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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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