2011 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

Starred Review

The Year of the Hare
(*)
Arto Paasilinna

The Snowman
(*)
Jo Nesbo

Instruments of Darkness
(*)
Imogen Robertson

The Mistress of Nothing
(*)
Kate Pullinger

Galore
(*)
Michael Crummey

In the Fabled East
(*)
Adam Lewis Schroeder

A Thousand Cuts
(*)
Simon Lelic

The Beauty of Humanity Movement
(*)
Camilla Gibb

The Radleys
(*)
Matt Haig

The Sherlockian
(*)
Graham Moore

Blind Your Ponies
(*)
Stanley Gordon West

Clara and Mr. Tiffany
(*)
Susan Vreeland

The Death Instinct
(*)
Jed Rubenfeld

From the Land of the Moon
(*)
Milena Agus

Gideon's War
(*)
Howard Gordon

The Janus Stone
(*)
Elly Griffiths

The Lake of Dreams
(*)
Kim Edwards

Left Neglected
(*)
Lisa Genova

A Lonely Death
(*)
Charles Todd

The Memory of Love
(*)
Aminatta Forna

The Poison Tree
(*)
Erin Kelly

Precious and Fragile Things
(*)
Megan Hart

These Things Hidden
(*)
Heather Gudenkauf

This Glittering World
(*)
T. Greenwood

The Weird Sisters
(*)
Eleanor Brown

You Know When the Men Are Gone
(*)
Siobhan Fallon

1Q84
(*)
Haruki Murakami

Agent X
(*)
Noah Boyd

The Devotion of Suspect X
(*)
Keigo Higashino

A Discovery of Witches
(*)
Deborah Harkness

The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
(*)
Benjamin Hale

The Fates Will Find Their Way
(*)
Hannah Pittard

Ghost Light
(*)
Joseph O'Connor

Gone
(*)
Mo Hayder

The Illumination
(*)
Kevin Brockmeier

The Oracle of Stamboul
(*)
Michael David Lukas

The Other Life
(*)
Ellen Meister

The Paris Wife
(*)
Paula McLain

The Red Garden
(*)
Alice Hoffman

The Storyteller of Marrakesh
(*)
Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Swamplandia!
(*)
Karen Russell

The Terror of Living
(*)
Urban Waite

West of Here
(*)
Jonathan Evison

Cleaning Nabokov's House
(*)
Leslie Daniels

Emily, Alone
(*)
Stewart O'Nan

Sing You Home
(*)
Jodi Picoult

Three Stages of Amazement
(*)
Carol Edgarian

The Tiger's Wife
(*)
Tea Obreht

The Trinity Six
(*)
Charles Cumming

When the Killing's Done
(*)
T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

