47 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out November 2 - 8, 2021
More new eBooks and audiobooks to cuddle up with this week.
A year after the release of her apt-for-2020-titled poetry collection Home Body, Rupi Kaur now brings her readers a pair of audiobook performances of her latest collection as well as The Sun and Her Flowers. Kaur is a poet who rose to fame years ago on Instagram and unleashed a wave of poets using visual social media to present their poetry to the masses, as well as a surge in interest among readers in poetry more broadly. Poetry has historically lagged in audiobook availability, so we hope these audiobooks will follow the earlier pattern of Rupi Kaur’s career and bring in their wake a trend of many more poets recording audio editions of their books.
Comedian Rick Mercer is one of the best-known faces and voices in Canada, owing to his popular “Talking to Americans” segments on the satirical news show, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and the 90-second “rant” segments on The Rick Mercer Report. In his memoir, Talking to Canadians: A Memoir, Mercer opens up for the first time about his life and career, including several false starts and a couple of lucky breaks. Of course this is Rick Mercer, so there are many exquisitely crafted narrative bits that work as well on the page as any rant you can find him delivering on YouTube. And yes, it’s available as an audiobook too.
There are a pair of rom-com novels that may signal the start of a trend, or might be mere coincidence. We’re noting both The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu and Donut Fall in Love by Jackie Lau just to be safe. Both feature hunky Chinese love interests and women who bake donuts. Lau's Donut Fall in Love is set in Toronto and pairs Lindsay, a creative baker, with Ryan, an actor taking some downtime while processing grief. Tieu’s The Donut Trap is about Jasmine, a young woman trapped by her parents’ donut shop and their expectations for her (and the rent hike that threatens the shop’s viability) and her college crush Alex, who certainly throws a wrench in things, but might or might not be Jasmine’s ticket to a life of her own. Which should rom-com fans read? Honestly, like donuts, if you’re going to have one, having another won’t kill you—so read both. And we'll report back if we think there are enough to fill a takeout box.
More books coming out November 2 - 8, 2021
✍ Poetry
- The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
- Home Body by Rupi Kaur
💭 Big Ideas
- Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
- Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans
- Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 by Yuval Noah Harari
- Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy by Frank Schaeffer
- Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King
- Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America by Michael Eric Dyson
- The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing by Dr. Denis Mukwege
🗣 True Stories
- Talking to Canadians: A Memoir by Rick Mercer
- Murder, Madness and Mayhem: Twenty-Five Tales of True Crime and Dark History by Mike Browne
- Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds by Huma Abedin
- A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome by Ariel Henley
- You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn
- Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen
💘 Romance
- Warr by Susan Hayes
- Shopping for a Turkey by Julia Kent
- Simon Says... Jump by Dale Mayer
- The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams
- The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu
- Single Black Female by Tracy Brown
- How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days by K.M. Jackson
- Donut Fall in Love by Jackie Lau
🗡️ Crime, Action, and Mystery
- Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight by Janet Evanovich
- Straight Jack by Diane Capri
- Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas
- Unextracted by Ethan Jones
- The Perfect Veil (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Seventeen) by Blake Pierce
- All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris
- Body and Soul Food by Abby Collette
🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction
- The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
- The Little Shop of Hidden Treasures Part Four by Holly Hepburn
- The Dalai Lama’s Cat Awaken the Kitten Within by David Michie
- The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
- Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
- Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu
- New York, My Village by Uwem Akpan
- Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed by ed. Saraciea J. Fennell
✨ Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
- Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
- Shapers of Worlds Volume II by Edward Willett
- L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 37 by L. Ron Hubbard
- Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: No Guts, No Glory by M.K. England
- A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
- Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix
- The God of Lost Words by A. J. Hackwith
- A Psalm of Storms and Silence by Roseanne A. Brown
- The Veiled Throne by Ken Liu
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