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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

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

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

My favorite thing is monsters, by Emil Ferris
Shivers VI, edited by Richard Chizmar
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
Sundial, by Catriona Ward
Six scary stories, edited by Stephen King
The shadows, by Alex North
The silence of the lambs, by Thomas Harris
Anthony Bourdain's hungry ghosts, by Anthony Bourdain
Mexican gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Snow, glass, apples, by Neil Gaiman
Security : a novel, by Gina Wohlsdorf
The low, low woods, by Carmen Maria Machado
Just like home, by Sarah Gailey
White is for witching, by Helen Oyeyemi
Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
My heart is a chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones
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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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