For my November 2025 TBR, I am trying to put the focus back on my owned books while keeping up with using my library. I am still working on finishing some series, as I have far too many on the go. This will help me continue to whittle down my main TBR. As with all months, if I manage to read all of these books in good time, I will squeeze in some others.
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November 2025 TBR
Physical Books
Summertime Rendering Vol. 4 by Yasuki Tanaka
Barely escaping the deadly battle with Heine and Shide, Shinpei is thrown into the 5th loop with the help of Nagumo! The mystery of Hitogashima Island will finally be revealed! But someone in the dark is watching….
Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon Vol. 4 by Rumiko Takahashi
Can the three teenage daughters of demon dog half-brothers Inuyasha and Sesshomaru save their parents, themselves, and both realms from the menace of the seven mystical Rainbow Pearls?
While the trio continues marching westward, they run into a slimy beast that kidnaps princesses! Coming to their aid is Tokichiro Kinoshita, a cunning peasant who will one day become a historical legend, and he devises a clever—and embarrassing—plan to lure the monster out of hiding. Then, the girls battle the demon and witness the sorts of tricks that Inuyasha himself would pull off!
Fly Me To The Moon Vol. 11 by Kenjiro Hata
First comes marriage, then comes an earthbound love that is out of this world!
From the day his parents named him, Nasa Yuzaki has felt connected to outer space…whether he likes it or not. His efforts to outperform the space program veer off course when an accident introduces him to Tsukasa, a mysterious girl with strange powers. Is she an alien, a moon goddess, or something else? Since she insists on marrying him, Nasa will have plenty of chances to find out!
During their camping trip, the gang surprises Nasa and Tsukasa with a belated wedding reception and a glampsite with a king-size bed! When they’re not blushing and stammering their way through the festivities, the no-longer-newlyweds consider what marriage means to them. Maybe it’s time to move out of the neighborhood bathhouse and into a place with a little more privacy.
Komi Can’t Communicate Vol. 31 by Tomohito Oda
The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation.
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi’s greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends.
Tadano and Komi are going to the summer festival together! It’s a classic date destination, almost a rite of passage for couples. But rites of passage come with high expectations and high pressure—especially when it seems like the whole world is out to ruin your night! Can Tadano and Komi save their date from bad luck and worse weather?
Library Wars: Love & War Vol. 5 by Kiiro Yumi
In the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves–the Library Forces!
Iku is about to face her most difficult challenge—her parents are coming to visit the library where she works! When she joined the Library Forces, she told her parents that she was just going to be a librarian. Now they might discover that she’s on the ultra-dangerous Task Force. Can her parents ever accept that she’s a library warrior?
A Fish Caught In Time by Samantha Weinberg
A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor – 400 million years old – a four-limbed dinofish!
In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a young South African museum curator, caught sight of a specimen among a fisherman’s trawl that she knew was special. With limb-like protuberances culminating in fins the strange fish was unlike anything she had ever seen. The museum board members dismissed it as a common lungfish, but when Marjorie eventually contacted Professor JLB Smith, he immediately identified her fish as a coelacanth – a species known to have lived 400 million years ago, and believed by many scientists to be the evolutionary missing link – the first creature to crawl out of the sea. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer had thus made the century’s greatest zoological discovery. But Smith needed a live or frozen specimen to verify the discovery, so began his search for another coelacanth, to which he devoted his life.
Library Books
The Book At War by Andrew Pettegree
We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath—one ranks among humanity’s greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed literary historian Andrew Pettegree demonstrates, the two are deeply intertwined. The Book at Warexplores the various roles that books have played in conflicts throughout the globe. Winston Churchill used a travel guide to plan the invasion of Norway, lonely families turned to libraries while their loved ones were fighting in the trenches, and during the Cold War both sides used books to spread their visions of how the world should be run. As solace or instruction manual, as critique or propaganda, books have shaped modern military history—for both good and ill.
With precise historical analysis and sparkling prose, The Book at War accounts for the power—and the ambivalence—of words at war.
At The Water’s Edge by Carl Zimmer
At the Water’s Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life’s transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we got here, what we left behind, and what we brought with us.
We all know about evolution, but it still seems absurd that our ancestors were fish. Darwin’s idea of natural selection was the key to solving generation-to-generation evolution — microevolution — but it could only point us toward a complete explanation, still to come, of the engines of macroevolution, the transformation of body shapes across millions of years. Now, drawing on the latest fossil discoveries and breakthrough scientific analysis, Carl Zimmer reveals how macroevolution works. Escorting us along the trail of discovery up to the current dramatic research in paleontology, ecology, genetics, and embryology, Zimmer shows how scientists today are unveiling the secrets of life that biologists struggled with two centuries ago.
In this book, you will find a dazzling, brash literary talent and a rigorous scientific sensibility gracefully brought together. Carl Zimmer provides a comprehensive, lucid, and authoritative answer to the mystery of how nature actually made itself.
I hope you enjoyed my November 2025 TBR. What books do you plan to read this month?
At this time of year, I should also start focusing on owned books if I want to meet my goal 😅 The Book at War looks interesting! Good luck with your TBR this month.
Good luck reaching your goal. I haven’t finished The Book At War yet, however, it’s quite an interesting read.