2013 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

Starred Review

Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories
(*)
Karen Russell

The Stonecutter
(*)
Camilla Lackberg

Me Before You
(*)
JoJo Moyes

The Ambassador's Daughter
(*)
Melanie Benjamin

Cover of Snow
(*)
Jenny Milchman

The Death of Bees
(*)
Lisa O'Donnell

Dr. Brinkley's Tower
(*)
Robert Hough

The Drowning House
(*)
Elizabeth Black

Finding Camlann
(*)
Sean Pidgeon

Gun Machine
(*)
Warren Ellis

Hikikomori and the Rental Sister
(*)
Jeff Backhaus

The Intercept
(*)
Dick Wolf

Kind of Kin
(*)
Rilla Askew

Little Wolves
(*)
Thomas Maltman

The Lost Art of Mixing
(*)
Erica Bauermeister

The Painted Girls
(*)
Cathy Marie Buchanan

Snow White Must Die
(*)
Nele Neuhaus

Tenth of December
(*)
George Saunders

The Third Bullet
(*)
Stephen Hunter

Truth in Advertising
(*)
John Kenney

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
(*)
Ayana Mathis

Y
(*)
Marjorie Celona

The Affair
(*)
Colette Freedman

All This Talk of Love
(*)
Christopher Castellani

Calling Me Home
(*)
Julie Kibler

The Dinner
(*)
Herman Koch

The Fate of Mercy Alban
(*)
Wendy Webb

Fight Song
(*)
Joshua Mohr

Frances and Bernard
(*)
Carlene Bauer

Ghostman
(*)
Roger Hobbs

The House Girl
(*)
Tara Conklin

The Imposter Bride
(*)
Nancy Richler

Indiscretion
(*)
Charles Dubow

Insane City
(*)
Dave Barry

Instructions for a Heatwave
(*)
Maggie O'Farrell

The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
(*)
Teddy Wayne

The Promise of Stardust
(*)
Priscille Sibley

Schroder
(*)
Amity Gaige

The Sound of Broken Glass
(*)
Deborah Crombie

Three Graves Full
(*)
Jamie Mason

Tuscan Rose
(*)
Belinda Alexandra

We Live in Water
(*)
Jess Walter

The Andalucian Friend
(*)
Alexander Soderberg

The Beggar's Opera
(*)
Peggy Blair

Benediction
(*)
Kent Haruf

Criminal Enterprise
(*)
Owen Laukkanen

The Demonologist
(*)
Andrew Pyper

Fever
(*)
Mary Beth Keane

Ghana Must Go
(*)
Taiye Selasi

The Guilty One
(*)
Lisa Ballantyne

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
(*)
Mohsin Hamid

I Want To Show You More
(*)
Jamie Quatro

Mary Coin
(*)
Marisa Silver

The Obituary Writer
(*)
Ann Hood

Rage Against the Dying
(*)
Becky Masterman

The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
(*)
Rita Leganski

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
(*)
Edward Kelsey Moore

A Tale for the Time Being
(*)
Ruth L. Ozeki

A Thousand Pardons
(*)
Jonathan Dee

The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
(*)
Kristopher Jansma

Amity & Sorrow
(*)
Peggy Riley

The Ashford Affair
(*)
Lauren Willig

Being Esther
(*)
Miriam Karmel

The Burgess Boys
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

The Carrion Birds
(*)
Urban Waite

The Edge of the Earth
(*)
Christina Schwarz

The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope
(*)
Rhonda Riley

The Golem and the Jinni
(*)
Helene Wecker

Leaving Everything Most Loved
(*)
Jacqueline Winspear

Life After Life
(*)
Kate Atkinson

Life After Life
(*)
Jill McCorkle

Love Water Memory
(*)
Jennie Shortridge

The Mothers
(*)
Jennifer Gilmore

Ordinary Grace
(*)
William Kent Krueger

The President's Hat
(*)
Antoine Laurain

Reconstructing Amelia
(*)
Kimberly McCreight

The River of No Return
(*)
Bee Ridgway

Snapper
(*)
Brian Kimberling

Woke Up Lonely
(*)
Fiona Maazel

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
(*)
Therese Anne Fowler

And the Mountains Echoed
(*)
Khaled Hosseini

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
(*)
Anthony Marra

Flora
(*)
Gail Godwin

Is This Tomorrow
(*)
Caroline Leavitt

Jewelweed
(*)
David Rhodes

The Kings and Queens of Roam
(*)
Daniel Wallace

Nos4a2
(*)
Joe Hill

The Ophelia Cut
(*)
John T. Lescroart

Red Moon
(*)
Benjamin Percy

River of Dust
(*)
Virginia Pye

The Seduction of Victor Hugo
(*)
M.J. Rose

We Need New Names
(*)
Noviolet Bulawayo

The Woman Upstairs
(*)
Claire Messud

The Blood of Heaven
(*)
Kent Wascom

Children of the Jacaranda Tree
(*)
Sahar Delijani

Cinnamon and Gunpowder
(*)
Eli Brown

Crime of Privilege
(*)
Walter Walker

Flat Water Tuesday
(*)
Ron Irwin

Good Kings Bad Kings
(*)
