2014 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

Starred Review

The Heart Has Its Reasons
(*)
Maria Duenas

The Ascendant
(*)
Drew Chapman

The Bird Skinner
(*)
Alice Greenway

The Crane Wife
(*)
Patrick Ness

The Days of Anna Madrigal
(*)
Armistead Maupin

I Am Pilgrim
(*)
Terry Hayes

In the Blood
(*)
Lisa Unger

The Invention of Wings
(*)
Sue Monk Kidd

The Kept
(*)
James Scott

The Last Days of California
(*)
Mary Miller

Lost Lake
(*)
Sarah Addison Allen

Mercy Snow
(*)
Tiffany Baker

North of Boston
(*)
Elisabeth Elo

Orfeo
(*)
Richard Powers

The Purity of Vengeance
(*)
Jussi Adler-Olsen

Radiance of Tomorrow
(*)
Ishmael Beah

Rosarito Beach
(*)
M.A. Lawson

The Secret of Magic
(*)
Deborah Johnson

Shovel Ready
(*)
Adam Sternbergh

A Star for Mrs. Blake
(*)
April Smith

Under the Wide and Starry Sky
(*)
Nancy Horan

The Wind Is Not a River
(*)
Brian Payton

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
(*)
Katherine Pancol

After I'm Gone
(*)
Laura Lippman

Archetype
(*)
M.D. Waters

Bark: Stories
(*)
Lorrie Moore

The Deliverance of Evil
(*)
Roberto Costantini

Dept. of Speculation
(*)
Jenny Offill

The Free
(*)
Willy Vlautin

The Girl with a Clock for a Heart
(*)
Peter Swanson

The Good Luck of Right Now
(*)
Matthew Quick

The Martian
(*)
Andy Weir

The Museum of Extraordinary Things
(*)
Alice Hoffman

Runner
(*)
Patrick Lee

The Secret of Raven Point
(*)
Jennifer Vanderbes

The Spinning Heart
(*)
Donal Ryan

The Sun and Other Stars
(*)
Brigid Pasulka

This Dark Road to Mercy
(*)
Wiley Cash

The UnAmericans: Stories
(*)
Molly Antopol

While Beauty Slept
(*)
Elizabeth Blackwell

The Winter People
(*)
Jennifer McMahon

The Wives of Los Alamos
(*)
Tarashea Nesbit

Above
(*)
Isla Morley

The Accident
(*)
Chris Pavone

The Black-Eyed Blonde // Marlowe
(*)
Benjamin Black

The Book of Duels: Flash Fiction
(*)
Michael Garriga

Boy, Snow, Bird
(*)
Helen Oyeyemi

The Cairo Affair
(*)
Olen Steinhauer

A Circle of Wives
(*)
Alice LaPlante

The Enchanted
(*)
Rene Denfeld

Gemini
(*)
Carol Cassella

Inappropriate Behavior: Stories
(*)
Murray Farish

Mind of Winter
(*)
Laura Kasischke

Murder at Cape Three Points
(*)
Kwei Quartey

My Wish List
(*)
Gregoire Delacourt

Redeployment
(*)
Phil Klay

Roosevelt's Beast
(*)
Louis Bayard

Shotgun Lovesongs
(*)
Nickolas Butler

The Weight of Blood
(*)
Laura McHugh

The Weirdness
(*)
Jeremy Bushnell

All the Birds, Singing
(*)
Evie Wyld

And the Dark Sacred Night
(*)
Julia Glass

Astonish Me
(*)
Maggie Shipstead

The Cold Song
(*)
Linn Ullmann

Collector of Dying Breaths
(*)
M.J. Rose

Frog Music
(*)
Emma Donoghue

In Paradise
(*)
Peter Matthiessen

The Intern's Handbook
(*)
Shane Kuhn

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
(*)
Francine Prose

Mimi Malloy at Last
(*)
Julia MacDonnell

The Other Story
(*)
Tatiana de Rosnay

The Plover
(*)
Brian Doyle

Ruin Falls
(*)
Jenny Milchman

The Serpent of Venice
(*)
Christopher Moore

The Steady Running of the Hour
(*)
Justin Go

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
(*)
Gabrielle Zevin

All the Light We Cannot See
(*)
Anthony Doerr

The Bees
(*)
Laline Paull

Between Wrecks
(*)
George Singleton

Bird Box
(*)
Josh Malerman

The Garden of Burning Sand
(*)
Corban Addison

Jack of Spies
(*)
David Downing

Natchez Burning
(*)
Greg Iles

Next Life Might Be Kinder
(*)
Howard Norman

The Orenda
(*)
Joseph Boyden

Point of Direction
(*)
Rachel Weaver

Ruby
(*)
Cynthia Bond

The Transcriptionist
(*)
Amy Rowland

Troika
(*)
Adam Pelzman

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
(*)
Joel Dicker

Wonderland
