November 2025 Reading Recap

23 audiobooks for November

This month was a cozy collision of crime, classics, kids’ adventures, and King-level chaos:

✨ 7 newly published
🔁 15 re-reads
📖 1 book club pick
💻 1 NetGalley
🎧 100% audiobooks

Highlights included an Alex Cross binge, a Bill Hodges + Holly Gibney run, clever mysteries with Phyllida Bright and Her Majesty, the strangely timeless weight of The Bell Jar, and a nostalgic return to The Mysterious Benedict Society.

Mood of the month:
🔍 Murder
👑 British sleuths
🕷️ Serial killers
🧠 Smart kids saving the world
📜 One emotional classic for balance

Complete list for November:

• The Case of the Missing Maid: Harriet Morrow Investigates, Book 1 Rob Osler ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• We Had a Hunch: A Mystery Tom Ryan ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• The Queen Who Came in from the Cold (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #5) S.J.  Bennett ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• Murder in Miniature (Maple Bishop #2) Katie Tietjen ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• Two Truths and a Murder (A Phyllida Bright Mystery Book 5) Colleen Cambridge ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• The Unexpected Guest Charles Osborne ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5) Richard Osman ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1) Stephen King ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2) Stephen King ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3) Stephen King ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1) Stephen King ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney #2) Stephen King ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1) James Patterson ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2) James Patterson ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• Jack & Jill (Alex Cross, #3) James Patterson ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• Cat & Mouse (Alex Cross, #4) James Patterson ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• Pop Goes the Weasel (Alex Cross, #5) James Patterson ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• Roses Are Red (Alex Cross, #6) James Patterson ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• Return of the Spider (Alex Cross, #33) James Patterson ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1) Trenton Lee Stewart ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #2) Trenton Lee Stewart ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #3) Trenton Lee Stewart ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️