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November 2025
A WOMAN’S FIRE NEEDS KINDLING – FICTION
Ada Calhoun’s Crush: A Novel is a sharp, funny, and seductive story of what happens when one-half of a couple urges the other to address the labels of “husband” and “wife” – kicking off a surprising journey of sex, heartbreak, and heart rekindling. In Hannah Pittard’s If You Love It, Let It Kill You: A Novel, a novelist learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominently in her ex-husband’s debut novel. For a week,…
SLAVERY, CIVIL WAR & SATAN – FICTION
Dennard Dayle’s How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel is a satire of the Civil War that follows Anders, a teenage idealist whose shifting roles – from Union flag twirler to Confederate soldier to member of a Black Union regiment – force him to question identity, loyalty, and belonging. Through doomed charges, draft riots, and shifting allegiances, Dayle explores what it meant to be American during the war. In Rickey Fayne’s The Devil Three Times: A Novel,…
COMING OF AGE: NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO & PARTS UNKNOWN – NONFICTION
The Royal We: A Memoir documents Roddy Bottum’s coming of age – and out of the closet. Bottum chronicles his travels from growing up gay without role models in Los Angeles to 1980s San Francisco, where he formed the Grammy-nominated band Faith No More. He went on to tour the world, surviving heroin addiction and the plight of AIDS, and ultimately became a queer icon. Thomas Mallon’s The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries,…
LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE – NONFICTION
In How to Menopause: Take Charge of Your Health, Reclaim Your Life, and Feel Even Better than Before, Tamsen Fadal helps women reclaim confidence, health, and joy during perimenopause and menopause. Drawing on 42 experts, physicians and her own experience, Fadal offers evidence-based tools for symptoms, sleep, sex, style, and workplace challenges, creating a practical, empowering guide for women entering their “bolden” years. In Unbreakable: A Woman’s Guide to Aging with Power, Dr. Vonda Wright, M.D.,…