I've looked back at my reading journal to early Novembers past, and here are some of the better books from previous years:
The Quickening Ground by Hayden Gabriel
Caught in the Web of Words by K.M. Elisabeth Murray
The Mist In The Mirror by Susan Hill
The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73
The Return Of The Soldier (there's a post on it here).
Myself and Michael Innes by J.I.M. Stewart (post here; and a P.S. to that - I still haven't read any of the novels!).
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (once again, post here).
18 Bookshops by Anne Scott (post here).
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks (short extract here).
My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster (post here).