The Coffins of Little Hope
(*)
Timothy Schaffert

Drawing Conclusions
(*)
Donna Leon

Guilt by Association
(*)
Marcia Clark

Heads You Lose
(*)
Lisa Lutz

The Last Werewolf
(*)
Glen Duncan

A Lesson in Secrets
(*)
Jacqueline Winspear

Night Road
(*)
Kristin Hannah

Please Look After Mom
(*)
Kyung-Sook Shin

Say Her Name
(*)
Francisco Goldman

The School of Night
(*)
Louis Bayard

Seeds
(*)
Richard Horan

The Sojourn
(*)
Andrew Krivak

The Troubled Man
(*)
Henning Mankell

The Uncoupling
(*)
Meg Wolitzer

22 Britannia Road
(*)
Amanda Hodgkinson

Caleb's Crossing
(*)
Geraldine Brooks

A Conflict of Interest
(*)
Adam Mitzner

Doc
(*)
Mary Doria Russell

Eleven
(*)
Mark Watson

Faith
(*)
Jennifer Haigh

Graveminder
(*)
Melissa Marr

The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
(*)
Alina Bronsky

In the Garden of Beasts
(*)
Erik Larson

Oil on Water
(*)
Helon Habila

The Sisters Brothers
(*)
Patrick deWitt

Some Time in the Sun
(*)
John Sayles

The Story of Beautiful Girl
(*)
Rachel Simon

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
(*)
Christie Watson

Vaclav and Lena
(*)
Haley Tanner

The Year We Left Home
(*)
Jean Thompson

You Believers
(*)
Jane Bradley

Before I Go to Sleep
(*)
S.J. Watson

Best Staged Plans
(*)
Claire Cook

The Borrower
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

Joy for Beginners
(*)
Erica Bauermeister

The Little Women Letters
(*)
Gabrielle Donnelly

Silver Sparrow
(*)
Tayari Jones

Sister
(*)
Rosamund Lupton

South of Superior
(*)
Ellen Airgood

State of Wonder
(*)
Ann Patchett

The Summer of the Bear
(*)
Bella Pollen

Ten Thousand Saints
(*)
Eleanor Henderson

To Be Sung Underwater
(*)
Tom Mcneal

The Upright Piano Player
(*)
David Abbott

The Devil All the Time
(*)
Donald Ray Pollock

Dominance
(*)
Will Lavender

The End of Everything
(*)
Megan Abbott

Everything Beautiful Began After
(*)
Simon Van Booy

A Good Hard Look
(*)
Ann Napolitano

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
(*)
Jenny Wingfield

The Hypnotist
(*)
Lars Kepler

In the Darkness of the Garden
(*)
Margaret Leroy

Iron House
(*)
John Hart

The Map of Time
(*)
Felix J. Palma

Once upon a River
(*)
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Original Sin
(*)
Beth McMullen

Pao
(*)
Kerry Young

Plugged
(*)
Eoin Colfer

The Reservoir
(*)
John Milliken Thompson

The Return of Captain John Emmett
(*)
Elizabeth Speller

This Burns My Heart
(*)
Samuel Park

Trespasser
(*)
Paul Doiron

Turn of Mind
(*)
Alice LaPlante

Untold Story
(*)
Monica Ali

The Adjustment
(*)
Scott Phillips

Among the Wonderful
(*)
Stacy Carlson

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
(*)
Melanie Benjamin

The Call
(*)
Yannick Murphy

Coming Up for Air
(*)
Patti Callahan Henry

Domestic Violets
(*)
Matthew Norman

The Family Fang
(*)
Kevin Wilson

Girls in White Dresses
(*)
Jennifer Close

The Lantern
(*)
Deborah Lawrenson

The Magician King
(*)
Lev Grossman

Next to Love
(*)
Ellen Feldman

Ready Player One
(*)
Ernest Cline

Rules of Civility
(*)
Amor Towles

Spycatcher
(*)
Matthew Dunn

Unsaid
(*)
Neil Abramson

The Art of Fielding
(*)
Chad Harbach

Birds of Paradise
(*)
Diana Abu-Jaber

I Married You for Happiness
(*)
Lily Tuck

The Keeper of Lost Causes
(*)
Jussi Adler-Olsen

Lamb
(*)
Bonnie Nadzam

The Language of Flowers
(*)
Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The Leftovers
(*)
Tom Perrotta

The Most Dangerous Thing
(*)
Laura Lippman

The Night Circus
(*)
Erin Morgenstern

Northwest Angle
(*)
William Kent Krueger

Reamde
(*)
Neal Stephenson

Salvage the Bones
(*)
Jesmyn Ward

A Trick of the Light
(*)
Louise Penny

We the Animals
(*)
Justin Torres

The Winters in Bloom
(*)
Lisa Tucker

You Deserve Nothing
(*)
Alexander Kolya Maksik

Aloha from Hell
(*)
Richard Kadrey

American Boy
(*)
Larry Watson

The Best American Noir of the Century
(*)
James Ellroy

The Cat's Table
(*)
Michael Ondaatje

Damascus
(*)
Joshua Mohr

Damned
(*)
Chuck Palahniuk

The Dovekeepers
(*)
Alice Hoffman

Ed King
(*)
David Guterson

Falling Together
(*)
Marisa de los Santos

Feast Day of Fools
(*)
James Lee Burke

The Forgotten Waltz
(*)
Anne Enright

Harbor
(*)
John Ajvide Lindqvist

If Jack's in Love
(*)
Stephen Wetta

The Lady of the Rivers
(*)
Philippa Gregory

Lost Memory of Skin
(*)
Russell Banks

The Marriage Plot
(*)
Jeffrey Eugenides

The Train of Small Mercies
(*)
David Rowell

Triangles
(*)
Ellen Hopkins

The Wandering Falcon
(*)
Jamil Ahmad

The Wedding Quilt
(*)
Jennifer Chiaverini

When She Woke
(*)
Hillary Jordan

Zone One
(*)
Colson Whitehead

The Angel Esmeralda
(*)
Don DeLillo

Blue Nights
(*)
Joan Didion

The Boy in the Suitcase
(*)
Lene Kaaberbol; Agnete Friis

The Drop
(*)
Michael Connelly

I Am Half-sick of Shadows
(*)
Alan Bradley

Lightning Rods
(*)
Helen DeWitt

Men in the Making
(*)
Bruce Machart

The Pilgrim
(*)
Hugh Nissenson

The Prague Cemetery
(*)
Umberto Eco

Rain Falls Like Mercy
(*)
Jack Todd

The Sisters
(*)
Nancy Jensen

Three-day Town
(*)
Margaret Maron

White Truffles in Winter
(*)
N.M. Kelby

420 Characters
(*)
Lou Beach

The Angel Makers
(*)
Jessica Gregson

Family Legacy
(*)
Jack O'Halloran

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