Murder bots and motherhood, chess competitions and duels, the books on the November Read This Next! list are full of all the unexpected stories readers have come to expect from Read This Next! books.

Every month Read This Next! highlights new books that are receiving exceptional, and exceptionally enthusiastic, buzz from Southern indie booksellers. Each of the selected books has several enthusiastic cheerleaders among Southern indie booksellers. SIBA always makes a point of putting the store excitement and buzz around these books in front of their publishers, raising store visibility with the industry.

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What SIBA Booksellers have to say:

System Collapse by Martha Wells
If you already love Murderbot, you'll continue to love it. This newest installation still has the wonderful mix of snark, action, and Murderbot struggling with being a construct of free will.
– Kelly McLeod from The Haunted Book Shop in Mobile, AL

Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
This YA debut by Ali was not only riveting, it was exceptionally written. This novel almost feels like chess when you're reading it and watching how intricately Ali has weaved these characters together.
– Charlotte Beck from Main Street Reads in Summerville, SC

Class : A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land
Land calls out the emotional and physical cost of being a single parent and student...An education in inequality and perseverance, you will never think of resilience in the same way again.
– Jan Blodgett from Main Street Books in Davidson, NC

So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan is such a powerful writer...Dealing with misogyny, love and lust, and betrayal this collection is insightful at times, enraging at others.
– Kelley Barnes from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC

Duel by Jessixa Bagley, Aaron Bagley (Illus.)
I loved the creativity in the book. I really like how they included other kinds of people in the story. It shows that you have to have courage to do something even if you don't win.
– Mandy Harris from Angel Wings Bookstore in Stem, NC

Current Read This Next! books and what SIBA booksellers have to say about them can always be found at The Southern Bookseller Review