2012 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

Starred Review

Into the Darkest Corner
(*)
Elizabeth Haynes

Hand for a Hand
(*)
Frank Muir / T. Frank Muir

The Anatomy of Murder
(*)
Imogen Robertson

The Other Woman's House // Lasting Damage
(*)
Sophie Hannah

All Fall Down
(*)
Megan Hart

All the Flowers in Shanghai
(*)
Duncan Jepson

The House at Tyneford
(*)
Natasha Solomons

Winter
(*)
Rod Rees

Agent 6
(*)
Tom Rob Smith

American Dervish
(*)
Ayad Akhtar

Believing the Lie
(*)
Elizabeth George

Blueprints of the Afterlife
(*)
Ryan Boudinot

The Chalk Girl
(*)
Carol O'Connell

A Charitable Body
(*)
Robert Barnard

The Face Thief
(*)
Eli Gottlieb

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
(*)
Alex Gilvarry

The Gilder
(*)
Kathryn Kay

Glaciers
(*)
Alexis Smith

The Invisible Ones
(*)
Stef Penney

The Odds
(*)
Stewart O'Nan

The Orphan Master's Son
(*)
Adam Johnson

Running the Rift
(*)
Naomi Benaron

Vulture Peak
(*)
John Burdett

The World We Found
(*)
Thrity Umrigar

All That I Am
(*)
Anna Funder

Contents May Have Shifted
(*)
Pam Houston

Country of the Bad Wolfes
(*)
James Carlos Blake

Defending Jacob
(*)
William Landay

Flatscreen
(*)
Adam Wilson

The Flight of Gemma Hardy
(*)
Margot Livesey

A Good American
(*)
Alex George

A Grown-up Kind of Pretty
(*)
Joshilyn Jackson

Heft
(*)
Liz Moore

History of a Pleasure Seeker
(*)
Richard Mason

The Lost Saints of Tennessee
(*)
Amy Franklin-Willis

The Mirage
(*)
Matt Ruff

No One Is Here Except All of Us
(*)
Ramona Ausubel

Pure
(*)
Julianna Baggott

The Snow Child
(*)
Eowyn Ivey

Three Weeks in December
(*)
Audrey Schulman

Until the Next Time
(*)
Kevin Fox

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
(*)
Nathan Englander

Angelmaker
(*)
Nick Harkaway

Arcadia
(*)
Lauren Groff

Birds of a Lesser Paradise
(*)
Megan Mayhew Bergman

The Book of Jonas
(*)
Stephen Dau

The Book of Lost Fragrances
(*)
M.J. Rose

Carry the One
(*)
Carol Anshaw

The Dog Who Danced
(*)
Susan Wilson

The Dressmaker
(*)
Kate Alcott

The Expats
(*)
Chris Pavone

Forgotten Country
(*)
Catherine Chung

The Gods of Gotham
(*)
Lyndsay Faye

The Good Father
(*)
Noah Hawley

The Healing
(*)
Jonathan Odell

Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
(*)
Cara Black

The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac
(*)
Kris D'Agostino

The Song of Achilles
(*)
Madeline Miller

The Starboard Sea
(*)
Amber Dermont

Beastly Things
(*)
Donna Leon

The Beginner's Goodbye
(*)
Anne Tyler

The Book of Madness and Cures
(*)
Regina O'Melveny

The Coldest Night
(*)
Robert Olmstead

The Cove
(*)
Ron Rash

A Deeper Darkness
(*)
J.T. Ellison

Elegy for Eddie
(*)
Jacqueline Winspear

Grace
(*)
T. Greenwood

The House of Velvet and Glass
(*)
Katherine Howe

The Inquisitor
(*)
Mark Allen Smith

A Land More Kind Than Home
(*)
Wiley Cash

The Lifeboat
(*)
Charlotte Rogan

Miss Fuller
(*)
April Bernard

The Professionals
(*)
Owen Laukkanen

The Red Book
(*)
Deborah Copaken Kogan

The Right-Hand Shore
(*)
Christopher Tilghman

Sacre Bleu
(*)
Christopher Moore

Truth Like the Sun
(*)
Jim Lynch

Waiting for Sunrise
(*)
William Boyd

All Woman and Springtime
(*)
Brandon W. Jones

As the Crow Flies
(*)
Craig Johnson

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
(*)
Ben Fountain

Boleto
(*)
Alyson Hagy

Book Lover
(*)
Maryann McFadden

Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
(*)
Lynda Rutledge

Freeman
(*)
Leonard Pitts Jr.

