New month, new books! Book Light is our Dandelion Chandelier curated list of the most-anticipated new book releases every month, and next up is November 2021. If you ask us, the ideal November read is a cornucopia of marvelous elements. Seemingly too much but ultimately just enough. So what are the best new books coming out in November 2021? Previously, we’ve shared our picks for the best fall reads this year. But – wait – there’s more! Our intrepid team kept exploring, and here’s what we found: 15 cool new books with rave reviews we can’t wait to read in November 2021, including novels and non-fiction.
what are the most-anticipated new book releases for November 2021?
Wondering what to read in November 2021 among all the new novels and new non-fiction books?
new novels and poetry releases in November 2021
The new fiction highlights this month include a new novel from Louise Erdich and a debut collection of short stories by Lily King. A buzzed-about debut from podcast co-host Freya Marske. And a new novel from Gary Shteyngart.
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new non-fiction book releases in November 2021
The non-fiction shelves will be graced in November by a new essay collection from Ann Patchett. There’s a new memoir from Will Smith and an entertaining history of skiing in America.
The best new books and book releases, fiction and non-fiction, in November 2021.
15 of the best new books coming in November 2021
Here’s our pick of what to read from the crop of eagerly anticipated new book releases coming in November 2021. The best books from a range of genres, including novels, essay collections, and non-fiction. You can pre-order them now if you like.
The best new books and book releases, fiction and non-fiction, in November 2021.
New book releases on November 2, 2021
1. Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu.
The author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies returns with Blue-Skinned Gods, a heartfelt tale of magical realism. In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. He becomes the economic engine of this his family, as pilgrims seek the child’s blessings – believing him to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. Sadly, as he matures, his family unravels. Ultimately the boy (now a young man) journeys to New York City in search of his true identity.
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2. A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske.
The highly anticipated debut novel A Marvellous Light is penned by the co-host of the Hugo Award-nominated podcast Be the Serpent. In an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies, a young man is accidentally named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society. There, he discovers what’s been operating beneath the quotidian reality he’s always known.
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3. Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart.
The author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a highly topical work of fiction. Here’s the elevator pitch for his new novel, Our Country Friends: “March 2020. Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation.” It’s the first COVID-19 quarantine literary novel that we know of. And we are quite eager to read it.
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4. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak.
The author of one of our favorite books, The Daughters of Eve, returns with The Island of Missing Trees, a new story of young love challenged by time and circumstance.
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New book releases on November 9, 2021
5. The Sentence by Louise Erdich.
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novelist is back with one of the most anticipated new novels of November 2021. The Sentence centers on a ripped-from-the-headlines plot set in Minneapolis in the year immediately following the murder of George Floyd and the outbreak of COVID-19. A small independent bookstore specializing in works by Indigenous authors is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer, Flora. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading “with murderous attention,” must solve the mystery of this haunting. At the same time, she tries to make sense of all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
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6. Five Tuesdays In Winter by Lily King.
Five Tuesdays in Winter is King’s debut collection of short stories, and like many of her novels, the works address the fraught issues of love, desire, violence and the difficulty of holding onto female ambitions and dreams. We enter a wide range of settings in this collection. A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. Two college roommates have a devastating middle-aged reunion. A proud old man rages powerlessly in his granddaughter’s hospital room. And a writer receives a visit from all the men who have tried to suppress her voice. We love almost everything King has ever written, so we are All In on this one.
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7. Will by Will Smith, with Mark Manson.
We all think we know Will Smith because we watched him grow from being a fresh-faced discovery in “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” to an action hero to the father of a new kind of celebrity, and even an “overweight Dad” who puts on a few pounds during the Great Lockdown. But in Will, he tells his true story, starting with his childhood in West Philadelphia. It’s quite a journey, and he’s a wonderful navigator.
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8. Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow by Heather Hansman.
