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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

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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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