2010 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

Starred Review

Clouds Without Rain
(*)
P.L. Gaus / Paul L. Gaus

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
(*)
Ann Weisgarber

The Great Lover
(*)
Jill Dawson

Little Bee
(*)
Chris Cleave

Brooklyn
(*)
Colm Toibin

The Crossing Places
(*)
Elly Griffiths

Mr. Toppit
(*)
Charles Elton

The Solitude of Prime Numbers
(*)
Paolo Giordano

Purge
(*)
Sofi Oksanen

Ape House
(*)
Sara Gruen

Best European Fiction
(*)
Aleksandar Hemon

The Girl Next Door
(*)
Elizabeth Noble

Alice I Have Been
(*)
Melanie Benjamin

Bloodroot
(*)
Amy Greene

The Breach
(*)
Patrick Lee

The First Rule
(*)
Robert Crais

The Girl with Glass Feet
(*)
Ali Shaw

An Irish Country Girl
(*)
Patrick Taylor

The Privileges
(*)
Jonathan Dee

The Red Door
(*)
Charles Todd

Remarkable Creatures
(*)
Tracy Chevalier

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
(*)
Beth Hoffman

Shades of Grey
(*)
Jasper Fforde

The Swan Thieves
(*)
Elizabeth Kostova

Then Came the Evening
(*)
Brian Hart

Thereby Hangs a Tail
(*)
Spencer Quinn

The Unnamed
(*)
Joshua Ferris

After the Workshop: A Memoir by Jack Hercules Sheahan
(*)
John McNally

Apparition & Late Fictions
(*)
Thomas Lynch

The Book of Fires
(*)
Jane Borodale

The Bricklayer
(*)
Noah Boyd

City of Dragons
(*)
Kelli Stanley

The Crimson Rooms
(*)
Katharine McMahon

First Contact, Or, It's Later Than You Think
(*)
Evan Mandery

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
(*)
Heidi W. Durrow

Heliopolis
(*)
James Scudamore

Horns
(*)
Joe Hill

The Man from Beijing
(*)
Henning Mankell

One Amazing Thing
(*)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Ordinary Thunderstorms
(*)
William Boyd

The Other Family
(*)
Joanna Trollope

Postcards from a Dead Girl
(*)
Kirk Farber

The Postmistress
(*)
Sarah Blake

Remind Me Who I Am
(*)
Chris Bohjalian

The Room and the Chair
(*)
Lorraine Adams

Shadow Tag
(*)
Louise Erdrich

Union Atlantic
(*)
Adam Haslett

Winter Garden
(*)
Kristin Hannah

Angelology
(*)
Danielle Trussoni

Bone Fire
(*)
Mark Spragg

Chef
(*)
Jaspreet Singh

The Dream of Perpetual Motion
(*)
Dexter Palmer

The Hole We're In
(*)
Gabrielle Zevin

House Rules
(*)
Jodi Picoult

The House of Tomorrow
(*)
Peter Bognanni

Impatient with Desire
(*)
Gabrielle Burton

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
(*)
Helen Simonson

Matterhorn
(*)
Karl Marlantes

One Good Dog
(*)
Susan Wilson

Secret Daughter
(*)
Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Seeing Stars
(*)
Diane Hammond

