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National Hispanic Heritage Month  – September 15 – October 15

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

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

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

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

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

 

Main Library Alliance’s Best Books of the Year

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Agent Josephine by Damien Lewis
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman
Babel by R.F. Kwang
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Solito by Javier Zamora
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
The Maid by Nita Prose

 

Recent Award Winning Fiction

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

 

June is Pride Month!

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

 

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

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

 

Black History Month Reads

Timelines from Black history : leaders, legends, legacies
Hollywood black : the stars, the films, the filmmakers
Deacon King Kong: A Novel by James McBride
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
This is major : notes on Diana Ross, dark girls, and being dope
Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
The measure of a man: a spiritual autobiography
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Jimi Hendrix : a brother
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Music of Black Americans: A History by Eileen Southern
The selected works of Audre Lorde
In Every Mirror She
A good cry : what we learn from tears and laughter
A lucky man: stories
Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Florence Griffith Joyner
Courage to soar: a body in motion, a life in balance
Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
Serena Williams : Making the Case for the Greatest of All Time
Twisted : the tangled history of black hair culture
Breath, eyes, memory
Arthur Ashe : a life
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality
The world
The rap year book : the most important rap song from every year since 1979, discussed, debated, and deconstructed

 

Holiday Plots

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

 

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reads

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

 

New Voices

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

 

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

 

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

 

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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

 

For Fans of Gone Girl

Read everything else written by Gillian Flynn?  Try one of these read-alikes! The following psychological suspense novels feature disturbing secrets and twisted relationships in compelling stories told from multiple viewpoints.

Die for you : a novel, by Lisa Unger
The rottweiler : a novel, by Ruth Rendell
The silent wife : a novel, by A. S. A. Harrison
The breaker, by Minette Walters
The expats : a novel, by Chris Pavone
Defending Jacob : a novel, by William Landay
The good girl, by Mary Kubica
Reconstructing Amelia : a novel, by Kimberly McCreight
Before I go to sleep : a novel, by S. J. Watson
A reliable wife, by Robert Goolrick
Dare me, by Megan Abbot
The birthday present : a novel, by Barbara Vine
Before we met : a novel, by Lucie Whitehouse
Big little lies, by Liane Moriarty
The wicked girls, by Alex Marwood

You might also enjoy these other thriller and suspense authors: Laura Lippman, Tana French, Patricia Highsmith, Chevy Stevens, Dennis Lehane, Kate Atkinson, Chelsea Cain, Peter Abrahams, Attica Locke, Nicci French, and Lisa Gardner

 

Waiting for a Sally Rooney Book?  Try One of These:

Real life, by Brandon Taylor
Oh William! : a novel, by Elizabeth Strout
Less : a novel, by Andrew Greer
How to stop time, by Matt Haig
The life to come, by Michelle 	De Kretser
Trust exercise : a novel, by Susan Choi
The Paper Palace: A Novel, by Miranda Cowley Heller
Monogamy : a novel, by Sue Miller
Wahala : a novel
Luster, by Raven Leilani