November 2025 Most Anticipated New Book Releases

Contemporary & Literary Fiction

Cursed Daughters

Oyinkan Braithwaite

A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer.

Publication date: November 4

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Flat Earth

Anika Jade Levy

A young woman struggles with the artistic success of her more privileged, beautiful best friend in this ruthless portrait of the New York art scene in which relationships are transactional, men are vampiric, and women have limited time to trade on their youth, beauty, and talent—it’s Renata Adler’s Speedboat for the Adderall generation.

Publication date: November 4

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Helm

Sarah Hall

From the twice-Booker-nominated writer of Burntcoat, a bold and astonishing literary masterpiece that explores faith, connection, and our relationship to the natural world. Rich, wild, and vital, Helm is the story of a singular life force, and of the relationship between nature and people, neither of whom can weather life without the other.

Publication date: November 4

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Like Family

Erin O. White

After a near-stranger dies in their small town, a tightknit group of friends can no longer ignore their long-dormant desires and unfulfilled dreams—a moving debut about the complicated joys of chosen family.

Publication date: November 4

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One Boat

Jonathan Buckley

After losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast—the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. Soon, she encounters some of the people she met last time around. They talk about their longings, regrets, the passing of time, and their sense of who they are. Artfully constructed, absorbing, and insightful, One Boat is a brilliant novel grappling with questions of identity, free will, guilt, and responsibility.

Publication date: November 4

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Only Son

Kevin Moffett

A man and his son embark on a Pacific Coast road trip, following the mysterious travel journal of his deceased father, exploring family bonds and personal discovery.

Publication date: November 4

Other People’s Fun

Harriet Lane

A chance encounter draws two old classmates toward an unforgettable reckoning in this “very smart and darkly funny” novel exploring power—and how it tangles with privilege, marriage, motherhood, and midlife—from the acclaimed author of Alys, Always, and Her.

Publication date: November 4

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Palaver

Bryan Washington

A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington. Written with understated humor and an open heart, moving through past and present and across Houston, Jamaica, and Japan, Bryan Washington’s Palaver is an intricate story of family, love, and the beauty of a life among others.

Publication date: November 4

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Thirst Trap

Gráinne O’Hare

A bitingly funny novel about your late 20s as you stare down 30—when do you tire of morning hangovers, days of dead-end entry-level jobs, and late nights at bars? This friend group is about to find out.

Publication date: November 4

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Town & Country

Brian Schaefer

A big-hearted and true debut novel set in a small rural town amid a congressional race that forces the candidates, their families, and a clique of gay second homeowners to confront lies, betrayals and shifting allegiances.

Publication date: November 4

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Evensong

Stewart O’Nan

An intimate, moving novel that follows The Humpty Dumpty Club, a group of women of a certain age who band together to help one another and their circle of friends in Pittsburgh as they face the challenges of their golden years.

Publication date: November 11

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Some Bright Nowhere

Ann Packer

The bestselling, beloved author returns with her first novel in over a decade, an intimate and profoundly moving look at a long marriage and the ways in which a startling request can change a couple’s understanding of who they are, together and apart.

Publication date: November 11

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The White Hot

Quiara Alegria Hudes

The story of a runaway mother’s ten days of freedom—and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment—from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes.

Publication date: November 11

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Historical Fiction

Bitter Honey

Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström

Spanning four decades and three continents, Bitter Honey is a story about a mother and daughter divided by long buried secrets, struggling to understand each other as they forge their own paths, from the internationally bestselling author of In Every Mirror She’s Black.

Publication date: November 4

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Deeper than the Ocean

Mirta Ojito

A moving multigenerational novel about the enduring power of a mother’s love, the ripple effect of secrets, and the strength of family bonds from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Publication date: November 4

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Queen Esther

John Irving

After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award–winning film, The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther—a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism.

Publication date: November 4

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The Land in Winter

Andrew Miller

An exquisite, page-turning examination of relationships, The Land in Winter is a masterclass in storytelling—proof yet again that Andrew Miller is one of the most dazzling chroniclers of the human heart.

Publication date: November 11

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The Silver Book

Olivia Laing

Art, power, desire, and illusion collide in a hypnotic new novel from Olivia Laing, set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.

