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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

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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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