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STAFF PICKS

Staff-recommended reading and viewing for NOVEMbER 2024.

Check back each month for a new list.  Also check out our Goodreads Group for reviews, online bookclubs, and more!

 

Human Acts

Things Don't Break on Their Own

The Mayflower

The Dispossessed

Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me

The Vegetarian

Polar Vortex

Wonderbook

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Probably Ruby

PREVIOUS STAFF PICKS

  • October 2024
    • Gideon the Ninth
    • We Do This ‘Til We Free Us
    • The Night Guest
    • The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes
    • This Close to Okay
    • The Sunset Years of Agnes
    • Listen for the Lie
    • If We Burn
    • Mister Magic
    • Wyrd Sisters
  • September 2024
    • Lessons for Survival
    • Leviathan Wakes
    • My Lady Jane
    • Motherless Daughters
    • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    • A Sorceress Comes to Call
    • The Tainted Cup
    • Fervor
    • Fusion Strategy
  • August 2024
    • Today Will Be Different
    • Against the Loveless World
    • Octavia's Brood
    • Orientalism
    • Garden Spells
    • Pure America
    • The Perks of Loving a Wallflower
    • Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
    • The Golden Spoon
  • July 2024
    • Icarus
    • We Were the Lucky Ones
    • Agatha Christie
    • A Stranger in the House
    • Wonder
    • Cut Loose!
    • Filterworld
    • Mercury
    • Slow Down
    • Old Crimes
  • June 2024
    • Gender Queer
    • The Villa
    • Text Me When You Get Home
    • Hero of Two Worlds
    • Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
    • Is This Normal?
    • Wild Things
    • The Reign of Wolf 21
    • Daisy Darker
    • I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
  • May 2024
    • The Little Red Chairs
    • The Sympathizer
    • The Postman Always Rings Twice
    • A Most Agreeable Murder
    • Ace
    • Thelma the Unicorn
    • Your House Will Pay
    • We All Want Impossible Things
    • The Fetishist
    • Swiss Vendetta
  • April 2024
    • The Silent Patient
    • A Friend for Henry
    • Solitaire
    • Riding Freedom
    • The Hanged Man of Conakry
    • Paris
    • What Red Was
    • Come As You Are
    • A Kind of Spark
    • A Kind of Spark
    • Murder is A Piece of Cake
  • March 2024
    • Night Side of the River
    • She-Hulk
    • The Final Girl Support Group
    • Bath Haus
    • Brooklyn
    • The Bee Sting
    • Women Talking
    • Brave the Wild River
    • Dark Earth
    • A Court of Mist and Fury
  • February 2024
    • It Happened on Saturday
    • The Consequences
    • Hyberbole and a Half
    • My Brother's Husband
    • The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
    • Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
    • White Bird
    • The Count of Monte Cristo
    • Wild and Distant Seas
    • The Revolutionary Temper
  • January 2024
    • A Rip Through Time
    • Rebecca
    • Better Late Than Never
    • A Woman Is No Man
    • This Is Major
    • Foster
    • Village of Secrets
    • Extremely Online
    • Lady Tan's Circle of Women
    • Bookshops & Bonedust
  • December 2023
    • Dog On It
    • The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
    • We Spread
    • The Woman In Me
    • Eight Dates and Nights
    • Emily of New Moon
    • Atomic Habits
    • Blackmail and Bibingka
    • Unbroken
    • Death Valley
  • November 2023
    • The Luminaries
    • The Werewolf of Paris
    • Motherthing
    • The Sentence
    • Winter Counts
    • The Last House on Needless Street
    • Every Heart a Doorway
    • Victory City
    • Our Best Intentions
    • Someone Else's Shoes
  • October 2023
    • Solito
    • Sabrina & Corina
    • Masters of Death
    • Godkiller
    • Juniper & Thorn
    • I'll Give You The Sun
    • The Skin and Its Girl
    • When Crack Was King
    • The Monsters We Defy
    • Why We Meditate
  • September 2023
    • Olga Dies Dreaming
    • Raw Dog
    • We See Each Other
    • Kaiju
    • Thornhedge
    • Bookworm
    • Mr. Mercedes
    • The Tiger Rising
    • My Murder
    • Winter Counts
  • August 2023
    • The Librarianist
    • The Appeal
    • The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
    • 56 Days
    • The Splendid and the Vile
    • Pretty Young Rebel
    • Ride-Or-Die
    • The Woman in the Library
    • The Virgin Suicides
    • Spinning
  • June 2023
    • The Myth of Normal
    • Spare
    • This Other Eden
    • Shrek!
    • The Change
    • This Delicious Death
    • Station Eleven
    • Heartbroke
    • D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
    • Lore Olympus
  • May 2023
    • Alias Anna
    • The Measure
    • We Were Witches
    • The Waiting
    • The Man Who Died Twice
    • Dial A for Aunties
    • Dear Child
    • Call Down the Hawk
    • Chrysanthemum
