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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

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

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

Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
Sundial, by Catriona Ward
My favorite thing is monsters, by Emil Ferris
The silence of the lambs, by Thomas Harris
Anthony Bourdain's hungry ghosts, by Anthony Bourdain
Always the first to die, by R. J. Jacobs
Security : a novel, by Gina Wohlsdorf
Shivers VI, edited by Richard Chizmar
The haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
Six scary stories, edited by Stephen King
Mexican gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Just like home, by Sarah Gailey
Snow, glass, apples, by Neil Gaiman
White is for witching, by Helen Oyeyemi
The low, low woods, by Carmen Maria Machado
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
The cabin at the end of the world : a novel, by Paul Tremblay
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
Piranesi
Deacon King Kong
Hamnet: a novel of the plague
Hell of a book
Postcolonial love poem
The night watchman
Winter in Sokcho
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Lost Children Archive
The promise
All that she carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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