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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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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