6 Can’t-Miss Novels to Read in November, From Daniel M. Lavery, Cherry Lou Sy, and More

‘A Case of Matricide’ by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Blasé chief inspector Gorski, of Saint-Louis, France, embarks on a bungled relationship and tangles with a novelist whose mother is afraid he’s going to kill her in this marvelously meta mystery from Booker-nominated Graeme Macrae Burnet. (Biblioasis)

‘Love Can’t Feed You’ by Cherry Lou Sy

In Cherry Lou Sy’s debut, a man and his children leave the Philippines to join his wife in Sunset Park, Brooklyn; there, teenage Queenie finds herself caught between her feuding parents and begins to explore her own desire. (Dutton)

‘Eurotrash’ by Christian Kracht

Christian Kracht released Faserland in 1995; nearly 30 years later this sequel finds its narrator on a road trip with his infirm and barbiturate-popping mother while attempting to right the sins of his forefathers. (Liveright)

‘Every Arc Bends Its Radian’ by Sergio De La Pava

A “poet/philosopher/ private eye” searches Colombia for a missing woman, encountering police corruption and crime syndicates in Sergio De La Pava’s roiling, noirish, existential explosion of a novel. (Simon & Schuster)

‘Women’s Hotel’ by Daniel M. Lavery

From Daniel M. Lavery, a finely wrought and funny group portrait of the inhabitants of a waning Barbizon-esque hotel in 1960s New York: A bartender, a biographer, a party girl, and others juggle jobs and relationships. (HarperVia)

‘Don’t Be a Stranger’ by Susan Minot

A divorced mother, nearly 53, falls under the erotic thrall of a charismatic roving musician—a “comet” about which she begins to orbit. With deft, sleek prose, Susan Minot captures the all-consuming nature of obsession. (Knopf)