Publication date: November 11

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Romance

Fallen City

Adrienne Young

In the great walled city of Isara, political turmoil ignites a rebellion one hundred years in the making. But when a legionnaire falls in love with a Magistrate’s daughter, their love will threaten the fate of the city and the will of the gods.

Publication date: November 4

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Son of the Morning

Akwaeke Emezi

From New York Times bestselling author Akwaeke Emezi comes a steamy paranormal romance set in the Black South—a bold new foray that takes us on a journey of magic and fantasy, from the whispering creeks outside the city of Salvation to the very depths of Hell itself.

Publication date: November 4

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An Academic Affair

Jodi McAlister

From the “masterly” (The New York Times) Jodi McAlister, a charming new romance about two English professors who embark on a fake relationship… only to discover that it may be harder to pretend than they realized.

Publication date: November 11

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And Then There Was You

Sophie Cousens

Stuck in a Production Assistant job and living at home with her parents after a painful breakup, 31-year-old Chloe Fairway isn’t where she wants to be in life. The last thing she needs is to face the people who once voted her “most likely to succeed” at her upcoming 10-year college reunion. And she definitely doesn’t want to see her former best friend, Sean Adler, who is now a hotshot film director living the life Chloe dreamed of. Desperate to make a splash she turns to a mysterious dating service. She’s finds the perfect man . . . There’s just one big twist.

Publication date: November 18

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Daddy Issues

Kate Goldbeck

A jaded twenty-something is stuck living at home, her life on pause, when a single dad becomes her new neighbor and unexpectedly sets her life—and her heart—into motion in this modern love story from the bestselling author of You, Again.

Publication date: November 18

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Secret Nights and Northern Lights

Megan Oliver

Childhood best friends and first loves are reunited on a make-or-break work trip to Iceland, with old feelings coming to the surface in this charming romance from debut author Megan Oliver.

Publication date: November 18

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Thrillers & Mysteries

Her One Regret

Donna Freitas

From the author of the book club favorite The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano comes a riveting feminist thriller that tackles an unspeakable taboo: regretting motherhood. Her One Regret is at once a pulse-pounding feminist thriller, a moving depiction of the realities of motherhood, and a rich exploration of a subject our culture and society have rendered nearly verboten: the possibility that for some women, motherhood is an unfixable mistake.

Publication date: November 4

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The Predicament

William Boyd

From the internationally bestselling author, a thrilling novel starring the travel writer-turned-reluctant spy Gabriel Dax, who finds himself implicated in a dangerous conspiracy with global consequences.

Publication date: November 4

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With Friends Like These

Alissa Lee

A group of Harvard alums have played a secret game for decades but as the stakes rise, deadly consequences emerge from old lies. An unputdownable debut thriller for readers of the suspenseful novels of Julia Bartz and Katy Hays.

Publication date: November 4

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Listen

Sacha Bronwasser

A twisty, slow-burn mystery set in Paris and the Netherlands that has become a Dutch sensation. Told in alternating voices, this ingenious coming-of-age story asks important and haunting questions about the thin line between remembering and recording, seeing and being seen, coincidence and fate, revenge and reclamation—and what it means to walk this boundary.

Publication date: November 11

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Petty Lies

Sulmi Bak

We Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Vegetarian in this chilling epistolary novel of four characters locked in a frightening cycle of vengeance and comeuppance.

Publication date: November 11

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The Sunshine Man

Emma Stonex

A taut, electrifying thriller about a woman determined to avenge her sister’s murder—and the killer who must confront his own ghosts. A tense, spellbinding page-turner, The Sunshine Man twists its way through the web of lives left shattered after a terrible crime and crafts an unforgettable tale of loss and revenge.

Publication date: November 11

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59 Minutes

Holly Seddon

The internationally bestselling author of the “brilliant, gripping must-read” (GlamourTry Not to Breathe brings suspenseful thrills in this unputdownable novel following three women as they face an incoming nuclear attack.

Publication date: November 18

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Haven’t Killed in Years

Amy K. Green

No one is supposed to know harmless office worker Gwen Tanner is the vanished daughter of serial killer Abel Haggerty. But a low profile and a new name aren’t going to cut it when an obsessive new killer starts targeting her, in this lively and propulsive thriller with a standout voice.

