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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

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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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