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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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