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Main Library Alliance’s Best Books of the Year

The Vaster wilds
Age of Vice
Hello Beautiful
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Yellowface

National Hispanic Heritage Month  – September 15 – October 15

My Broken Language: A Memoir
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
Why soccer matters
Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
Latino leaders speak

Indigenous Peoples Day – October 11

House made of dawn
Ceremony
Love medicine
There there
The only good indians

Oh, the Horror!  Selections for Halloween

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
The low, low woods, by Carmen Maria Machado
Anthony Bourdain's hungry ghosts, by Anthony Bourdain

Feel Good Reads

Last Tang Standing
The Keeper of lost things
Amazing Grace Adams
Romantic Comedy
The Celebrants

For Fans of “A Court of Thorns and Roses”

Kingdom of the Wicked
The Serpent and the wings of night
This Woven Kingdom
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Winter Knight

New mysteries and thrillers

A disappearance in Fiji
A most agreeable murder
The intern
My darling girl
Midnight is the darkest hour

Historical Fiction

City of Thieves
The Nightengale
Gone with the wind
Pompeii
Homegoing

Recent Award Winning Fiction

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
The night watchman
All that she carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
Postcolonial love poem
Hell of a book

Holiday Plots

A very merry bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
Just like magic by Sarah Hogle
Falling stars by Fern Michaels
The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
A merry little meet cute by Julie Murphy

New Voices

Chouette
Win Me Something
How High We Go in the Dark
Olga Dies Dreaming
Never Saw Me Coming

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

the nickel boys
the island of sea women
deacon king kong
a long petal of the sea
a single thread

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

A lot like adiós
the charm offensive
how to fail at flirting
a captain for caroline gray
a rogue to remember

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

The last letter from your lover, by Jojo Moyes
Hook, line, and sinker : a novel, by Tessa Bailey
Beach read, by Emily Henry
Me before you, by Jojo Moyes
Queenie : a novel, by Candice Carty-Williams

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