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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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