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June Indie Next List
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Jun 5, 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: “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil” by V. E. Schwab
- “Aftertaste” by Daria Lavelle
- “Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- “Behooved“ by M. Stevenson
- “Endling” by Maria Reva
- “A Family Matter” by Claire Lynch
- “Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature” by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
- “The Ghostwriter” by Julie Clark
- “The Girls of Good Fortune” by Kristina McMorris
- “Great Black Hope” by Rob Franklin
- “Is a River Alive?” by Robert Macfarlane
- “King of Ashes” by S. A. Cosby
- “The Knight and the Moth” by Rachel Gillig
- “Left of Forever” by Tarah DeWitt
- “The Listeners” by Maggie Stiefvater
- “The Love Haters” by Katherine Center
- “Make Me Famous” by Maud Ventura, Gretchen Schmid (Transl.)
- “Notes on Infinity” by Austin Taylor
- “Of Monsters and Mainframes” by Barbara Truelove
- “The River Is Waiting” by Wally Lamb
- “The River's Daughter” by Bridget Crocker
- “Run for the Hills” by Kevin Wilson
- “The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life” by Helen Whybrow
- “So Far Gone” by Jess Walter
- “The Summer We Ran” by Audrey Ingram