The 19 Must-Read Books Coming in November 2026

Release date: November 3

A minimally verbal woman in 1999 working-class London falls in love with a volatile man, whose singular, brutal act of violence threatens to define the rest of her life in this powerful, disturbing novel.

Release date: November 3

A psychoanalytic exploration of the fracturing of a self, this novel traces the life of a Mexican girl sent to live with her uncle in the Midwest to protect her from her mother’s mental illness. But her trips to her home country for extended summers leave her feeling like she is bifurcated—a feeling that becomes more pressing when she learns her father isn’t who she thought.

Release date: November 3

Set on an idyllic, rugged Maine island and chock-full of emotional gravitas, this cinematic debut novel follows Egan and Lucian, identical twin brothers who, over the years, each become romantically entangled with the same woman.

Release date: November 10

Gabriel Bump’s third novel is a personal, meditative story following David, a recent grad school grad who escapes academic Michigan to snowy, working-class Buffalo to live with his cousin Flip, whose life is even more unsteady.

Release date: November 10

Following a high school quarterback who gets embroiled in a crime and subsequent cover-up, this neo-noir examines small-town America, hero worship, and what happens when those up on a wall, inevitably, well, fall.

Release date: November 10

Feminist journalist Kylie Cheung’s truly original psychothriller follows an elite team of superheroes descending upon the world. Their mission? To protect it. But one criminology researcher isn’t so sure about the pack until their charismatic frontman rescues her...and conveniently keeps showing up whenever she increasingly seems to be in danger.

Release date: November 10

This totally sexy, striking debut follows Annie, a burnt-out burlesque dancer who drives from the Midwest to Alaska in a borrowed Buick LeSabre when her mother, who abandoned her as a baby, reaches out to her on her deathbed.

Release date: November 10

This hopeful, tense, and timely novel centers on Dalia, a second-generation U.K. immigrant and mother who meets Hajira, a refugee seeking asylum. Dalia offers to take Hajira and her family into her home—but the gesture becomes complicated when Dalia realizes that, to really help, she must reckon with what she’s willing to risk.

Release date: November 17

Written under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell, “the first woman ever to play in the National Hockey League,” literary provocateur Don DeLillo’s raunchy fictional sports memoir novel is being republished for the first time in nearly half a century—so it will be the first time most people can ever get their hands on a copy. Thank you, Heated Rivalry, for your influence.

Release date: November 17

Elliot Page counts himself among fans of this gripping, class-conscious novel about work, aging and motherhood. In it, a 35-year-old nanny decides to have a baby, exposing her to new kinds of brutality, gossip, occupational hazards, and past childhood trauma that so conveniently rears its head, tangling everything further.

Release date: November 24

Deepfakes, the manosphere and India’s caste system are the grime- and glitter-streaked revolving doors of this brash and electric novel. A young Indian woman named Amrita’s cosmopolitan London life is upended when a deepfake pornographic video of her goes viral, and the Hindu incel manosphere comes for her.

Release date: November 10

After Rim, a Moroccan teenager, is caught smoking cigarettes, her mother demands she prove her virginity with a gynecological test. Instead, she rebels and finds her own way to navigate patriarchal culture in this moving, autobiographical coming-of-age novel.

Release date: November 10

An award-winning Spanish author’s first book translated into English, this glittering psychological coming-of-age thriller has it all: a custody battle, South Florida, and early-aughts sleaze.

Release date: November 3

As the daughter of one of N.Y.C.’s prominent wine families, James-Beard-Award-winning writer Tarajia Morrell knows pleasure—and this memoir has plenty of it, from gustatory delights like ceviche in Uruguay or a perfect plum to sonic ones like the ‘90s New York club scene.

Release date: November 3

This political treatise excavates the wide-ranging possibilities of Palestine’s future, both exploring the fallout across the world of the ongoing genocide and imagining what a free Palestine could look like.

Release date: November 10

Speaking of the N.Y.C. club scene! This vivacious, glitzy, and gritty memoir by photographer Jessica Craig-Martin traces her life growing up as the daughter of young, broke artists between London and New York in the ‘70s and ‘80s, where she did everything from sipping tea with David Hockney to selling smoked eel to Jean-Michel Basquiat while working as a cashier at the newly opened Dean & DeLuca.

Release date: November 17

This comprehensive deep dive into the porn industry builds on five years of investigative reporting to explore the pervasiveness of what everyone is watching, but no one is talking about, taking the reader from Playboy and Deep Throat to OnlyFans and PornHub.

Release date: November 17

Deeply uncomfortable and embarrassingly relatable, Sarah Haas’s memoir explores how jealousy seeped into every milestone of her relationship and asks what we can learn—and even gain—from the green-eyed monster.