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

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

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

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

Holiday Plots

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

New Voices

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

Historical Fiction on Audio CD

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

Feel the Love: Romance Fiction

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

If You Like Colleen Hoover, Try These:

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

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