All year I show restraint and then November happens – Nonfiction November, Novella November, and German Literature Month – it means my TBR stack EXPLODES.

First, nonfiction picks:

From Volatile Rune – All The Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
From Readerbuzz – I Never Thought of it That Way by Monica Guzmán
Entering the Enchanted Castle – Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
The Intrepid Angeleno – Give Me One Wish by Jacquie Gordon
Books Please – Ultra Processed People by Chris van Tulleken and The Dancing Bear by Frances Faviell
Lisa Notes – I Didn’t Sign Up For This by Dr. Tracy Dalgelish
Entering the Enchanted Castle – The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
Book’d Out – Comfort Women by Han Seong-Won

And novellas to add for next year:

From Bookish Beck – Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt; Crudo by Olivia Laing; Eggs in Purgatory by Genanne Walsh
From The Intrepid Angeleno – Passing by Nella Larson
From Reading in Bed – McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
From Laura Tisdall – Boulder by Eva Baltasar
From ANZ Litlovers – The Sea & Us by Catherine de Saint Phalle; Night Blue by Angela O’Keefe; and Siblings by Brigitte Reimann (which also goes on the German Lit list).