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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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