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Set us as preferred Reading List10 books for your November reading listIf you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.As a nation, we give thanks this month, and readers can, too, since November’s new releases include several kinds of fiction (sci-fi, climate dystopia and thriller, among them) and nonfiction featuring a memoir from a nonagenarian legend, an octogenarian legend and an almost-septuagenarian legend.Happy reading!FICTION:Stations: A NovelBy Louise KennedyRiverhead Books: 288 pp., $28(Nov.

3)Kennedy (who penned the international bestseller “Trespasses”) is Irish and knows that country’s Roman Catholicism well, which means that her latest book’s title signals differences in class and status — but also has that whiff from the church thurible that signals the Stations of the Cross, or the Way of Sorrows.Roisin, a teen in 1982, falls hard for her friend Tina’s upper-class boyfriend, Red Camelin.

She’ll undergo her own sorrows when she finds him again, in London, living in a squat.A Glacier’s Guide to Dying: A NovelBy Michelle PorterAlgonquin Books: 272 pp., $29(Nov.3)Robbie, a young Métis man, thinks the best way to find his missing father is through his Anglo uncle, Doug, who lives in Montana.

When Robbie and his mother travel by bus from Alberta, Canada, they part ways for a time before he discovers raging wildfires threaten her location.Meanwhile, Doug has made a confession that haunts the men as they follow a pregnant bison onto an unstable glacier.

It’s an unusual, slightly surreal, meditation on climate change.Monsters of Ohio: A NovelBy John ScalziTor Books: 272 pp., $30(Nov.3)It’s a familiar scenario: A civil servant gets laid off and moves back in with family, far from Washington, D.C.

Scalzi’s lates...