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November's Biggest New Book Releases!

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Halloween has come and gone and so now turn our gaze to the books we plan on reading all November long.

Books mentioned in this episode

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Witches are Coming by Lindy West

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White

Little Weirds by Jenny Slate

Beard Necessities by Penny Reid

All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney

Sisters of Shadow and Light by Sara B. Larson

The Innocents by Michael Crummey

The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan

The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

It's Garry Shandling's Book by Judd Apatow

The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Mary Toft; or, the Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer

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