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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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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