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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

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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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