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September Indie Next List
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September 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: “Creation Lake” by Rachel Kushner
- “Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home” by Chris La Tray
- “Best Copy Available: A True Crime Memoir” by Jay Baron Nicorvo
- “Blue Sisters” by Coco Mellors
- “Bluff: Poems” by Danez Smith
- “The Book Swap” by Tessa Bickers
- “By Any Other Name” by Jodi Picoult
- “Colored Television” by Danzy Senna
- “The Examiner” by Janice Hallett
- “I'll Have What He’s Having” by Adib Khorram
- “The Instrumentalist” by Harriet Constable
- “The Life Impossible” by Matt Haig
- “Madwoman” by Chelsea Bieker
- “The Night Guest" by Hildur Knútsdóttir, Mary Robinette Kowal (Transl.)
- “Somewhere Beyond the Sea” by TJ Klune
- “Spirit Crossing” by William Kent Krueger
- “The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and a Medical Miracle” by Rachel Clarke
- “Tell Me Everything” by Elizabeth Strout
- “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America” by Amanda Jones
- “There Are Rivers in the Sky” by Elif Shafak
- “Under the Eye of the Big Bird” by Hiromi Kawakami, Asa Yoneda (Transl.)
- “We’re Alone: Essays” by Edwidge Danticat
- “Where the Forest Meets the River” by Shannon Bowring
- “The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts” by Louis Bayard
- “William” by Mason Coile