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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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