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Our Top 10 books of the month

The top releases of November include wonderful new titles from Alan Hollinghurst and Andre Aciman, plus two standout genre debuts.
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Book jacket image for The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami’s latest masterwork, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, is a moving meditation on the price of isolation, the nourishment of stories and how

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Book jacket image for Big Breath In by John Straley

John Straley’s nonstop, high-octane Big Breath In introduces the unforgettable Delphine, a 68-year-old cancer patient-turned-investigator.

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Book jacket image for Custodians of Wonder by Eliot Stein

Eliot Stein’s vivid Custodians of Wonder documents the last people maintaining some of the world’s ancient cultural traditions, and proves that comfort, community and beauty

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Stopping by Jungle on a Snowy Evening is a rare find. It’s a combo of old and new, clever and classic, innovative and familiar—perfect for

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Book jacket image for The Close-Up by Pip Drysdale

World-weary and distinctively jaded, The Close-Up is a fantastic, Los Angeles-set neo-noir.

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Book jacket image for The Cure for Women by Lydia Reeder

Lydia Reeder celebrates the female physician who debunked sexist Victorian-era medicine in The Cure for Women.

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Book jacket image for The Icon and the Idealist by Stephanie Gorton

The Icon and the Idealist is a compelling, warts-and-all dual biography of the warring leaders of the early 20th-century birth control movement: Margaret Sanger and

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Book jacket image for The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter

Ally Carter’s The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year is a vastly entertaining rom-com/mystery hybrid.

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Book jacket image for Time of the Child by Niall Williams

Niall Williams demonstrates his genius for making you laugh out loud while breaking your heart at the same time in Time of the Child, his

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Book jacket image for Visitations by Corey Egbert

Visitations is a haunting, complex memoir about religion, mental illness and broken families, told through the eyes of a young boy.

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