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Main Library Alliance’s Best Books of the Year

The Vaster wilds
Age of Vice
Hello Beautiful
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Yellowface

National Hispanic Heritage Month  – September 15 – October 15

The book of Emma Reyes
Presenting Celia Cruz
The Poet X
Rita Moreno: a memoir
The Norton anthology of Latino literature

Indigenous Peoples Day – October 11

House made of dawn
Ceremony
Love medicine
There there
The only good indians

Oh, the Horror!  Selections for Halloween

My heart is a chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones
Mexican gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Other terrors : an inclusive anthology, edited by Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason
Always the first to die, by R. J. Jacobs
More deadly than the male : masterpieces from the queens of horror, edited by Graeme Davis

Feel Good Reads

Last Tang Standing
The Keeper of lost things
Amazing Grace Adams
Romantic Comedy
The Celebrants

For Fans of “A Court of Thorns and Roses”

Kingdom of the Wicked
The Serpent and the wings of night
This Woven Kingdom
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Winter Knight

New mysteries and thrillers

A disappearance in Fiji
A most agreeable murder
The intern
My darling girl
Midnight is the darkest hour

Historical Fiction

City of Thieves
The Nightengale
Gone with the wind
Pompeii
Homegoing

Recent Award Winning Fiction

The Five Wounds
The promise
Lost Children Archive
Hell of a book
All that she carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake

Holiday Plots

The railway detective's Christmas case by Edward Marston
A Christmas deliverance by Anne Perry
A very merry bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
Always, in December by Emily Stone
Home sweet Christmas by Susan Mallery

New Voices

Beasts of a Little Land
All Her Little Secrets
Katherine Faulkner
Dava Stastri's Last Day
On a Night of a Thousand Stars

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

a long petal of the sea
the evening and the morning
deacon king kong
the nickel boys
the age of light whitney

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

a rogue to remember
an earl the girl and a toddler
the layover
seven days in june
a dance in donegal

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

In five years: a novel, by Rebecca Serle
Me before you, by Jojo Moyes
The last letter from your lover, by Jojo Moyes
Queenie : a novel, by Candice Carty-Williams
Something borrowed, by Emily Giffin

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