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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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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