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November 1, 2023By Erin Somers

November Picks

November 1, 2023By Erin Somers

Reese Witherspoon chose Maybe Next Time by Cesca Major as her November book club pick, announced early and informally at a Hello Sunshine conference. Published in March, the book has had initial print sales of well under a thousand copies. Witherspoon’s company optioned the book for development as an Apple Original Film in March.

 

Amazon‘s Best Books of the Month are:

The Berry Pickers, by Amanda Peters
Iron Flame (The Empyrean Book 2), by Rebecca Yarros
Among the Bros, by Max Marshall
The Other Half, by Charlotte Vassell
Gator Country, by Rebecca Renner
The Future, by Naomi Alderman (Available to sample now in our Buzz Books anthology)
Absolution, by Alice McDermott
Again and Again, by Jonathan Evison
Class, by Stephanie Land
Resurrection Walk, by Michael Connelly

 

The Barnes & Noble National Book Club selection for November is Absolution by Alice McDermott.

Their monthly picks are:

Mystery & Thriller: The Paleontologist, by Luke Dumas
Nonfiction: The Storyteller, by Dave Grohl
Fiction: Flight, by Lynn Steger Strong
Speculative Fiction Pick: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, by Heather Fawcett
YA: The Feeling of Falling in Love, by Mason Deaver
Young Reader: The Ogress and the Orphans, by Kelly Barnhill

Filed Under: Book Picks, Free

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