The Best New Books Publishing in November 2025

Bitter Honey: An Emotional Novel of Love, Forgiveness, and Self-Discovery Spanning Continents and Generations, Unraveling the Complex Bonds of Motherhood and the Struggles of Identity
by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström William Morrow, 11/04/2025 1978: A scholarship draws Nancy from Gambia's warmth into Stockholm's frigid winter. When her friendship with charismatic scholar Lars ...more

Lightbreakers: A Novel
by Aja Gabel Riverhead Books, 11/04/2025 In the beginning, there was happiness. Maya, an artist obsessed with the nature of beauty, and Noah, a quantum physicist preoccupied by the mysteries ...more

Every Moment Was You: Notes on Loving and Parting
by Taewoan Ha Harper, 11/18/2025 Every Moment Was You is a deeply moving collection of poems and lyrical essays about the beauty of youth and the pain that comes with transitioning ...more

I, Medusa: A Novel
by Ayana Gray Random House, 11/18/2025 Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else's story. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters and her parents—both ...more

The Book of Women's Friendship
by Rachel Cooke W.W. Norton & Company, 11/18/2025 As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel Housekeeping, "having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house." Bringing ...more

The Botanist's Assistant
by Peggy Townsend Berkley Books, 11/18/2025 Plenty of people consider Margaret Finch odd. Six-feet-tall and big-boned, she lives alone in a small cabin in the woods, drives a 20-year-old truck, ...more