The Spellmans Strike Again
(*)
Lisa Lutz

The Surrendered
(*)
Chang-Rae Lee

31 Bond Street
(*)
Ellen Horan

Anthill
(*)
E.O. Wilson

Beatrice and Virgil
(*)
Yann Martel

Bite Me
(*)
Christopher Moore

The Bride Collector
(*)
Ted Dekker

The Creation of Eve
(*)
Lynn Cullen

The Hand That First Held Mine
(*)
Maggie O'Farrell

I Thought You Were Dead
(*)
Peter Nelson

The Lake Shore Limited
(*)
Sue Miller

Lean on Pete
(*)
Willy Vlautin

The Mapping of Love and Death
(*)
Jacqueline Winspear

A Murderous Procession
(*)
Ariana Franklin

Nowhere to Run
(*)
C.J. Box

Parrot and Olivier in America
(*)
Peter Carey

The Season of Second Chances
(*)
Diane Meier

Solar
(*)
Ian McEwan

The Tale of Halcyon Crane
(*)
Wendy Webb

Whiter Than Snow
(*)
Sandra Dallas

The Ark // The Noah's Ark Quest
(*)
Boyd Morrison

Day for Night
(*)
Frederick Reiken

Diamond Ruby
(*)
Joseph Wallace

Girl in Translation
(*)
Jean Kwok

The Hypnotist
(*)
M.J. Rose

The Invisible Bridge
(*)
Julie Orringer

The Lies We Told
(*)
Diane Chamberlain

The Lonely Polygamist
(*)
Brady Udall

The Map of True Places
(*)
Brunonia Barry

The Marrowbone Marble Company
(*)
Glenn Taylor

My Name Is Mary Sutter
(*)
Robin Oliveira

The Nearest Exit
(*)
Olen Steinhauer

The Red Thread
(*)
Ann Hood

The Singer's Gun
(*)
Emily St. John Mandel

Tomorrow River
(*)
Lesley Kagen

Wanna Get Lucky?
(*)
Deborah Coonts

The Burning Wire
(*)
Jeffery Deaver

A Fierce Radiance
(*)
Lauren Belfer

Heart of Lies
(*)
M.L. Malcolm

The Ice Princess
(*)
Camilla Lackberg

Junkyard Dogs
(*)
Craig Johnson

The Madonnas of Echo Park
(*)
Brando Skyhorse

My Name Is Memory
(*)
Ann Brashares

The News Where You Are
(*)
Catherine O'Flynn

The Nobodies Album
(*)
Carolyn Parkhurst

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
(*)
Aimee Bender

The Passage
(*)
Justin Cronin

Seven Year Switch
(*)
Claire Cook

So Cold the River
(*)
Michael Koryta

A Visit from the Goon Squad
(*)
Jennifer Egan

Who Fears Death?
(*)
Nnedi Okorafor

The Blind Contessa's New Machine
(*)
Carey Wallace

The Cookbook Collector
(*)
Allegra Goodman

Crashers
(*)
Dana Haynes

Faithful Place
(*)
Tana French

Father of the Rain
(*)
Lily King

The Hundred-foot Journey
(*)
Richard C. Morais

Mr. Peanut
(*)
Adam Ross

The Quickening
(*)
Michelle Hoover

Savages
(*)
Don Winslow

Still Missing
(*)
Chevy Stevens

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
(*)
David Mitchell

What Is Left the Daughter
(*)
Howard Norman

Work Song
(*)
Ivan Doig

The Blessings of the Animals
(*)
Katrina Kittle

Burn
(*)
Nevada Barr

City of Veils
(*)
Zoe Ferraris

Displaced Persons
(*)
Ghita Schwarz

The Hanging Tree
(*)
Bryan Gruley

The Homecoming Party
(*)
Carmine Abate

I Curse the River of Time
(*)
Per Petterson

I'd Know You Anywhere
(*)
Laura Lippman

In Harm's Way
(*)
Ridley Pearson

The Moses Expedition
(*)
Juan Gomez-Jurado

The Murder Room
(*)
Michael Capuzzo

A Small Death in the Great Glen
(*)
A.D. Scott

Strangers at the Feast
(*)
Jennifer Vanderbes

Super Sad True Love Story
(*)
Gary Shteyngart

The Typist
(*)
Michael Knight

The Bells
(*)
Richard Harvell

The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
(*)
Mary Helen Stefaniak

Freedom
(*)
Jonathan Franzen

The Gendarme
(*)
Mark Mustian

The Good Daughters
(*)
Joyce Maynard

Healer
(*)
Carol Cassella

Hector and the Search for Happiness
(*)
Francois Lelord

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
(*)
Charles Yu

An Impartial Witness
(*)
Charles Todd

Juliet
(*)
Anne Fortier

The Lady Matador's Hotel
(*)
Cristina Garcia

The Mullah's Storm
(*)
Thomas W. Young

Room
(*)
Emma Donoghue

Russian Winter
(*)
Daphne Kalotay

Salvation City
(*)
Sigrid Nunez

A Secret Kept
(*)
Tatiana de Rosnay

Vermilion Drift
(*)
William Kent Krueger

Vestments
(*)
John Reimringer

The Witch of Hebron
(*)
James Howard Kunstler

Adam & Eve
(*)
Sena Jeter Naslund

Bury Your Dead
(*)
Louise Penny

By Nightfall
(*)
Michael Cunningham

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
(*)
Tom Franklin

Dogfight, a Love Story
(*)
Matt Burgess

Driving on the Rim
(*)
Thomas McGuane

Exley
(*)
Brock Clarke

The Fall
(*)
Guillermo del Toro; Chuck Hogan

The False Friend
(*)
Myla Goldberg

Great House
(*)
Nicole Krauss

How to Read the Air
(*)
Dinaw Mengestu

A Lily of the Field
(*)
John Lawton

Nemesis
(*)
Philip Roth

To Fetch a Thief
(*)
Spencer Quinn

The Wake of Forgiveness
(*)
Bruce Machart

The Distant Hours
(*)
Kate Morton

Hygiene and Assassin
(*)
Amelie Nothomb

Lipstick in Afghanistan
(*)
Roberta Gately

Luka and the Fire of Life
(*)
Salman Rushdie

Mary Ann in Autumn
(*)
Armistead Maupin

Moonlight Mile
(*)
Dennis Lehane

The Neighbors Are Watching
(*)
Debra Ginsberg

A Secret Gift
(*)
Ted Gup

Sunset Park
(*)
Paul Auster

Unbroken
(*)
Laura Hillenbrand

The Wolves of Andover // The Traitor's Wife
(*)
Kathleen Kent

Hull Zero Three
(*)
Greg Bear

An Object of Beauty
(*)
Steve Martin

Rescue
(*)
Anita Shreve

Sea Change
(*)
Jeremy Page

Music of the Distant Stars
(*)
Alys Clare

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