Book Lists

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June is Pride Month!

High-risk homosexual
They both die at the end
Cantoras
Burn the page
It
Sister outsider
Bad girls
Ordinary girls
The town of Babylon
Young Mungo
The women
Time is a mother
Giovanni’s Room
The kingdom of sand
Just by looking at him
Acts of Service
Girls can kiss now
I was better last night
Bright lines

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

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

National Hispanic Heritage Month  – September 15 – October 15

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

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

New Fiction – Fall 2023

The breakaway
After that night
Out of nowhere
Happiness
Good bad girl
Tom Lake
Amazing Grace Adams
The fraud
Dead fall
The Vaster Wilds
23 1/2 lies
The Block party
Prom mom
The bone hacker
Pink Lemonade Cake murder

Recent Award Winning Fiction

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

National Short Story Month

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours : Stories
Blue Bamboo
Complete Stories of JG Ballard
High Lonesome: Selected Stories
Early Novels and Stories
Tenth of December
Men Without Women: Stories
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Grand Union
Selected Stories
What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
Honored Guest
Dubliners
Get in Trouble
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Burning Your Boats
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Where I’m Calling From

“The short story is coined from a precious metal, a glint of gold that will glow forever in the deep purse of your imagination.”
-J.G. Ballard

Women’s History Month Reads

Naomi Osaka : tennis star
The future is feminist : radical, funny, and inspiring writing by women
Eleanor
Amy Tan
Crazy brave : a memoir
The agitators: three friends who fought for abolition and women
The code breaker: Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race
Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
We got game! : 35 female athletes who changed the world
Every day is a gift: a memoir
Women of steel and stone: 22 inspirational architects, engineers, and landscape designers
I love a broad margin to my life
The book of gutsy women
Maya Lin : Artist and architect
Chien-Shiung Wu : pioneering physicist and atomic researcher
Serena Williams
The story of movie star : Anna May Wong
Women in space : 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures
Benazir Bhutto
I am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
The princess spy: the true story of World War II spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
Just pursuit : a Black prosecutor
Wild swans: three daughters of China
The moment of lift: how empowering women changes the world
Wake: the hidden history of women-led slave revolts
Women
The earth in her hands : 75 extraordinary women working in the world of plants
Mr. President, how long must we wait? : Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the fight for the right to vote
Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
Junko Tabei masters the mountains
D-Day girls: the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
Life in motion: an unlikely ballerina
Kamala
Women
Women who dared : 52 stories of fearless daredevils, adventurers, & rebels
Once I was you: a memoir of love and hate in a torn America
Beauty is convulsive : the passion of Frida Kahlo
Women explorers of the mountains : Nina Mazuchelli, Fanny Bullock Workman, Mary Vaux Walcott, Gertrude Benham, Junko Tabei
In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
Augusta Savage : the shape of a sculptor

Black History Month Reads

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The rap year book : the most important rap song from every year since 1979, discussed, debated, and deconstructed
The measure of a man: a spiritual autobiography
The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality
Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
Twisted : the tangled history of black hair culture
Deacon King Kong: A Novel by James McBride
A lucky man: stories
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America
Courage to soar: a body in motion, a life in balance
The selected works of Audre Lorde
Breath, eyes, memory
The Music of Black Americans: A History by Eileen Southern
Serena Williams : Making the Case for the Greatest of All Time
Timelines from Black history : leaders, legends, legacies
Arthur Ashe : a life
A good cry : what we learn from tears and laughter
Florence Griffith Joyner
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Jimi Hendrix : a brother
The world
In Every Mirror She
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hollywood black : the stars, the films, the filmmakers
This is major : notes on Diana Ross, dark girls, and being dope

Holiday Plots

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

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reads

The Farm
Sea People
Bangkok Wakes to Rain
So We Meet Again
The People in the Trees
Serena Singh flips the script
Beloved Strangers
Dial A for Aunties
Things We Lost to the Water
Unmarriagable
A place for us
This is Paradise
Last Story of Mina Lee
Everything I never Told You
Music of the Ghosts
Brick Lane
She Weeps Each Time You
The Girl From Everywhere
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Bad Muslim Discount
Frangipani
Hawaii
The Joy Luck Club

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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