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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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