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October Indie Next List
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Oct 17, 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: “Heart the Lover” by Lily King
- “Alchemy of Secrets” by Stephanie Garber
- “Among the Burning Flowers” by Samantha Shannon
- “Awake: A Memoir” by Jen Hatmaker
- “Bog Queen” by Anna North
- “The Book of Guilt” by Catherine Chidgey
- “Cinder House” by Freya Marske
- “Exiles” by Mason Coile
- “The Four Spent the Day Together” by Chris Kraus
- “Good and Evil and Other Stories” by Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell (Transl.)
- “In a Distant Valley” by Shannon Bowring
- “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” by Kiran Desai
- “Overdue” by Stephanie Perkins
- “The Phoebe Variations” by Jane Hamilton
- “Red City” by Marie Lu
- “Sister Creatures” by Laura Venita Green
- “Soul Searching” by Lyla Sage
- “Spread Me” by Sarah Gailey
- “The Wax Child” by Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken (Transl.)
- “We Love You, Bunny” by Mona Awad
- “We Survived the Night” by Julian Brave NoiseCat
- “What We Can Know” by Ian McEwan
- “The Wilderness” by Angela Flournoy
- “Will There Ever Be Another You” by Patricia Lockwood
- “The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery” by Siddharth Kara