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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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