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Novel November

Previous Novel November Speakers

Novel November is an annual event hosted by the Peters Township Library Foundation. Each year the Foundation brings in a nationally known author who speaks to the audience on a variety of topics--from their work to current events. On November 2, 2023, Victoria 'V.E.' Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, will be our Novel November speaker.

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Book Recommendations from Our Speakers

What is on their nightstand?
  • My Oxford Year by Julia Whelon
  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  • The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
  • Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  • Dark Matter by Black Crouch
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  • Book Lovers by Emily Henry
  • Normal People by Sally Rooney
  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  • The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
  • Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2021
  • The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
  • White Houses by Amy Bloom
  • Field of Blood by Denise Mina
  • Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
  • Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
  • Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Anna Quindlen, 2019
  • Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
  • Recursion by Blake Crouch
  • Upgrade by Blake Crouch
  • Lady Astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowal
  • All novels (except Robots & Empire) by Isaac Asimov
  • All novels by Arthur C. Clarke
  • All novels by Robert Heinlein
  • Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Andy Weir, 2022
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  • Selected Stories by Andre Dubus
  • First Love by Ivan Turgenev
  • The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Tim O'Brien, 2018
  • The Lover by Marguerite Duras
  • Evicted: Poetry and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
  • The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado & Amy Landon
  • Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
  • Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • Lost in the City and The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Yaa Gyasi, 2017
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