Best new release books to check out this month

The best, new release book recommendations for each Bookfinity Reader Type.

November brings a wave of highly anticipated new releases, and Bookfinity is here to guide you through the latest must-reads across every genre. Whether you're a thriller addict, a romance lover, or a fan of nonfiction, this month's lineup has something for every reader. From bestselling authors returning with fresh tales to debut voices making their mark, these books are set to captivate, inspire, and entertain. Be the first to read new books from our curated list of November’s top picks!

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Bookworm

The Story of the Forest

by Linda Grant

A Paste Most Anticipated Historical Fiction for Fall

It's 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter of a Jewish merchant, roams into a forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea looking for mushrooms. Instead, she encounters a gang of unruly, charismatic Bolsheviks--an adventure that will become the stuff of familial lore for generations to come. Intending to save her from further corruption, and in an act that forever changes the trajectory of their family's life, Mina and her eldest brother, Jossel, board a ship to England.

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Serial Reader

Pictures of You

by Paul Hawkins

From the author of the global breakout bestseller, The Last Love Note, comes the story of a young woman struggling to piece her life back together.

When Evie Hudson wakes in an unfamiliar hospital room, she thinks she's fresh out of a teenage party with her best friend, Bree. Except, Bree isn't around anymore and high school was years ago. Evie had just survived the crash that killed her husband, Oliver--whom she can't remember either. After suffering a traumatic loss of memory, she's left to connect the dots. But how?

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Lifelong Learner

Merlin's Tour of the Universe

by Neil Degrassi Tyson

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author

In Neil deGrasse Tyson's delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike. Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy, has observed firsthand many of the major scientific events of Earth's history. Merlin's friends include the most important scientific figures and explorers of all time--da Vinci, Magellan, Newton, Einstein, and Hubble.

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Trendsetter

Variations

by Rebecca Yarros

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Elite ballerina Allie Rousseau is no stranger to pressure. With her mother's eyes always watching, perfection was expected, no matter the cost. But when an injury jeopardizes all she's sacrificed for, Allie returns to her summer home to heal. But the memories she's tried to forget rush in and threaten to take her under.

As a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Hudson Ellis knows that hesitation can mean the difference between life and death. He's always prided himself on being in the right place at the right time, especially when it came to Allie Rousseau...until the night he left for basic.

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Modern Romantic

Triangle

by Danielle Steel

A missing husband and a dress once owned by Princess Diana set two very different women on paths of discovery that will change both their lives forever in this dazzling new novel from the author of The Last Dress from Paris.

England, 2018 Jayne is quiet. She keeps to herself and has no grand expectations for her days. But after a chance encounter with her elderly neighbor, Meredith, Jayne is forced to reevaluate her determination to keep the world at a distance. Meredith's dust-covered home is chaotic and neglected. And slowly, Jayne starts to grasp that Meredith herself is quite lost.

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Dragon Slayer

The Improvisers

by Nicole Glover

For fans of Nghi Vo, P. Djèlí Clark, and Alix E. Harrow

Velma Frye is many things. A pilot, a former bootlegger, a well-seasoned traveler, a jazz pianist...and a wielder of celestial magic. She's also a member of the mystical Rhodes family as well as an investigator for arcane oddities for a magic rights organization, dealing with both simple and complicated cases. And when a pocket watch instigates a magical brawl after one of her flight shows, things become very complicated.

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Stunt Double

An Insignificant Case: A Thriller

by Phillip Margolin

International Bestselling Author

Charlie Webb is a third rate lawyer who graduated from a third rate law-school and, because he couldn't get hired by any of the major law firms, has opened his own law firm, where he gets by handling cases for dubious associates from his youth and some court appointed cases. Described as "a leaky boat floating down the stream of life," Charlie has led unremarkable life, personally and professionally.

Until he's appointed to be the attorney for a decidedly crackpot artist who calls himself Guido Sabatini.

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Young At Heart

Where The Library Hides

by Isabel Ibañez

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Inez Olivera traveled across the world to Egypt, seeking answers into her parents' recent and mysterious deaths. But all her searching led her down a perilous road, filled with heartache, betrayal, and a dangerous magic that pulled her deep into the past.

When Tío Ricardo issues an ultimatum about her inheritance, she's left with only one option to consider.

Marriage to Whitford Hayes.

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Leading Lady

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

by Cher

The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself.

After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir.

Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Spiritual Seeker

The Queen's Cook

by Tessa Afshar

"A tender and touching tale. Tessa Afshar has given us two wonderfully charming heroines."--Angela Hunt, New York Times bestselling author of The Emissaries series

After gaining a position in Queen Esther's kitchens, Roxannah discovers her dream job is fraught with palace intrigue. She must partner with Adin, the Jewish royal physician never far from her thoughts, in a race to save the life of a princess . . . despite the secrets their mission might uncover.

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The Hobbyist

Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso

by Jeremy Egner

Written by New York Times journalist and editor Jeremy Egner, celebrates Ted Lasso's improbable rise and cultural impact.

When Ted Lasso first aired in 2020, nobody--including those who had worked on it--knew how a show inspired by an ad, centered around soccer, filled mostly with unknown actors, and led by a wondrously mustached "nice guy" would be received. Now, eleven Emmys and one Peabody Award later, it's safe to say that the show's status as a pop culture phenomenon is secure.

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Time Traveler

The Liberty Scarf

by Aimie K Runyan, J'nell Ciesielski, & Rachel McMillan

Written by 3 Bestselling Authors

London: As an ambitious scarf maker, Iris Braxton spends her days surrounded by color and luxury not often seen during the dark days of war that promised to be over by Christmas.

Maine: Geneviève Tremblay, a French-Canadian immigrant, is a telephone operator.

Belgium: Clara Janssens, a Flemish Nurse and Alsatian violinist, connects in a Brussels palace-turned-hospital.

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Beach Reader

I Do with You

by Lauren Landish

Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author

Hope Barlowe is a vow away from a lakeside wedding to her high school sweetheart. Next, check off her follow-up dreams: two kids, a dog, a home, and a happy ever after. But suddenly, ever after seems like a very long time. Instead of saying I do, Hope thinks I can't and bolts for the woods--right into the unpredictable life of a handsome tattooed hiker.

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Galactic Guru

An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth

by John Larison

Booker Prize Winning Author

After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk on ground that is in constant motion. When her alluring younger housemate, Tala, disappears, what had begun as an obsession grows into an impulse to kill, forcing the narrator to confront the meaning of the ruptures that have suddenly upended her life.

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Maverick

Genesis

by Henry A. Kissinger

As it absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, AI (Artificial Intelligence) will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality. It might well solve some of the greatest mysteries of our universe and elevate the human spirit to unimaginable heights. But it will also pose challenges on a scale and of an intensity that we have never seen--usurping our power of independent judgment and action, testing our relationship with the divine, and perhaps even spurring a new phase in human evolution.

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World Traveler

The Scapegoat

by Lucy Hughes Hallett

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.

As King James I's favourite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, advisor and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor. A dazzling figure on horseback and a skilful player of the political game, Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power.

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Game Day Hero

Comfort in Darkness

by Rickson Gracie

A masterwork about the art of combat and the invisible powers within us all from Rickson Gracie, the world's greatest Jiu Jitsu fighter and New York Times bestselling author of Breathe

A mythic figure in fighting and a legendary member of the "first family of martial arts," Rickson Gracie is considered the godfather of what we recognize today as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Although Rickson's three decades of total dominance in Jiu Jitsu is astounding, even more astounding is the serenity and spiritual depth of his approach to combat.

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Self-Starter

Never Lead Alone

by Keith Ferrazzi

New York Times Bestselling Author

The world's best teams don't win because of leadership alone. They win because of teamship. Yet when it comes to success, it is leaders who are lauded; too little attention is given to the transformation of the team itself.

We've all but ignored how to extract billions of dollars of shareholder value from the interdependency of talent in teams, Keith Ferrazzi argues. Upgrading teams is one of the least curated and under-leveraged opportunities for success. It is time to focus on teamship.

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Woke Up Like This

I'm Crying Because I'm Crying

by Youngmi Mayer

San Francisco Chronicle's Best New Books of Fall 2024 from stand-up comedian, Youngmi Mayer

Youngmi jokes through the retelling of her childhood as an offbeat biracial kid in Saipan, a place next to a place that Americans might know. She jokes through her difficult adolescence where she must parent her own parents: a mother who married her husband because he looked like white Jesus (and the singer of The Bee Gees). And with humor and irreverence and full-throated openness, she jokes even while sharing the story of what her family went through during the last century of colonialism and war in Korea, while reflecting how years later, their wounds affect her in New York City as a single mom, all the while interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality.

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