Remember, Remember the SFF of November: 9 Knockout New Books Out November 2024

For fantasy fans looking for a cozy novel to read during the colder weather, there’s this debut! It’s about a wandering immigrant fortune teller, Tao, who travels with her mule, telling small fortunes. Small as in: when the bread will rise and who the barmaid will kiss. Never a big fortune—never again. But when she is asked to aid in the search for a lost child, she gains the company of a ragtag crew and a magical cat, and she must decide if she can trust people again.

Everyone’s favorite Little Dog Too—Toto—gets his chance to tell his side of his visit to Oz in this witty retelling. Toto tries his hardest to keep Dorothy out of trouble after they wind up in a strange land, but she doesn’t seem to want to listen. But that’s teenagers for you. So instead, Toto will have to save the day himself as she makes bad decision after bad decision. It’s a snarky, clever retelling with a lot of humor and heart.

Kenna Heron is an outcast in her village, considered half-feral, and looked down on by others. But when she is kidnapped by the Fae, she will need her fierce determination to survive. Made the servant in the faeries’ underground kingdom, Kenna must help her mistress succeed in six trials to become heir of the Earth House. Failure means death, for both of them. But a secret rebellion against the faerie king is starting, led by a handsome rebel, and Kenna will be forced to choose a side.

In this new lush romantasy, Bristol Keats has been struggling to care for her sisters after the death of her parents. Then she starts receiving letters from an aunt she didn’t know about, telling Bristol that she can help them—and that her father might still be alive. Because it turns out, their father is actually from a whole different world, a realm with fae, monsters, and magic. Bristol must travel there and face great danger if she wants to save him and learn the truth of their lives. If she can stay alive, that is.

Exciting news—it’s another book with faeries! Virginia should have listened to her mother all those years ago about going into the woods near their antique shop in Michigan. But she didn’t, and so her true love was cursed by a witch just days before her daughter Gemma was born. Now it’s Gemma’s turn to disobey her mother about the woods, and when she crosses a line, her mother is kidnapped by the witch. Gemma must enter the land of faeries to find her and break the family curse.

Rounding out the new releases for adults is the debut novel of comic book writer Gail Simone! She is reimagining the story of legendary warrior Red Sonja, the famous fiery She-Devil of Hyrkania. When she starts hearing voices in her sleep and the rumors of strange creatures climbing from the ground reach her, she will have to return to her homeland to fight possibly her scariest opponent yet—her past.