69 new books coming out November 5 - 18, 2024

Some of the best books coming out this week and next

Heading into the season of family gatherings, a couple of new books on managing those intimate relationships promise to make things a little easier through winter and hopefully beyond… The Little Book of Parenting: How to Nurture Your Child to Their Full Potential by Chinyelo Kunz begins by helping parents set themselves a sturdy emotional foundation, and then proceeds to offer bite-sized takeaways that even the most harried parent will find a way to put to use. Feeding the Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teenagers into Adulthood by Kenneth Wilgus is an updated edition of the 2015 book on how to parent through the teen years into adulthood without losing your relationship with your kid—or any fingers. And for adults who’ve chosen to avoid these challenges entirely, there’s Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children, a survey of women from different parts of the world in different situations who’ve found fulfillment outside of parenthood. And for this in particularly dire situations there’s Surrounded by Liars: How to Stop Half-Truths, Deception, and Gaslighting from Ruining Your Life.

Eve Babitz lived a remarkable life (notably without marrying or having children). She’s the model in the famous photo of Salvador Dali playing chess against a nude young woman. She wrote several semi-fictionalized memoirs about growing up in Hollywood in the 40s and 50s. She designed album covers for 60s music legends Linda Ronstadt, The Byrds, and Buffalo Springfield. Despite all her achievements, most of the press coverage of Babitz during her most creatively active period was about the men she was alleged to be dating. When Babitz died in 2021 at the age of 78, a trove of letters was found that tied her to someone more prestigious than any man at her side: literary lion and fellow chronicler of California, Joan Didion. While the two were often compared in reviews of their work, in Didion & Babitz journalist Lili Anolik weaves a story from these primary sources of two women whose friendship burned brightly and eventually burnt out entirely.

Nick Louth returns with The Last Ride, which is the second book in his new Detective Jan Talantire series, landing just six months after the series kicked off with The Two Deaths of Ruth Lyle.

Jamison Shea’s I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call is the YA horror sequel to last year’s I Feed Her to the Beast.

Nicole Glover’s The Improvisers is a standalone novel set in her Murder & Magic universe, blending historical fiction and magic with a story of a gifted young pilot whose skills are in high demand during the era or prohibition.

More books coming out now

🧰 Help and How-to

Simply Jamie: Fast & Simple Food by Jamie Oliver

Sun-Kissed Cooking: Vegetables Front and Center by Brooke Williamson

Martha: The Cookbook: 100 Favorite Recipes, with Lessons and Stories from My Kitchen by Martha Stewart

Surrounded by Liars: How to Stop Half-Truths, Deception, and Gaslighting from Ruining Your Life by Thomas Erikson

The Little Book of Parenting: How to Nurture Your Child to Their Full Potential by Chinyelu Kunz

Feeding the Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teenagers into Adulthood by Kenneth Wilgus

Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage by Eleanor Vincent

💡 Big Ideas

The Dao De Jing: Laozi's Book of Life: A New Translation from the Ancient Chinese by J H Huang

Sea Bean: A Beachcomber's Search for a Magical Charm—A Memoir by Sally Huband

Religion Is Not Done with You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law by Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Feurst

Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children by Nicole Louie

Guerrilla Warfare: Authoritative, Revised, New Edition by Ernesto Che Guevara

🗣 True Stories

A Sister for Christmas: The true story of one girl’s life-changing decision and a bond like no other by Maggie Hartley

Letters by Oliver Sacks

Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik

Unlovable: A memoir from the voice of Savage Garden by Darren Hayes

Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle Paranque

Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents by Nigel Hamilton

I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir by Youngmi Mayer

Inside Mercedes F1: Life in the Fast Lane by Matt Whyman

Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre by Aaron Mahnke

No Jews Live Here by John Lorinc

💘 Romance

Protecting Wren by Susan Stoker

One Night With You by Carrie Ann Ryan

California Sunsets by Bella Andre

Lost and Lassoed by Lyla Sage

All Folked Up by Penny Reid

Under the Oak Tree: Volume 1 (The Novel) by Suji Kim

Hardly Strangers by A.C. Robinson

🗡️ Crime, Mystery, and Action

To Die For by David Baldacci

The Last Ride by Nick Louth

Clive Cussler Desolation Code by Graham Brown

Last Dance in Salzburg (Miss Ashford Investigates, Book 4) by Vivian Conroy

Walton by Dale Mayer

The Unspoken Truth by MJ White

A Thief's Blood by Douglas Skelton

Guilt and Ginataan by Mia P. Manansala

🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction

Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers

The Crash by Kate Furnivall

Gone with the Penguins by Hazel Prior

The End and the Beginning by K. J. Holdom

Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands

Killing Time by Alan Bennett

The Starlets by Lee Kelly

🩸 Horror

The Taiga Ridge Murders by Skyla Dawn Cameron

Ghost Music by Graham Masterton

I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call by Jamison Shea

The Folly by Gemma Amor

✨ Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction

The Navigator's Children by Tad Williams

Skyshade (The Lightlark Saga Book 3) by Alex Aster

Overcaptain by L. E. Modesitt Jr.

Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez

The Relentless Legion by J. S. Dewes

The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri

The Legacy of Arniston House by T. L. Huchu

Before We Forget Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Revenant-X by David Wellington

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum by Una McCormack

Aim to Misbehave by Rosiee Thor

Breath of Oblivion by Maurice Broaddus

Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction by James Sallis

The Improvisers by Nicole Glover

The Great Library of Tomorrow by Rosalia Aguilar Solace and Steve Aoki

🗯 Manga & Graphic Novels

One-Punch Man, Vol. 29 by ONE

One Piece, Vol. 107 by Eiichiro Oda

I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time, Vol. 4 (light novel) by Mato Kousaka

Please Go Home, Miss Akutsu! Vol. 7 by Taichi Nagaoka

Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 26 by Kenjiro Hata

Kagurabachi, Vol. 1 by Takeru Hokazono

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