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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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