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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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