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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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