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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

Presenting Celia Cruz
Latino leaders speak
Tales from la Vida : a Latinx comics anthology
The Latin American cookbook
Decoding
The closer
Papi : my story
Halsey Street
Los mejores narradores jóvenes en español
A long petal of the sea: a novel
My beloved world
The book of Emma Reyes
Latin@ rising : an anthology of Latin@ science fiction and fantasy
Las biuty queens : stories.
Speculative fiction for dreamers : a Latinx anthology
My Broken Language: A Memoir
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
Frida Kahlo : una biografía
The Poet X
Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
The Crafty Chica creates! : Latinx-inspired DIY projects with spirit and sparkle
Why soccer matters
The Norton anthology of Latino literature
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
Rita Moreno: 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
The low, low woods, by Carmen Maria Machado
Shivers VI, edited by Richard Chizmar
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
Always the first to die, by R. J. Jacobs
Sundial, by Catriona Ward
The shadows, by Alex North
Just like home, by Sarah Gailey
Six scary stories, edited by Stephen King
The silence of the lambs, by Thomas Harris
Security : a novel, by Gina Wohlsdorf
The haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
The cabin at the end of the world : a novel, by Paul Tremblay
My heart is a chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones
Snow, glass, apples, by Neil Gaiman
White is for witching, by Helen Oyeyemi
Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
Mexican gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Anthony Bourdain's hungry ghosts, by Anthony Bourdain

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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