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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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