The Hypelist 5x5: Nov 10th
5 up & coming releases in 5 different categories. That’s 25 new things to get obsessed with. Curated by Hypelist editors every week. [Cover: Holly Humberstone for “Die Happy”]
Items in this hypelist
Music
Die Happy
Song · Holly Humberstone · Indie Pop
Ur an Angel I’m Just Particles
Album · BENEE · Indie Pop
Stardust
Album · Danny Brown · Experimental Hip-Hop
HEART MAID
Album · SUNMI · K-pop
Do It
Song · underscores · Electropop
Movies
Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier · 2025 · Comedy Drama
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.
Good Fortune
Aziz Ansari · 2025 · Action Comedy
A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy capitalist.
I Really Love My Husband
G.G. Hawkins · 2025 · Romance Comedy
When a woman grows disillusioned with her golden-boy husband during their tropical honeymoon, she recruits an enigmatic expat to spice things up—for better or worse.
Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay · 2025 · Psychological Thriller
A woman living in a remote rural area is driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.
Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro · 2025 · Gothic Drama
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
TV
Death by Lightning
Mike Makowsky · 2025 · Historical Drama
The story of James Garfield, who rose from obscurity to become America's 20th President — and Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated him.
All Her Fault
Megan Gallagher · 2025 · Thriller
In Chicago, Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognizes. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.
I Love LA
Rachel Sennott · 2025 · Comedy
A codependent friend group navigates life and love in Los Angeles. With aspirations of becoming a talent manager, Maia is stalled out as an assistant while living with her boyfriend...until her longtime best friend and frenzied influencer Tallulah returns.
Pluribus
Vince Gilligan · 2025 · Sci-fi Drama
The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
The Chair Company
Tim Robinson, Zach Kanin · 2025 · Comedy
After an embarrassing incident at work, suburban family man William Ronald Trosper finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy.
Beauty
Dieux
Air Angel Peptide Plumping Gel Cream
LORE
Eau de Parfum
VIOLETTE_FR
Plume Lip Feather Matte Lip Whip
Glow Recipe
Prickly Pear Peptide Mucin
EADAM
Le Chouchou Lip Softening Balm
Books
The Wayfinder
Adam Johnson · 2025 · Historical Fiction
<p><b>A historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen.<br><br></b>Talking corpses, poetic parrots, and a fan that wafts the breath of life—this is the world young Kōrero finds herself thrust into when a mysterious visitor lands on her island, a place so remote its inhabitants have forgotten the word for <i>stranger</i>. Her people are desperate and on the brink of starvation, and the wayward stranger offers them an impossible choice: they can remain in the only home they’ve ever known and await the uncertainty to come, or Kōrero can join him and venture into unfamiliar waters, guided by only the night sky and his assurance of a bountiful future in the Kingdom of Tonga. What Kōrero and her people don’t know is that the promised refuge is no utopia—instead, Tonga is an empire at war and on the verge of collapse, a place where brains are regularly liberated from skulls and souls get trapped in coconuts with some frequency.<br><br><br>The perils of Tonga are compounded by a royal feud: loyalties are shifting, graves are being opened, and everyone lives in fear of a jellyfish tattoo. Here, survival can rest on a perfectly performed dance or the acceptance of a cup of kava. Together, the stranger and Kōrero embark upon an epic voyage—one that will deliver them either to salvation or to<br>the depths of the Pacific.<br><br>Evoking the grandeur of <i>Wolf Hall</i> and the splendor of <i>Shōgun</i>, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Adam Johnson conjures oral history, restores the natural world, and locates what’s best in humanity. Toweringly ambitious and breathtakingly immersive, <i>The Wayfinder</i> is an instant, timeless classic.</p>
Awake: A Memoir
Jen Hatmaker · 2025 · Autobiography
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Margaret Atwood · 2025 · Autobiography
<b>How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> and <i>The Testaments,</i> one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures.<br></b><br> <i>'Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through their minds, or mind, they are not the same.'</i><br> <br> Raised by ruggedly independent, scientifically minded parents - entomologist father, dietician mother - Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec. This childhood was unfettered and nomadic, sometimes isolated (on her eighth birthday: 'It sounds forlorn. It was forlorn. It gets more forlorn.'), but also thrilling and beautiful.<br> <br> From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking seminal moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel year that spawned <i>Cat's Eye</i> to the Orwellian 1980s Berlin where she wrote <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i>. In pages bursting with bohemian gatherings, her magical life with the wildly charismatic writer Graeme Gibson and major political turning points, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood actors and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.<br> <br> As we travel with her along the course of her life, more and more is revealed about her writing, the connections between real life and art - and the workings of one of our greatest imaginations.
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Mary Roach · 2025 · Science & Tech
<p>Instant New York Times Bestseller<br> One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025<br> A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Fall Book<br> <br> From the New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz, a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy.</p> <p>The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what’s available—sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we’re attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet?</p> <p>In Replaceable You, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body’s failings. When and how does a person decide they’d be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Can a donated heart be made to beat forever? Can an intestine provide a workable substitute for a vagina?</p> <p>Roach dives in with her characteristic verve and infectious wit. Her travels take her to the OR at a legendary burn unit in Boston, a “superclean” xeno-pigsty in China, and a stem cell “hair nursery” in the San Diego tech hub. She talks with researchers and surgeons, amputees and ostomates, printers of kidneys and designers of wearable organs. She spends time in a working iron lung from the 1950s, stays up all night with recovery techs as they disassemble and reassemble a tissue donor, and travels across Mongolia with the cataract surgeons of Orbis International.</p> <p>Irrepressible and accessible, Replaceable You immerses readers in the wondrous, improbable, and surreal quest to build a new you.</p>
My Lips, Her Voice
L. L. Madrid · 2025 · Gothic Horror
