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September Indie Next List
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Sep 8, 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: “Katabasis” by R. F. Kuang
- “The Book of I” by David Greig
- “The Book of Lost Hours” by Hayley Gelfuso
- “Buckeye” by Patrick Ryan
- “The City Changes Its Face” by Eimear McBride
- “Clown Town” by Mick Herron
- “Discontent” by Beatriz Serrano, Mara Faye Lethem (Transl.)
- “Dominion” by Addie E. Citchens
- “Epic and Lovely” by Mo Daviau
- “Happiness and Love” by Zoe Dubno
- “Hemlock & Silver” by T. Kingfisher
- “Hot Desk” by Laura Dickerman
- “Hot Wax” by M.L. Rio
- “Hothouse Bloom” by Austyn Wohlers
- “A Land So Wide” by Erin A. Craig
- “Life, and Death, and Giants” by Ron Rindo
- “Middle Spoon” by Alejandro Varela
- “Mona's Eyes” by Thomas Schlesser, Hildegarde Serle (Transl.)
- “The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy” by Roan Parrish
- “Mother Mary Comes to Me” by Arundhati Roy
- “People Watching” by Hannah Bonam-Young
- “To the Moon and Back” by Eliana Ramage
- “A Truce That Is Not Peace” by Miriam Toews
- “You Weren't Meant to Be Human” by Andrew Joseph White