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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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