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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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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