Susan Nussbaum

If You Were Here
(*)
Alafair Burke

The Illusion of Separateness
(*)
Simon Van Booy

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
(*)
Andrew Sean Greer

In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
(*)
Matt Bell

The Last Summer of the Camperdowns
(*)
Elizabeth Kelly

Lexicon
(*)
Max Barry

Looking for Me
(*)
Beth Hoffman

Loyalty
(*)
Ingrid Thoft

Norwegian by Night
(*)
Derek Miller

The Ocean at the End of the Lane
(*)
Neil Gaiman

On Sal Mal Lane
(*)
Ru Freeman

A Place at the Table
(*)
Susan Rebecca White

Red Sparrow
(*)
Jason Matthews

The Silver Star
(*)
Jeannette Walls

Sisterland
(*)
Curtis Sittenfeld

The Son
(*)
Philipp Meyer

Sweet Salt Air
(*)
Barbara Delinsky

Taipei
(*)
Tao Lin

Time Flies
(*)
Claire Cook

Transatlantic
(*)
Colum McCann

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
(*)
Karen Joy Fowler

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
(*)
Anton Disclafani

Amy Falls Down
(*)
Jincy Willett

Countdown City
(*)
Ben H. Winters

The Curiosity
(*)
Stephen P. Kiernan

Fin & Lady
(*)
Cathleen Schine

Letters from Skye
(*)
Jessica Brockmole

Massacre Pond
(*)
Paul Doiron

The Never List
(*)
Koethi Zan

The Resurrectionist
(*)
Matthew Guinn

Return to Oakpine
(*)
Ron Carlson

Traveling Light
(*)
Andrea Thalasinos

Whistling Past the Graveyard
(*)
Susan Crandall

After Her
(*)
Joyce Maynard

Babayaga
(*)
Toby Barlow

The Bone Season
(*)
Samantha Shannon

Brewster
(*)
Mark Slouka

The Butterfly Sister
(*)
Amy Gail Hansen

The Gamal
(*)
Ciaran Collins

The Ghost Bride
(*)
Yangsze Choo

The Girl You Left Behind
(*)
JoJo Moyes

The Gravity of Birds
(*)
Tracy Guzeman

Lookaway, Lookaway
(*)
Wilton Barnhardt

A Marker to Measure Drift
(*)
Alexander Maksik

Night Film
(*)
Marisha Pessl

Paris Was the Place
(*)
Susan Conley

The Rathbones
(*)
Janice Clark

Snow Hunters
(*)
Paul Yoon

The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
(*)
Emily Croy Barker

The Affairs of Others
(*)
Amy Grace Loyd

Alex
(*)
Pierre Lemaitre

Bitter River
(*)
Julia Keller

Burial Rites
(*)
Hannah Kent

Dark Lies the Island: Stories
(*)
Kevin Barry

Enon
(*)
Paul Harding

The Fountain of St. James Court; Or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman
(*)
Sena Jeter Naslund

How the Light Gets in
(*)
Louise Penny

Let Him Go
(*)
Larry Watson

The Lowland
(*)
Jhumpa Lahiri

The Returned
(*)
Jason Mott

Rivers
(*)
Michael Farris Smith

Seven for a Secret
(*)
Lyndsay Faye

Someone
(*)
Alice McDermott

Songs of Willow Frost
(*)
Jamie Ford

The Circle of Thirteen
(*)
William Petrocelli

Guests on Earth
(*)
Lee Smith

The Last Animal
(*)
Abby Geni

The Last Banquet
(*)
Jonathan Grimwood

Lighthouse Island
(*)
Paulette Jiles

The Lion Seeker
(*)
Kenneth Bonert

Longbourn
(*)
Jo Baker

Mrs. Poe
(*)
Lynn Cullen

The Night Guest
(*)
Fiona McFarlane

The Paris Architect
(*)
Charles Belfoure

Quiet Dell
(*)
Jayne Anne Phillips

The Rosie Project
(*)
Graeme Simsion

The Signature of All Things
(*)
Elizabeth Gilbert

Three Can Keep a Secret
(*)
Archer Mayor

Thursdays in the Park
(*)
Hilary Boyd

The Tilted World
(*)
Tom Franklin; Beth Ann Fennelly

The Two Hotel Francforts
(*)
David Leavitt

We Are Water
(*)
Wally Lamb

At Night We Walk in Circles
(*)
Daniel Alarcon

Bellman & Black
(*)
Diane Setterfield

The Cartographer of No Man's Land
(*)
P.S. Duffy

Death of a Nightingale
(*)
Lene Kaaberbol; Agnete Friis

Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
(*)
Sebastian Faulks

Monument Road
(*)
Charlie Quimby

Someone Else's Love Story
(*)
Joshilyn Jackson

Stop Here
(*)
Beverly Gologorsky

Tatiana
(*)
Martin Cruz Smith

This Is Between Us
(*)
Kevin Sampsell

Through the Evil Days
(*)
Julia Spencer-Fleming

The Tulip Eaters
(*)
Antoinette van Heugten

The Valley of Amazement
(*)
Amy Tan

Where the Moon Isn't // The Shock of the Fall
(*)
Nathan Filer

Brown Dog: Novellas
(*)
Jim Harrison

Death Comes to the Village
(*)
Catherine Lloyd

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
(*)
Sun-Mi Hwang

The Housemaid's Daughter
(*)
Barbara Mutch

The Colour of Milk
(*)
Nell Leyshon

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