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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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