In One Person
(*)
John Irving

A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
(*)
Suzanne Joinson

The Lola Quartet
(*)
Emily St. John Mandel

The Lower River
(*)
Paul Theroux

Shelter
(*)
Frances Greenslade

Trapeze
(*)
Simon Mawer

The Uninvited Guests
(*)
Sadie Jones

The 500
(*)
Matthew Quirk

Alif the Unseen
(*)
G. Willow Wilson

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
(*)
Jan-Philipp Sendker

The Beautiful Ruins
(*)
Jess Walter

The Bird Saviors
(*)
William J. Cobb

Canada
(*)
Richard Ford

Capital
(*)
John Lanchester

The Chaperone
(*)
Laura Moriarty

Equal of the Sun
(*)
Anita Amirrezvani

Gone Girl
(*)
Gillian Flynn

The Green Shore
(*)
Natalie Bakopoulos

Growing Up Dead in Texas
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

Heading Out to Wonderful
(*)
Robert Goolrick

The Innocents
(*)
Francesca Segal

Istanbul Passage
(*)
Joseph Kanon

The Red House
(*)
Mark Haddon

Seating Arrangements
(*)
Maggie Shipstead

Wallflower in Bloom
(*)
Claire Cook

The Watch
(*)
Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

The Watchers
(*)
Jon Steele

The World Without You
(*)
Joshua Henkin

The Yard
(*)
Alex Grecian

15 Seconds
(*)
Andrew Gross

The Age of Miracles
(*)
Karen Thompson Walker

Albert of Adelaide
(*)
Howard Anderson

Broken Harbor
(*)
Tana French

The Collective
(*)
Don Lee

Gold
(*)
Chris Cleave

Juliet in August
(*)
Dianne Warren

The Last Policeman
(*)
Ben H. Winters

The Sandcastle Girls
(*)
Chris Bohjalian

Shadow of Night
(*)
Deborah Harkness

Shine Shine Shine
(*)
Lydia Netzer

Shout Her Lovely Name
(*)
Natalie Serber

Some Kind of Fairy Tale
(*)
Graham Joyce

Some Kind of Peace
(*)
Camilla Grebe; Asa Traff

Tigers in Red Weather
(*)
Liza Klaussmann

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
(*)
Rachel Joyce

The Bartender's Tale
(*)
Ivan Doig

Battleborn
(*)
Claire Vaye Watkins

The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns
(*)
Margaret Dilloway

City of Women
(*)
David R. Gillham

The Dog Stars
(*)
Peter Heller

A Foreign Country
(*)
Charles Cumming

A Hundred Flowers
(*)
Gail Tsukiyama

In the Shadow of the Banyan
(*)
Vaddey Ratner

A Killing in the Hills
(*)
Julia Keller

The Light Between Oceans
(*)
M.L. Stedman

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
(*)
Matthew Dicks

The Orchardist
(*)
Amanda Coplin

The Roots of the Olive Tree
(*)
Courtney Miller Santo

Vengeance
(*)
Benjamin Black

Widow's Might
(*)
Sandra Brannan

You & Me
(*)
Padgett Powell

The Beautiful Mystery
(*)
Louise Penny

Black Fridays
(*)
Michael Sears

Fobbit
(*)
David Abrams

In Between Days
(*)
Andrew Porter

John Saturnall's Feast
(*)
Lawrence Norfolk

Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
(*)
Emma Straub

Love Anthony
(*)
Lisa Genova

The Malice of Fortune
(*)
Michael Ennis

The Map of the Sky
(*)
Felix J. Palma

The Other Woman
(*)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
(*)
Shani Boianjiu

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
(*)
Jonathan Evison

Shadow Man
(*)
Jeffrey Fleishman

Sutton
(*)
J.R. Moehringer

Telegraph Avenue
(*)
Michael Chabon

This Is How You Lose Her
(*)
Junot Diaz

Those We Love Most
(*)
Lee Woodruff

The Vanishing Act
(*)
Mette Jakobsen

The White Forest
(*)
Adam McOmber

The Yellow Birds
(*)
Kevin Powers

Accelerated
(*)
Bronwen Hruska

The Art Forger
(*)
B.A. Shapiro

How I Came to Sparkle Again
(*)
Kaya McLaren

In Sunlight and in Shadow
(*)
Mark Helprin

It's Fine By Me
(*)
Per Petterson

The Lighthouse Road
(*)
Peter Geye

Live by Night
(*)
Dennis Lehane

May We Be Forgiven
(*)
A.M. Homes

The Middlesteins
(*)
Jami Attenberg

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
(*)
Robin Sloan

Mrs. Queen Takes the Train
(*)
William Kuhn

The News from Spain
(*)
Joan Wickersham

The Paternity Test
(*)
Michael Lowenthal

Phantom
(*)
Jo Nesbo

The Round House
(*)
Louise Erdrich

The Stockholm Octavo
(*)
Karen Engelmann

The Twelve
(*)
Justin Cronin

Astray
(*)
Emma Donoghue

The Boy in the Snow
(*)
M.J. McGrath

Cold Quiet Country
(*)
Clayton Lindemuth

The Cold Cold Ground
(*)
Adrian McKinty

The Confidant
(*)
Helene Gremillon

Crossing on the Paris
(*)
Dana Gynther

Dear Life: Stories
(*)
Alice Munro

Eight Girls Taking Pictures
(*)
Whitney Otto

Flight Behavior
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

Leon and Louise
(*)
Alex Capus

Life Among Giants
(*)
Bill Roorbach

Magnificence
(*)
Lydia Millet

A Question of Identity
(*)
Susan Hill

Song of the Vikings
(*)
Nancy Marie Brown

Sweet Tooth
(*)
Ian McEwan

The Black Box
(*)
Michael Connelly

City of Dark Magic
(*)
Magnus Flyte

A Possible Life
(*)
Sebastian Faulks

Raised from the Ground
(*)
Jose Saramago

The Valley of the Shadow
(*)
Carola Dunn

The Valley of Unknowing
(*)
Philip Sington

Memoir of the Sunday Brunch
(*)
Julia Pandl

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