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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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