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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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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