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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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