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July Indie Next List
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Jul 7, 2025
Borrowed by Yvonne Selander, collection development librarian
Every month the American Booksellers Association, an organization of independent booksellers, puts together the IndieNext list. I am a HUGE fan of its lists having found many new (and now favorite) authors, great books for discussion, and books that are just darn good. Maybe you’ll find your next great read here?
- No. 1 Pick: “The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy” by Brigitte Knightley
- “The Bewitching” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- “Bug Hollow” by Michelle Huneven
- “The Compound” by Aisling Rawle
- “Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life As a Failed Child Star” by Tamara Yajia
- “Daikon” by Samuel Hawley
- “Don't Let Him In” by Lisa Jewell
- “The Enchanted Greenhouse” by Sarah Beth Durst
- “Finding Grace” by Loretta Rothschild
- “The Girls Who Grew Big” by Leila Mottley
- “Hazel Says No” by Jessica Berger Gross
- “Hot Girls with Balls” by Benedict Nguyen
- “I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness" by Irene Solà, Mara Faye Lethem (Transl.)
- “In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage #1)” by Kalie Cassidy
- “Make Your Way Home: Stories” by Carrie R. Moore
- “A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck” by Sophie Elmhirst
- “Party of Liars” by Kelsey Cox
- “Rose in Chains” by Julie Soto
- “The Satisfaction Café” by Kathy Wang
- “Sounds Like Love” by Ashley Poston
- “Sunburn” by Chloe Michelle Howarth
- “Sunny Side Up” by Katie Sturino
- “These Summer Storms” by Sarah MacLean
- “The Undercurrent” by Sarah Sawyer
- “Vera, or Faith” by Gary Shteyngart