November 2023 TBR list: last month was a success I read 5 books out of 6 books on my TBR.  I’m going to place 6 books on my TBR with me carrying over A Haunting on the Hill which I started reading last month and 5 new books. I have 2 advanced reader copies on the list to review. I have two books on many Best of 2023 Books list.  November is the month I tend to read the buzziest books so I can vote in the Goodreads Choice Awards for 2023. I’ve read 5 books so far that I think will make the nominations for Romance: Happy Place by Emily Henry, Science Fiction: The Ferryman by Justin Cronin and Starter Villain John Scalzi, Horror: Black River Orchard by David Wendig, and Mystery: I Have Some Questions for you by Rebecca Makkai.

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang is on a lot of best of 2023 book list.  Yellowface looks at race, diversity, and cultural appropriation through the eyes of a woman taking her Asian girlfriend, novel and claiming it to be hers after death, by using a pseudonym that sounds Asian.  I do not read that much contemporary fiction and really looking forward to it. I have not read any books by Kuang, but Babel and The Poppy War are highly recommended. Yellowface was published on May 25, 2023.

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann is a crazy nonfiction that on a lot of 2023 best of list.  A group of marooned crewmen were hailed as heroes as a flimsy boat washes up in Brazil, then six months later another decrepit boat shows up with three sailors in Chile and tells a tale of mutiny and murder about the so-called heroes.  David Grann is the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and Lost City of Z. Martin Scorsese is already planning n making this novel his next film. The Wager was published on April 18, 2023.

The Mystery Guest by Nina Prose is the sequel to The Maid which I quite enjoyed last year and had it on my Best of 2022 list.  Moly Gray the autistic maid is back with another mystery.  This time a famed mystery writer drops dead in the hotel’s tearoom floor. Molly must solve the murder.  The maid was a fun cozy mystery that was a lot of fun. I received an advanced reader’s copy thanks to Netgalley and Ballentine Books. The Mystery Guest is published on November 28, 2023.

A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand is the first ever authorized by Shirley Jackson’s estate too return to The Haunting of Hill House.  I’m reading the original first then the continuing of the story.  I watch the Haunting of Hill House Series on Netflix and will be telling how these stories relate to that.  Thanks from Netgalley and Mullholland Books for giving me a free copy.  A Haunting on the Hill is published on October 3, 2023.

Stranger Things: Six By Jody Houser is the second Stranger Things graphic novel.  Six is a prequel set five years before the events in Stranger Things.  The story follows Six a character that can see in to the future, which I’m sure will include events that will happen in Stranger Things.

Goosebumps: Ghost Camp by R. L. Stine is Goosebumps book 45 in the original series order. Some of my favorite Goosebumps have involved a camp Welcome to Camp Nightmare and The Horror at Camp JellyJam, so I have high hopes.  The cover is very cool.  The description doesn’t give anything away so I will have to be in the dark with this one, the scary dark.