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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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