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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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