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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
Latin@ rising : an anthology of Latin@ science fiction and fantasy
The closer
Papi : my story
Las biuty queens : stories.
Speculative fiction for dreamers : a Latinx anthology
Halsey Street
Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
The Latin American cookbook
Frida Kahlo : una biografía
The Crafty Chica creates! : Latinx-inspired DIY projects with spirit and sparkle
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
My beloved world
Presenting Celia Cruz
Why soccer matters
Los mejores narradores jóvenes en español
The Poet X
Decoding
The Norton anthology of Latino literature
Tales from la Vida : a Latinx comics anthology
The book of Emma Reyes
My Broken Language: A Memoir
A long petal of the sea: a novel
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
The low, low woods, by Carmen Maria Machado
Snow, glass, apples, by Neil Gaiman
The haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
More deadly than the male : masterpieces from the queens of horror, edited by Graeme Davis
Anthony Bourdain's hungry ghosts, by Anthony Bourdain
The cabin at the end of the world : a novel, by Paul Tremblay
Shivers VI, edited by Richard Chizmar
Sundial, by Catriona Ward
Always the first to die, by R. J. Jacobs
Other terrors : an inclusive anthology, edited by Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason
Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
Security : a novel, by Gina Wohlsdorf
Mexican gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Just like home, by Sarah Gailey
My favorite thing is monsters, by Emil Ferris
My heart is a chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones
The shadows, by Alex North
White is for witching, by Helen Oyeyemi
Six scary stories, edited by Stephen King

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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