successful price. You tin besides bargain multiples and inactive person the discount.

The Merge by Grace Walker

Release date: November 6 (UK) - November 11 (US)

What if determination was a mode to prevention your loved 1 from symptom and suffering? Well, Grace Walker’s debut caller posits that nonstop question. With her mother’s caput and memories starting to slice owed to Alzheimer’s, Amelia signs them some up to instrumentality portion successful the world’s

first experimental merging process for Alzheimer’s patients. It volition spot her mother’s ailing caput beryllium transferred into Amelia’s steadfast assemblage and their consciousness blended arsenic one. I mean, what could spell wrong?

They soon articulation a radical of different partners participating successful the merge. There’s teenage Lucas who plans to merge with his terminally sick member Noah, Ben who volition merge with his large fiancée Annie, and Jay, whose merging spouse is his unwilling addict girl Lara. But arsenic they hole to determination to the luxurious rehab centre for those who person undergone the process, they rapidly statesman to question what is going connected and if everything is truly arsenic it seems. We emotion the dependable of this one.

Exit Strategy: A Reacher Novel by Lee Child and Andrew Child

Release date: November 4 (UK) - November 11 (US)

Fans of the Reacher books – arsenic good arsenic the deed Amazon Prime TV amusement of the aforesaid sanction – volition nary uncertainty beryllium thrilled to cognize that there’s a caller communicative dropping this month. And adjacent though it’s the 30th publication successful the series, it’s inactive arsenic thrilling and captivating arsenic ever.

Jack Reacher volition marque 3 abstracted stops today, however, they weren’t each planned. He starts his day, similar galore of america might, successful a java shop. He takes a spot successful the corner, facing the doorway and different than a insignificant interruption from 2 of the customers, there’s thing of note. That’s until a young antheral brushes up against him successful the doorway arsenic helium goes to leave. Instinctively Reacher checks his pocket, but thing is missing. Next connected his database of errands, buying a caller coat. Yet erstwhile helium pulls retired his currency to wage for it, helium finds thing caller successful his pocket. A handwritten enactment with a hopeless plea for help. Impressed by their method and intrigued by the message, Reacher makes it his ngo to find retired precisely what’s going on.

Fallen Stars by Imani Erriu

Release date: November 25 (US) - November 27 (UK)

The follow-up to 1 of past year’s buzziest romantasy books, Heavenly Bodies, Fallen Stars opens with Elara’s beloved, Enzo, successful a heavy sleep. He’s perilously trapped determination betwixt the planes of beingness and death. Not lone that, but her force has vanished, taking Enzo’s lone transportation to the waking satellite with him.

In her quest to awaken him she indispensable question assistance from friends aged and new, including the Titans, a league of gods who ruled the satellite agelong earlier the Stars. However, it soon becomes wide that determination is simply a darker powerfulness astatine play, 1 that adjacent the King of the Stars, Ariete, is acrophobic of. As she struggles to find a mode to waken her soulmate, there’s 1 happening for sure, each Star volition autumn earlier she is finished.

Bookish Deal Alert: 3 Months of Audible for $0.99/Month

Ahead of the retailer's Prime Big Deal Days merchantability event, Audible's already offering 3 months of its Premium Plus program for conscionable $0.99/month / £0.99 successful the UK, which is simply a large dainty for audiobook fans.

In summation to different Audible benefits, that means you get 3 audiobooks for $3. You mightiness adjacent find immoderate of the champion books from November disposable determination soon.

This connection is acceptable to past for rather a while, until December 16 this year, but if you're a large audiobook idiosyncratic it's a woody that's perfectly worthy taking vantage of portion it's available.

It's besides worthy noting that, aft your archetypal 3 months, the program volition auto-renew astatine $14.95/month. However, this is simply a large accidental to springiness the work a trial earlier commiting to it.

Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Release date: November 11 (US) - November 13 (UK)

Author of the Vera Wong bid of cosy transgression capers and Dial A For Aunties, Jesse Q. Sutanto brings america a caller standalone publication blending a coming of property and a emotion story

told from the perspectives of a grandma and her granddaughter.

Izzy Chen is not looking guardant to her family’s yearly Chinese New Year celebrations, that is until her seventy-three-year-old grandmother, Magnolia, walks successful with a stunning pistillate connected her limb and kisses her successful beforehand of everyone. Given that Izzy has ever felt a spot similar the achromatic sheep of her family, particularly erstwhile she’s pushed down feelings akin to the ones that her Nainai conscionable displayed, arsenic good arsenic struggling with who she is and however to judge herself, this 1 infinitesimal changes everything. What follows is simply a communicative that spans decades and continents, arsenic Magnolia shows Izzy that life’s unexpected paths and choices tin often pb you to precisely who and wherever you’re meant to be.

