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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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