    • Heart of the Sun Warrior
  • April 2023
    • Paper Girls
    • Girls Like Me
    • Cursed Bunny
    • A Thousand Times
    • Black Cake
    • American Royalty
    • The God of Endings
    • An American Sunrise
    • How Moon Fuentez
  • March 2023
    • mad honey
    • fruiting bodies
    • the feminine mystique
    • my grandmother's hands
    • the color of water
    • american fire
    • get it together
    • thousand cranes
    • just as i am
    • forest walking
  • February 2023
    • The Marrow Thieves
    • The Snow Child
    • This Is How It Always Is
    • Writers & Lovers
    • The Book Eaters
    • The Cabinet
    • Wish You Were Here
    • Stony the Road
    • The Never Tilting World
    • Investing 101
  • January 2023
    • sweetgrass
    • years
    • magic
    • winter
    • time
    • text
    • sokcho
    • dancing
    • nightcrawling
    • daughter
  • December 2022
    • snail
    • starless
    • defy
    • south
    • naked
    • lore
    • vegan
    • afong
    • indians
    • bee
  • November 2022
    • everything
    • collector
    • king
    • first
    • there
    • crawdads
    • caleb's
    • heroines
    • departures
    • haunting
  • October 2022
    • well
    • witch
    • inheritance
    • highway
    • mexican
    • eyre
    • house
    • honey
    • castle
    • witch
  • September 2022
    • dirt
    • delphine
    • heaven
    • tea
    • alice
    • sit
    • history
    • yes
    • apprentice
    • korean
  • August 2022
    • brooklyn
    • artcurious
    • nettle
    • broken
    • rare
    • maud
    • fascism
    • girls
    • psalm
    • wahala
  • July 2022
    • kaikeyi
    • brass
    • sleepless
    • precious
    • bomb
    • bluest
    • westaway
    • damnation
    • nimona
    • fevered
  • June 2022
    • immune
    • lesser
    • lemon
    • braid
    • cerulean
    • legion
    • fencing
    • peace
  • May 2022
    • talk
    • famine
    • well
    • eragon
    • breasts
    • molly
    • love
    • gates
    • amsterdam
    • edge
  • April 2022
    • true
    • chouette
    • seek
    • heartstopper
    • sophia
    • chernobyl
    • one-straw
    • rage
    • hatmakers
    • edge
  • March 2022
    • psalm
    • jade
    • code
    • queen
    • pachinko
    • yolk
    • angels
    • papi
    • theater
    • period
  • February 2022
    • woods
    • place
    • oliphant
    • squad
    • ringquist
    • quanders
    • almost
    • covid
    • systems
    • jane
  • January 2022
    • nothing
    • girl
    • pick
    • skye
    • creature
    • hating
    • coat
    • war
  • December 2021
    • Just Mercy
    • Crying in H Mart
    • Road Ends
    • Whodunit crime puzzles
    • Catwings
    • Prianesi
    • Interior Chinatown
    • Smoke
    • Broke in America
    • Hunt, Gather, Parent
  • November 2021
    • city baker's
    • three women
    • devi
    • betty
    • wounded knee
    • unsettled ground
    • migrations
    • small pleasures
    • circe
    • trio
  • October 2021
    • Thursday
    • Guest
    • Frangipani
    • Broken
    • Plot
    • Luck
    • Nowhere
    • Huddle
    • Being
    • Said
  • September 2021
    • Dolly
    • tree
    • epic
    • tiger
    • ban
    • emotion
    • forest
    • mindful
    • twelve
    • shop
  • August 2021
    • thick
    • among
    • vanessa
    • coffee
    • elephant
    • space
    • librarian
    • summer
  • July 2021
    • sigh
    • maiden
    • audre
    • rosaline
    • alligator
    • dust
    • aardvark
    • distraction
    • hex
  • June 2021
    • dead
    • Cerulean Sea
    • Stamped
    • One to watch
    • Maud Dixon
    • Goodbye
    • lamplighters
    • Hmart
    • Maine
    • Cemetery boys
  • May 2021
    • darker
    • feather
    • death
    • save
    • stewards
    • vegetarian
    • face
    • traitor
    • six
    • super
  • April 2021
    • bird
    • never
    • evelyn
    • door
    • fox
    • poem
    • hill
    • rosy
    • mountain
    • greenwood
  • March 2021
    • lovecraft
    • something
    • agatha
    • swim
    • blackout
    • plow
    • rage
    • talk
    • ends
    • men in kilts
  • January/February 2021
    • spell bound
    • Riviera gold
    • That Time of Year
    • Wind
    • braiding
    • curse
    • lost queen
    • Rambling
    • maybe
    • color law
  • December 2020
    • women
    • memory
    • dickens
    • world
    • owl
    • group
    • witches
    • mill
    • foe
    • freedom
  • November 2020
    • Leonard and Hungry Paul : a novel
    • Barnaby Mayne
    • A song below water
    • Seven lies
    • The kitchen god's wife
    • My name is Resolute
    • Loving
    • A children's bible : a novel
    • Stand up straight and sing!
    • slave's cause
  • September 2024
    • October 2020
      • Lockwood
      • Turn Key
      • Knife
      • Watch
      • Pull Stars
      • Spotlights
      • Lacks
      • Weather
      • Run Eat
      • Starless
    Last updated: October 2024