Autumn is fully underway and you know I love it. It is however always a slow month for new releases (which I always find wild in the lead up to Christmas). But there’s definitely some great ones here! It’s definitely the perfect time to pick up a book being the National Year of Reading too, we’re ready to Go All In!
Just tap on the titles to get more info from Bookshop.org and to support my work. Or if you prefer an audiobook, then I’d definitely recommend Libro.fm!
Womanhood – Tahmina Begum. Non-Fiction: Memoir. Hardback. HB. Following the lives of three South Asian Muslim women, we follow at crossroads with themes of heritage, religion and more. Publish date: 05/11.
Lightbreakers – Aja Gabel. Literary. Paperback. Time travel funded by an eccentric billionaire, what could go wrong? Publish date: 05/11.
Quixotic Fixtures: Notes on Transformation – Irenosen Okojie. Non-Fiction: Essays. Hardback. A collection of essays focusing on trauma in the body and regeneration of the mind. Publish date: 05/11.
The Keeper of Magical Things – Julie Leong. Fantasy. Paperback. A Cosy, sapphic fantasy featuring witches talking to inanimate objects. Publish date: 05/11.
Fire in Every Direction – Tareq Baconi. Non-Fiction: Memoir. Paperback. A queer coming of age memoir, featuring the Palestinian authors displacement from Haifa. Publish date: 05/11.
Pillaging the Dead – Degol Hailu. Literary. Hardback. “Darkly comic and propulsive”. A university student sells banned books but gets caught in a raid. Publish date: 05/11.
Ten Lives – Mona Chalabi. Non-Fiction: Sociology. Hardback. Ten lives are gollowed to show how wealth, and the lack of it, shape lives. Publish date: 12/11.
A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang – Lee Onhwa, Slin Jung. Literary. Paperback. After taking over the shop after her grandma passes, it’s true business is revealed. Publish date: 12/11. Publish date: 12/11.
Enchanting the Fae Queen – Stephanie Burgis. Fantasy. Paperback. The next romantasy in the Queens in the Villainy series. Publish date: 12/11.
We Belong to the Trees – Keletso Mopai. Literary. Paperback. Set in post apartheid Africa, the death of a security guard ripples through the community. Publish date: 12/11.
An Edge Sharp Enough – Jesse Qu. Sutanto. Fantasy. Hardback. From the author of Dial A for Aunties comes her fantasy debut, with assassins and more in a race to save the world. Publish date: 17/11.
Heir of the Shadow – Marvellous Michael Anson. Fantasy. Hardback. Sequel to Firstborn of the Sun, a series steeped in Yoruba and Nigerian mythology. Publish date: 26/11.
Have you planned to pick any of these up? I’d love to know!
If you like what you’ve read and would like to access more content, we have a cosy reading community over on patreon . If you love a bookish giveaway and learning about all the new releases, we’d love to have you with us. It’s perfect for those looking for community and connection in the online space. You can also find more content on my Instagram here.
And don’t forget to check out my other blogs and reviews – you can find books with similar themes in the same folder link below, or click back onto blogs to see the whole offering.
Last updated 04/11/2026
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