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October Indie Next List
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October Indie Next List
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 Night We Lost Him” by Laura Dave
- “American Rapture” by CJ Leede
- “American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era” by Nico Lang
- “The Ancients” by John Larison
- “The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi” by Wright Thompson
- “The Bog Wife” by Kay Chronister
- “Bull Moon Rising” by Ruby Dixon
- “The Crescent Moon Tearoom” by Stacy Sivinski
- “A Dark and Drowning Tide” by Allison Saft
- “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science” by Dava Sobel
- “The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story” by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Transl.)
- “Entitlement” by Rumaan Alam
- “Graveyard Shift: A Novella” by M. L. Rio
- “Intermezzo” by Sally Rooney
- “The Last One at the Wedding” by Jason Rekulak
- “The Mighty Red” by Louise Erdrich
- “Playground” by Richard Powers
- “Season of the Swamp” by Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman (Transl.)
- “The Sequel” by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- “A Song to Drown Rivers” by Ann Liang
- “Sorcery and Small Magics” by Maiga Doocy
- “The Stone Witch of Florence” by Anna Rasche
- “A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories” by Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell (Transl.)
- “Swordcrossed” by Freya Marske
- “The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science & Poetry” by Maria Popova, Ofra Amit (Illus.)