Home › Adults › Book Lists

Book Lists

We also have many lists for you to browse on our Goodreads page!

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

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

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

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

Hamnet: a novel of the plague
Postcolonial love poem
Piranesi
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
The night watchman
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Hell of a book
Winter in Sokcho

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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