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Main Library Alliance’s Best Books of the Year

Hello Beautiful
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Yellowface
Pineapple Street
Birnam Wood
The Wind knows my name
North Woods
Shark heart
The Vaster wilds
Age of Vice

National Hispanic Heritage Month  – September 15 – October 15

Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
Papi : my story
Latino leaders speak
Frida Kahlo : una biografía
The Poet X
The Latin American cookbook
Speculative fiction for dreamers : a Latinx anthology
Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
Decoding
A long petal of the sea: a novel
Los mejores narradores jóvenes en español
My Broken Language: A Memoir
The closer
Halsey Street
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
Tales from la Vida : a Latinx comics anthology
Las biuty queens : stories.
Latin@ rising : an anthology of Latin@ science fiction and fantasy
Rita Moreno: a memoir
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
My beloved world
The book of Emma Reyes
Why soccer matters
Presenting Celia Cruz
The Norton anthology of Latino literature
The Crafty Chica creates! : Latinx-inspired DIY projects with spirit and sparkle

Indigenous Peoples Day – October 11

Love medicine
There there
The only good indians
Conflict resolution for holy beings
The heartbeat of wounded knee
House made of dawn
Ceremony

Oh, the Horror!  Selections for Halloween

The haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
Always the first to die, by R. J. Jacobs
The cabin at the end of the world : a novel, by Paul Tremblay
The shadows, by Alex North
Just like home, by Sarah Gailey
The silence of the lambs, by Thomas Harris
More deadly than the male : masterpieces from the queens of horror, edited by Graeme Davis
Shivers VI, edited by Richard Chizmar
Other terrors : an inclusive anthology, edited by Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason
Six scary stories, edited by Stephen King
The low, low woods, by Carmen Maria Machado
My favorite thing is monsters, by Emil Ferris
Snow, glass, apples, by Neil Gaiman
Mexican gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
White is for witching, by Helen Oyeyemi
My heart is a chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones
Sundial, by Catriona Ward
Anthony Bourdain's hungry ghosts, by Anthony Bourdain
Security : a novel, by Gina Wohlsdorf

Feel Good Reads

Amazing Grace Adams
Romantic Comedy
The Celebrants
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The House On The Cerulean Sea
A Man Called Ove
Red White and Royal Blue
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Beach Read
Evvie Drake Starts Over
The Midnight Library
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
The Guncle
Last Tang Standing
The Keeper of lost things

For Fans of “A Court of Thorns and Roses”

This Woven Kingdom
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Winter Knight
From Blood and Ash
One for my Enemy
Uprooted
Kingdom of the Wicked
The Serpent and the wings of night

New mysteries and thrillers

The intern
My darling girl
Midnight is the darkest hour
The leftover woman
West heart kill
Dirty thirty
The rose wood hunt
Suddenly a murder
Mother daughter murder night
Holly
The river we remember
Lay your body down
All the sinners bleed
Liar Thief
What lies in the woods
A disappearance in Fiji
A most agreeable murder

Historical Fiction

Gone with the wind
Pompeii
Homegoing
wolfhall
The red tent
American Pastoral
The Alienists
Things Fall Apart
Outlander
The Book thief
City of Thieves
The Nightengale

Recent Award Winning Fiction

The Five Wounds
Postcolonial love poem
Hell of a book
Hamnet: a novel of the plague
Piranesi
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Winter in Sokcho
Lost Children Archive
The promise
The night watchman
All that she carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
Deacon King Kong

Holiday Plots

The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
The Christmas spirit by Debbie Macomber
Dear Santa by Debbie Macomber
A very merry bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
Once upon a December by Amy Reichert
It's a Wonderful Woof by Spencer Quinn
The Christmas Wedding Guest by Susan Mallery
The railway detective's Christmas case by Edward Marston
Just like magic by Sarah Hogle
Christmas at the Cupcake Café : a novel by Jenny Colgan
A Christmas candy killing by Christina Romeril
The twelve topsy-turvy, very messy days of Christmas by James Patterson
The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
Falling stars by Fern Michaels
A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli
Home sweet Christmas by Susan Mallery
Christmas by the Book by Anne Marie Ryan
A Christmas memory by Richard Paul Evans
The After Party by A. C. Arthur
A Christmas deliverance by Anne Perry
The Twelve Jays of Christmas by Donna Andrews
Always, in December by Emily Stone
A merry little meet cute by Julie Murphy
Dashing through the snowbirds by Donna Andrews
An Eggnog to Die For by Amy Pershing

New Voices

Black Cloud Rising
The department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Other People's Clothes
How High We Go in the Dark
Beasts of a Little Land
The Reading List
Olga Dies Dreaming
Wahala
On a Night of a Thousand Stars
Katherine Faulkner
Chouette
The Love Hypothesis
Dava Stastri's Last Day
Never Saw Me Coming
Win Me Something
Brown Girls
All Her Little Secrets

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

deacon king kong
the island of sea women
The night watchman
a single thread
the evening and the morning
the nickel boys
a long petal of the sea
the personal librarian
Bowlaway
the age of light whitney
the last garden in england

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

how to fail at flirting
a lowcountry bride
witch please
a captain for caroline gray
the layover
seven days in june
Happy endings
isabelle and alexander
an earl the girl and a toddler
A lot like adiós
a lady's formula for love
while we were dating
the shaadi set-up
incense and sensibility
the charm offensive
the lady has a past
the wildest ride
a rogue to remember
a dance in donegal
one last stop

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

Love and other words, by Christina Lauren
The love hypothesis, by Ali Hazelwood
Hook, line, and sinker : a novel, by Tessa Bailey
Me before you, by Jojo Moyes
One true loves: a novel, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The last letter from your lover, by Jojo Moyes
Something borrowed, by Emily Giffin
In five years: a novel, by Rebecca Serle
Beach read, by Emily Henry
The People We Keep, by Allison Larkin
Little Beach Street Bakery, by Jenny Colgan
Swear on this life : a novel, by Renée Carlino
The light we lost, by Jill Santopolo
My Oxford year : a novel, by Julia Whelan
Queenie : a novel, by Candice Carty-Williams
The kiss quotient, by Helen Hoang

Also, check out books by Sally Thorne, Elle Kennedy, K.A. Tucker, and Abbi Glines!