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Fully Booked: All of the must-read new releases in November 2022

The newest releases to pre-order, tear through and pass along — or add to that teetering To Be Read pile.
By Alexandra English


THIS MONTH, new collections from Patti Smith, Heather Rose and Mia Mercado mix with a witty debut novel about sexuality and tradition.

Related: Diana Reid on the fine line between self-care and selfishness

1

A Book of Days, by Patti Smith

Booktopia, $27.99

Patti Smith, the singer, punk poet, author, photographer and avid coffee drinker, has been documenting her life for, well, most of it. When she joined Instagram (@thisispattismith) in 2018, she found a ready audience for her daily documentation: photos of her desk, her cat, her favourite cafe, accompanied by captions structured as poems. Her new book, A Book of Days, is a collection of more than 365 images and words for each day of the year. She has described it as “a particular vision shared as stepping stones, hopefully leading readers to their own memories and impressions — 366 invitations to move through time”.

2

Resilience: A Celebration of Poetry, Fiction and Essays, from Mascara Literary

Booktopia, $29.99

To celebrate 15 years of publishing, Mascara Literary Review has collated a selection of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry that exemplify writing as a form of resilience. It’s rebellious and experimental, with contributors penning pieces that ask what the future of Australian literature looks like while reclaiming and amplifying unheard voices. The anthology is curated by Michelle Cahill, the organisation’s founder and the author of Daisy and Woolf, alongside editors Anthea Yang and Monique Nair.

3

Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here, by Heather Rose

Booktopia, $32.99

Heather Rose, the multi-multi-award-winning author of the novels Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love, as well as six others, has come out with a memoir that ties together the disparate works of her writing career. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here is a collection of deeply personal essays traversing love, nature, death, familial bonds, creativity, spiritual adventures, the lessons gained from pain, and the power of healing. Among the stories of hope and courage is a love letter to Tasmania, where Rose grew up and experienced tragedy at a young age that set her on her life’s course to explore all of life’s mysteries.

4

She’s Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good, by Mia Mercado

Booktopia, $49.99

This one is for the “sorry” girls. The ones whose first instinct upon any interaction with a stranger (they’ve bumped into you, they’ve cut in line, they’ve taken your parking spot) is to apologise to them. Mia Mercado — who writes The Cut‘s very funny “I Can’t Shut Up About” column — has written an essay collection that takes a deep dive into the burden of being nice: am I too nice? Am I being taken for granted? Am I really nice, or is my niceness performative? It’s a call to end people-pleasing tendencies and be nice to yourself first.

5

Women Talking, by Miriam Toews

Dymocks, $22.99

This is a harrowing account of a mass rape in a remote religious Mennonite colony. Between 2005 and 2009, more than 100 women were knocked unconscious and raped. Many of them thought it was an act of ghosts who were punishing the women for their sins. Miriam Toews’ Women Talking is an imagined response to those events, which is slated to be a major film starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara and Ben Whishaw. Toews is an award-winning author who grew up in a Mennonite community in Canada.

6

Shmutz, by Felicia Berliner

Booktopia, $32.99

Raizl is a young Hasidic woman on a mission to find a husband. But one thing is getting in her way: her secret porn addiction. She fell into online pornography slowly at first — when she was using a hidden computer for her college degree — and then all at once. She’s suddenly navigating dates and uncovering elements of her sexuality that are at odds with her family’s conventional values. It’s a witty and provocative debut novel that confronts what it’s like to be caught between tradition and modernity.

Related: Fully booked: All of the must-read new releases in September 2022
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