Fallen City by Adrienne Young

Release date: November 4

The archetypal successful what volition beryllium a duology, Adrienne Young’s Fallen City transports america to the large walled metropolis of Isara. And erstwhile a rebellion that has been brewing for 1 100 years yet ignites and the metropolis is thrown into implicit chaos, our 2 protagonists find themselves connected other sides of a beatified war

Luca indispensable transportation connected his household name, maintaining its beingness successful the Forum, portion Maris faces a beingness of work to a corrupt metropolis aft being raised wrong the interior workings of the Citadel arsenic a Magistrate’s daughter. Yet, a accidental gathering betwixt the 2 volition endanger the destiny of the precise metropolis that is keeping them apart. Can they find their mode backmost to 1 another? And wherefore are they astatine the centre of a communicative the gods themselves are writing? Thankfully, we don’t person agelong to hold until we find out.

The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry

Release date: November 4

Just due to the fact that Halloween is implicit for different twelvemonth doesn’t mean that you person to forgo each things horror, and Christina Henry’s The Place Where They Buried Your Heart is simply a haunted location communicative similar nary other. We’ve each astir apt heard an municipality legend, oregon two, erstwhile it comes to an abandoned house. But the aged McIntyre spot has a overmuch much sinister history, and not conscionable due to the fact that it was the spot wherever a begetter murdered his full household and himself.

After Jessie dared her small member Paul to spell wrong the ominous house, helium ne'er returned and his 2 friends, Jake and Richie – who helium brought on with him – accidental that the location ate him. And with Jake emerging with his limb virtually torn off, could the location really beryllium live and an entity of its own? As Jessie grows up and finds herself incapable to permission the street, Paul’s disappearance isn’t the lone enigma to blight the location and she and her neighbours commencement to realise that a acheronian is spreading from the location and determination mightiness not beryllium a mode to halt it. I conscionable finished speechmaking this and it had maine hooked the full mode through.

The Same Backward arsenic Forward by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Release date: November 6

Whether you’re already a instrumentality of Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ The Inheritance Games, oregon not, the full conception of the sixth publication successful the deed YA series, The Same Backward arsenic Forward, volition nary uncertainty propulsion you in. Allowing you to work Hannah Rooney’s broadside of the communicative earlier virtually flipping the publication implicit to acquisition Tobias Hawthorne II’s, you tin really work it backwards oregon forwards depending connected your idiosyncratic preference. There is nary close oregon incorrect mode to bask the unsocial layout

As for the story, Hannah’s managed to support her caput down and debar the dodgy dealings of her notorious transgression family, portion Tobias acts precisely similar the entitled heir – to 1 of the country’s richest men – that helium is. That is until 1 tragic night, erstwhile their lives go entwined. When a occurrence connected Hawthorne Island kills her sister and Toby hardly survives, Hannah is enlisted to assistance aft Toby is pulled from the water by a fisherman. But fixed her loss, she is determined to contradict Toby's decease privation by keeping him alive. He’s the past idiosyncratic she should ever make feelings for, but things don’t crook retired that way.

I, Medusa by Ayana Gray

Release date: November 18 (US) - November 20 (UK)

We’ve had immoderate large Greek mythology retellings this twelvemonth – from Hekate by Nikita Gill to Aphrodite by Phoenicia Rogerson – and I, Medusa, focuses on, arsenic you mightiness beryllium able

to archer from the title, 1 of the legends’ astir celebrated figures. Often reduced to a footnote successful idiosyncratic else’s story, Meddy finds herself feeling similar an outcast successful her ain family. So, erstwhile she catches the oculus of the goddess Athena, who invites her to bid arsenic an esteemed priestess successful her temple, Meddy leaps astatine the accidental to spot the satellite and what other is retired there. And she begins to flourish successful her relation arsenic Athena's favoured acolyte

However, erstwhile she is noticed by Poseidon a drunken nighttime betwixt the 2 of them ends successful violence, arsenic does Meddy’s promising future. With her locs turned into snakes arsenic punishment for a transgression that she did not commit, Medusa indispensable larn to clasp a caller identity. This clip she won’t let herself to go a victim, alternatively choosing to reclaim her ain communicative arsenic a mortal, martyr and myth.

Ellis is simply a freelance journalist, based successful the UK, with a emotion of each things books. She besides routinely chairs bookish events up and down the country, getting the scoop from immoderate of the biggest and bestselling authors to support you successful the know.

Originally posted:

Nov 13, 2025 5:00 pm