Publication date: November 18

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Best Offer Wins

Marissa Kashino

An insanely competitive housing market. A desperate buyer on the edge. In Marisa Kashino’s darkly humorous debut novel, Best Offer Wins, the white picket fence becomes the ultimate symbol of success—and obsession. How far would you go for the house of your dreams?

Publication date: November 25

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Magical Realism

The Great Work

Sheldon Costa

An alchemist and his teenage nephew hunt down a legend in this profound and unsettling speculative Western, for fans of Karen Russell and Victor LaValle. Sheldon Costa’s dark, vivid, and strangely hopeful debut novel is a supernatural adventure through the wilderness of friendship and the rotten heart of the early American empire.

Publication date: November 4

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The King Must Die

Kemi Ashing-Giwa

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Splinter in the Sky comes a pulse-pounding science fiction adventure following the daughter of rebel instigators and the heir of a power-drunk ruler who team up to save their empire…or destroy it in the process.

Publication date: November 4

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The Merge

Grace Walker

A thrilling and ominously prophetic debut set in a world when Earth and its resources have been pushed to breaking point, giving rise to a revolutionary—and highly controversial—procedure in which two people’s consciousness can be combined to exist in one body.

Publication date: November 11

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The Strength of the Few

James Islington

This highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many—one of 2023’s most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels—follows Vis as he grapples with a dangerous secret that could unravel history across alternate dimensions.

Publication date: November 11

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Turns of Fate

Anne Bishop

A young detective investigating crimes of the uncanny will learn that bargains can change your fate—for good or ill—in this darkly enthralling fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of the Others and the Black Jewels series.

Publication date: November 11

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I, Medusa

Ayana Gray

From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine.

Publication date: November 18

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The Bookshop Below

Georgia Summers

Below the streets of London, a secret network of magical bookshops has existed for millennia. But they’re slowly disappearing, and no one knows why. Only one dishonored bookseller can uncover the truth and rewrite her story—in this spellbinding standalone fantasy novel from the author of The City of Stardust. 

Publication date: November 18

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Outlaw Planet

M.R. Carey

From one of genre fiction’s most original and revolutionary voices comes a space opera adventure like no other. Sometimes the fate of entire worlds can be decided by a woman with nothing to lose, and the smartest gun in the multiverse in her hand . . .

Publication date: November 18

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Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore 

M.R. Carey

A powerful plant witch and a grumpy alchemist must work together to save their quiet town from a magical plague in this debut cozy fantasy romance about starting over, redemption, and what it really means to be a good person.

Publication date: November 18

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As Many Souls as Stars

Natasha Siegel

An inventive and romantic speculative novel about two women—a witch and an immortal demon—who make a Faustian bargain and are drawn into a cat-and-mouse chase across multiple lifetimes.

Publication date: November 25

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Short Stories & Essays

The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories

Salman Rushdie

From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie, a spellbinding exploration of life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life.

Publication date: November 4

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The Week of Colors: Stories

Elena Garro

Short stories from the “cursed mother of magical realism” (El Mundo), now in English for the first time. With The Week of Colors, Elena Garro laid the groundwork for the literary movements that would shape the landscape of Latin American fiction and beyond. Here you’ll find the early roots of magical realism, feminist horror, and anticolonial speculative fiction. In The Week of Colors, Garro highlights the violence in our history, our homes, and our hearts, in vivid color.

Publication date: November 11

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The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories

Barry Pearce

An Irish painting contractor in a changing neighborhood struggles with the complications of befriending a Black worker. The edgy enclave he fled haunts a South Side exile, upending his life. A boy who helps his father fake accidents for insurance claims reaches a turning point. A woman from a rough patch of South Shore remembers her first girlfriend. And a Census taker learns empathy as she counts people. Their lives weave through colorful, gritty streets in The Plan of Chicago, Barry Pearce’s absorbing debut of heartbreaking division, unexpected intersections, and dim but possible dreams.

Publication date: November 11

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The Pelican Child: Stories

Joy Williams

A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of “perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss” (The Atlantic).

Publication date: November 18

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Disinheritance: The Rediscovered Stories

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

A collection of fiction by the Booker Prize–winning author and “one of the 20th century’s great female writers” (The Washington Post), drawn from her ample body of work that has been out of the public eye for decades.

