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November New Book Releases!

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It's that time again! Our heroes journey out to the land of pre-pub books and offer up the ones their most excited about coming out in November. Come along, won't you!

November Releases mentioned in this episode

The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg

Breaking Free: How I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs by Rachel Jeffs

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

What Unites Us by Dan Rather

Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age by Leslie Berlin

Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner

Artemis by Andy Weir

Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks by Stephen Davis

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe by Deborah Cadbury

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Dark Asylum by E.S. Thomson

The End We Start From by Megan Hunter

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young

It's All Relative by A. J. Jacobs

PBN Classics book suggestions in honor of National Novel Writing Month:

Water for Elephants

The Night Circus

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