Hey there, bookworms 📚✨
As the leaves change color and the air gets crisper, there’s no better time to snuggle up with a good book and a warm drink. So, I’ve got an exciting November reading picks for you, along with some fantastic book recommendations to make your autumn even cozier.
Book Recommendations for Cozy Autumn Evenings 🍁📚 You can find all books on my Amazon Storefront here.
- “The Leftover Woman” by Jean Kwok: Eye-opening look at China’s controversial One Child Policy but this story is so much more than that. The author draws an artful and affecting tale, as seen through the eyes of an undocumented immigrant versus a person of privilege, that feels both thoughtful and thought-provoking.
- “The Other Princess” by Denny Bryce: A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in Victorian England—based on the real-life story of a recently rediscovered historical figure, Sarah Forbes Bonetta.
- “The Woman in Me” by Britney Spears: Written with remarkable candor and humor, Britney’s book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of telling her own story, on her own terms.
- “Absolution” by Alice McDermott: The wives of two American men stationed in Vietnam in 1963 are brought to the forefront. It’s the story of their lives during a very tumultuous year as these two with very different personalities come together to try and help the Vietnamese people around them. The story also moves to sixty years later with the reappearance of a Vietnam vet that they knew when they were in Saigon and they look back on their time there.
- “Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones” by Dolly Parton: Dolly shares the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion, including how she developed her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared her to fans around the world.
- “Cross-Stitch” by Jazmina Barrera: A debut novel of female friendship and coming-of-age. Childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the England of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés and crushes, but not the early signs that they are each steadily, inevitably changing.
- “While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students” by J Reuben Appelman: Exploring the behind the scenes in the murder investigation. Moscow, Idaho had not had a murder for the previous seven years when four college students were murdered in November 2022. Appelman adeptly covers the media reaction, arm chair sleuths, and the digital investigation into many social media sites of the victims as well as potential suspects.
- “1984 Julia” by Sandra Newman: A brilliant retelling of George Orwell’s 1984 from the point of view of Winston Smith’s Lover, Julia.
- “The Local Woman Missing” by Mary Kubica: Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold.
Remember, reading is all about enjoyment, so don’t stress over it. The goal is to make your reading experience this month feel a little more special and in tune with the season.
Feel free to share your reading progress, book recommendations, or your own cozy reading nooks with the community in the comments. Let’s make this November a page-turner to remember!
Happy reading, my fellow book-lovers. 📖🍂🎃
Warmly, Nathaly 📚💫
