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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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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