Powder Days is the perfect amuse bouche for those of us who can’t wait for ski season to begin. The author is a journalist whose beat is skiing and snow sports, and thanks to her insider’s perspective, we learn about the little-known history of skiing in America. And get a peek into the modern heart of ski-bum culture from someone who knows it first-hand. Along the way, she reckons with skiing’s impact on the environment, and investigates how the sport is evolving in the face of climate change.
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New book releases on November 16, 2021
9. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Created by investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and in partnership with The New York Times Magazine, The 1619 Project is a compilation of Jones’ Pulitzer Prize-winning articles about the legacy of slavery in America. The collection includes essays, poems, and works of fiction written by various authors, each chronicling how the institution of slavery and racism has evolved over time.
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10. Annie Leibovitz: Wonderland by Annie Leibovitz with a foreword by Anna Wintour.
‘Looking back at my work, I see that fashion has always been there,’ Annie Leibovitz observes in the preface to Wonderland. This new volume contains 350 images (many of them previously unpublished). They comprise a wide and diverse range of subjects: Nicole Kidman, Serena Williams, Pina Bausch, RuPaul, Cate Blanchett, Lady Gaga, Kate Moss, Rihanna and more.
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11. Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies By Catherine McCormack.
Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies is a fascinating and enlightening work on how women have been portrayed by male artists and creatives in the West. From Western art to images in advertising, social media and fashion photography, the author – a British art historian – challenges the idea of women as “mothers, monsters and maidens.” And showcases the female artists who have a very different definition of what it means to be a woman.
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12. Death & Co Welcome Home: [A Cocktail Recipe Book] by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, David Kaplan, Devon Tarby (Editor) and Tyson Buhler (Editor).
Death & Co Welcome Home arrives just in time for the holiday entertaining season. It’s a guide to choosing ingredients, developing your palate, mixing drinks, and leveling up your home cocktail game—with more than 600 recipes delivered in a friendly and encouraging manner. They range from classics to low-ABV and nonalcoholic cocktails to hundreds of signature creations developed by the Death & Co team.
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13. The Next Supper: The End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After by Corey Mintz.
If you’re wondering about what life will look like on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic, the new non-fiction book The Next Supper penned by a freelance food reporter for several prominent publications provides some startling answers as they relate to eating out and food delivery. The author asserts that everything about the restaurant business is changing, for better or worse.
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New book releases on November 23, 2021
14. These Precious Days by Ann Patchett.
The bestselling author of the beloved Bel Canto and The Dutch House turns to non-fiction. These Precious Days is an essay collection that explores the myriad ways in which even a novelist can be surprised by life. “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming.
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New book releases on November 30, 2021
15. Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult.
In Wish You Were Here, the bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Great Small Things imagines a situation in which the coronavirus is only beginning and a young woman decides to take a long-planned trip to the Galapagos Islands even as the scourge of COVID-19 is spreading across the globe.
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16. Dava Shastri’s Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti.
In what sounds like a perfect plot for a fun read, the set-up for Dava Shastri’s Last Day is irresistible. “A 70-year old dying billionaire matriarch leaks news of her death early so she can examine her legacy—a decision that horrifies her children and inadvertently exposes secrets she has spent a lifetime keeping.” Nothing further needed – we are all in.
BUY NOW: $19.69.
17. Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles by Lydia Davis.
Essays Two collects Davis’s writings and speeches on the profession she is less known for: working as a translator from French into English. Well known as a winner of the Booker Prize for fiction, this book is a revelation of her skill and insight in the work of capturing the essence of a great writer’s voice in a different language. She has won praise from the literary world for her translations of Proust, Flaubert and Michel Leiris, among others. In an account of an extended visit to the French city of Arles, she spins entertaining stories of learning Norwegian, Dutch, and Spanish through reading and translation. Wow.
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most anticipated releases of new novels and non-fiction books in November 2021
Those are our picks for what to read this month: 17 of the best and most anticipated new novels and non-fiction book releases coming in November 2021. So many options to answer the pressing matter of what to read in November 2021 . . . What’s at the top of your list? Whatever you decide, stay safe and have a good month, dear reader.
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