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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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