Book Lists

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June is Pride Month!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reads

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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