Publication date: November 25

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Memoirs & Biographies

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

Margaret Atwood

How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures.

Publication date: November 4

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Indignity: A Life Reimagined

Lea Ypi

The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination. Through secret police reports of communist spies, court depositions, and Ypi’s memories of her grandmother, we move between present and past, archive and imagination. With what moral authority do we judge the acts of previous generations? And what do we really know about the people closest to us?

Publication date: November 4

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The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature

Gerald Howard

A delightful and majestic reckoning with the ascent of American fiction in the twentieth century through the prism of the under-known man who had an astonishing amount to do with it.

Publication date: November 4

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We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir

Anthony Hopkins

Academy Award–winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins delves into his illustrious film and theater career, difficult childhood, and path to sobriety in his honest, moving, and long-awaited memoir.

Publication date: November 4

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Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation

Jen Percy

A lyrical and groundbreaking exploration of the misun­derstood ways women survive and forever carry trauma from the award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Jen Percy.

Publication date: November 11

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Nonfiction

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

Tim Wu

Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (The Attention Merchants) explains how we can reclaim control and create a balanced economy that works for everyone.

Publication date: November 4

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Don’t Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours

Alan Light

The author of The Holy or the Broken and former editor-in-chief of Vibe brings his “thoughtful and illuminating” (The New York Times) insight to Fleetwood Mac’s iconic album Rumours, celebrating its story, mythology, and enduring impact.

Publication date: November 4

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Injustice: How Politics & Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department

Carol Leonnig & Aaron C. Davis

From Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, a shocking investigation of unparalleled depth into the subversion of the Justice Department over the last decade, culminating in President Donald Trump upending this cornerstone of democracy and threatening America’s rule of law as we have long known it.

Publication date: November 4

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Palace of Deception: Museum Men and and the Rise of Scientific Racism

Darrin Lunde

An eye-opening look into the founding of the American Museum of Natural History and its original racial underpinnings. Based on extensive diaries, letters, journals, and the author’s own experiences leading modern-day expeditions to several of the same places, Palace of Deception re-creates some of the most celebrated, globe-trotting journeys from natural history’s heyday. 

Publication date: November 4

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The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty

Tracy Borman

From the acclaimed royal historian, the dramatic and untold story of the lie about the controversial succession that ended the Tudor era and changed the course of British history. 

Publication date: November 4

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The History of Money: A Story of Humanity

David McWilliams

In this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money―from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley.

Publication date: November 11

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Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity

Aimee Donnellan

The inside story of the creation of Ozempic and its revolutionary impact on public health. Reuters journalist Aimee Donnellan illuminates the history of a medical breakthrough that is poised to change the world, while raising difficult social questions about inequality and morality. Through original reporting and rigorous research, she forecasts the future of GLP-1s and examines what their explosive popularity tells us about our ideals of beauty and the lengths to which people will go in order to become thin.

Publication date: November 18

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Black, White, Colored: The Hidden Story of an Insurrection, a Family, a Southern Town, and Identity in America

Lauretta Malloy Nobel & LeeAnét Noble 

An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy—an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the turn of the twentieth century in Laurinburg, North Carolina.

Publication date: November 18

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Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

W. David Marx

A revealing exploration of a quarter century of cultural stagnation, examining the commercial and technological forces that have come to dominate contemporary culture—from music and fashion to art, film, TV, and beyond.

Publication date: November 18

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The Breath of Gods: The History and Future of the Wind

Simon Winchester

New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style. The Breath of the Gods is an urgently-needed portrait across time of that unseen force—unseen but not unfelt—that respects no national borders and no vessel or structure in its path. Wind, the movement of the air, is seen by so many as a heavenly creation and generally a thing of essential goodness. But when it flexes its invisible muscles, all should take care and be very afraid.

Publication date: November 18

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Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor

Christine Kuehn

A propulsive, never-before-told story of one family’s shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Jumping back and forth between Christine discovering her family’s secret and the untold past of the spies in Germany, Japan, and Hawaii, Family of Spies is fast-paced history at its finest and will rewrite the narrative of December 7, 1941.

Publication date: November 25

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