The arrival of dark evenings and rainy days calls for one thing: curling up with a good book. With the weather raging outside, an easy way to gain some calm is to surround yourself with the comforting company of a novel. Whether that means nestling up with a blanket on the sofa or tucking up in bed under your duvet, losing yourself in new reading material is exactly what you need to unwind this winter.Team R29 has put together a selection of the best new books on the block this November to save you wandering around a bookshop for hours. Last month the team devoured titles like Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi, a tale about a strained relationship between a mother and daughter, and Luster by Raven Leilani, which explores the complicated world of open marriages.This month, we’re diving into a number of new reads which promise to be just as compelling, courtesy of writers such as Otegha Uwagba and Tana French. From a cultural commentary on institutional racism and the burden of whiteness on Black people to a detective mystery involving a remote Irish village and long-kept secret, this month’s selection has something for every reader. To discover everything that we're reading this November, click through the slides ahead…Refinery29's selection is purely editorial and independently chosen – we only feature items we love! As part of our business model we do work with affiliates; if you directly purchase something from a link on this article, we may earn a small amount of commission. Transparency is important to us at Refinery29, if you have any questions please reach out to us.Georgia Murray, Fashion EditorBook: Whites by Otegha UwagbaWhy is it your November read? I’m a big fan of Otegha Uwagba’s first release, Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women, and newsletter, Women Who, so I pre-ordered her highly anticipated new book, Whites, as soon as it was announced. Part memoir, part cultural commentary, it started as an essay Uwagba intended to publish sometime in the future. Then the death of George Floyd and the global conversation it sparked led her to piece together decades of her own personal experiences alongside this year’s events to explore the insidious and pervasive mental burden of whiteness. It’s not released until later this month but pre-orders are game-changing for authors, so snap up your copy ahead of time.Otegha Uwagba Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods (Paperback), $, available at WaterstonesJessica Morgan, Staff WriterBook: Girl: Essays on Black Womanhood by Kenya HuntWhy is it your November read? I’ve long looked up to Kenya Hunt, the award-winning journalist who was the first Black deputy editor of ELLE UK and is now the fashion director at Grazia UK. Her debut book, Girl: Essays on Black Womanhood, is a collection of timely and hilarious essays on what it means to be Black, a woman and a mother today. Every essay is brilliant, whether Kenya's sharing her experience of racism in a London black cab, what it's like being the only visible Black woman on fashion’s front row, exploring the realities of motherhood or investigating the word 'woke'. There are fantastic contributions from other writers too, including Candice Carty-Williams and Funmi Fetto. I blitzed through Girl in two days and every page made me feel seen, heard and understood, and gave me the fire in my belly to keep fighting for what’s right. If there’s any book you should read this year, it’s this one. Kenya Hunt GIRL: Essays on Black womanhood, $, available at AmazonJess Commons, Lifestyle DirectorBook: The Searcher by Tana FrenchWhy is it your November read? Look, sometimes in autumn when the wind is howling outside your window and the world is at its worst, you just need to settle down with a good escapist detective mystery and Irish-American Tana French is the best at writing modern, relatable, millennial-friendly whodunnits (see: Broken Harbour and In The Woods). The Searcher is set in a remote Irish village and is about the hunt for a missing boy which is hampered by long-kept secrets and neighbours who aren’t as welcoming as they seem. It is, sadly for me, a little more traditional hard-boiled crime drama than the rest of French’s novels (the protagonist is a retired cop from Chicago who’s decamped to Ireland) but I’m still getting through it at an enjoyable pace.Tana French The Searcher, $, available at Blackwell's BooksSadhbh O’Sullivan, Health & Living WriterBook: Earthlings by Sayaka MurataWhy is it your November read? Like many others, I loved Murata’s bestseller Convenience Store Woman and trust that her next release will be just as good. Earthlings promises an unsettling, sometimes disturbing critique of alienation and loneliness and what we do to survive. I am carefully avoiding spoilers but it promises to be a surreal, unpredictable and absorbing read. As an escape from everything that's going on right now, I can’t wait.Sayaka Murata Earthlings, $, available at WaterstonesAlicia Lansom, Editorial AssistantBook: Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung FrazierWhy is it your November read? I’ve recently realised that I need to be reading lighter material before I go to bed, which is why I’m turning to Jean Kyoung Frazier’s Pizza Girl. Telling the story of an 18-year-old pregnant pizza delivery girl, the book takes on a number of issues associated with being on the cusp of adulthood, like boyfriends, parents and the fear-inducing question of what the future might hold. From all the reviews I’ve read, the book looks to be a funny and moving story about motherhood and the ups and downs of trying to figure out life as a young person, which is exactly the sort of story I’m looking for right now. Jean Kyoung Frazier Pizza Girl, $, available at AmazonVicky Spratt, Features EditorBook: A Man’s Place by Annie ErnauxWhy is it your November read? We hear so much about mother/daughter relationships but there are, it strikes me, rarely as many thoughtful explorations of how fathers and daughters relate to one another. I don’t want to say too much but the French memoirist Annie Ernaux’s father died exactly two months after she passed her exams and qualified as a teacher. In this memoir, she narrates her father’s ageing and observes a man who clearly admires his daughter but perhaps struggles to express it. Ernaux is an incredible writer; she writes memoir but she doesn’t quite trust her own memories and so scrutinises everything. More books like this, please!Annie Ernaux A Man’s Place, $, available at Fitzcarraldo EditionsLike what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?The Best Books Of 2020, So Far20 Terrifying Books To Tuck Into ASAPI'm An Editor For Stormzy's #Merky Books
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