(*)
Stacey D'Erasmo

Em and the Big Hoom
(*)
Jerry Pinto

Euphoria
(*)
Lily King

Flying Shoes
(*)
Lisa Howorth

Fourth of July Creek
(*)
Smith Henderson

The Girl with All the Gifts
(*)
M.R. Carey

The Glass Kitchen
(*)
Linda Francis Lee

Goodnight June
(*)
Sarah Jio

I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You
(*)
Courtney Maum

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
(*)
Susan Jane Gilman

The Quick
(*)
Lauren Owen

The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
(*)
Tom Rachman

Summerhouse with Swimming Pool
(*)
Herman Koch

That Night
(*)
Chevy Stevens

The Untold
(*)
Courtney Collins

The Vacationers
(*)
Emma Straub

We Are Called to Rise
(*)
Laura McBride

The Appetites of Girls
(*)
Pamela Moses

The Book of Life
(*)
Deborah Harkness

The Care and Management of Lies
(*)
Jacqueline Winspear

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands
(*)
Chris Bohjalian

Dollbaby
(*)
Laura Lane McNeal

Dry Bones in the Valley
(*)
Tom Bouman

The Girls from Corona del Mar
(*)
Rufi Thorpe

Herbie's Game
(*)
Timothy Hallinan

How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky
(*)
Lydia Netzer

Landline
(*)
Rainbow Rowell

Last Night at the Blue Angel
(*)
Rebecca Rotert

Life Drawing
(*)
Robin Black

A Man Called Ove
(*)
Fredrik Backman

The One Plus One
(*)
JoJo Moyes

The Queen of the Tearling
(*)
Erika Johansen

The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet
(*)
Bernie Su; Kate Rorick

The String Diaries
(*)
Stephen Lloyd Jones

World of Trouble
(*)
Ben H. Winters

A Colder War
(*)
Charles Cumming

Dear Committee Members
(*)
Julie Schumacher

Further Out Than You Thought
(*)
Michaela Carter

The Good Girl
(*)
Mary Kubica

The Home Place
(*)
Carrie La Seur

The Invention of Exile
(*)
Vanessa Manko

Lucky Us
(*)
Amy Bloom

The Magician's Land
(*)
Lev Grossman

The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances
(*)
Ellen Cooney

One Kick // Gone
(*)
Chelsea Cain

Painted Horses
(*)
Malcolm Brooks

Small Blessings
(*)
Martha Woodroof

This Is the Water
(*)
Yannick Murphy

Tigerman
(*)
Nick Harkaway

We Are Not Ourselves
(*)
Matthew Thomas

Acceptance
(*)
Jeff VanderMeer

Accidents of Marriage
(*)
Randy Susan Meyers

The Bone Clocks
(*)
David Mitchell

Diary of the Fall
(*)
David Laub

Fives and Twenty-Fives
(*)
Michael Pitre

Florence Gordon
(*)
Brian Morton

Gutenberg's Apprentice
(*)
Alix Christie

The High Divide
(*)
Lin Enger

Hold the Dark
(*)
William Giraldi

How to Build a Girl
(*)
Caitlin Moran

Island of a Thousand Mirrors
(*)
Nayomi Munaweera

The Long Way Home
(*)
Louise Penny

Love Me Back
(*)
Merritt Tierce

The Miniaturist
(*)
Jessie Burton

Neverhome
(*)
Laird Hunt

The Paying Guests
(*)
Sarah Waters

The Secret Place
(*)
Tana French

Station Eleven
(*)
Emily St. John Mandel

The Story of Land and Sea
(*)
Katy Simpson Smith

The Thing about December
(*)
Donal Ryan

Wolf in White Van
(*)
John Darnielle

Alphabet
(*)
Kathy Page

Crooked River
(*)
Valerie Geary

First Impressions: Or, a Cautionary Tale of Pride and Prejudice
(*)
Charlie Lovett

The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
(*)
Stephen Collins

Leaving Time
(*)
Jodi Picoult

Lila
(*)
Marilynne Robinson

Man V. Nature: Stories
(*)
Diane Cook

Night Blindness
(*)
Susan Strecker

Nora Webster
(*)
Colm Toibin

The Remedy for Love
(*)
Bill Roorbach

Some Luck
(*)
Jane Smiley

Sometimes the Wolf
(*)
Urban Waite

A Sudden Light
(*)
Garth Stein

Wait for Signs
(*)
Craig Johnson

All Days Are Night
(*)
Peter Stamm

All My Puny Sorrows
(*)
Miriam Toews

The Book of Strange New Things
(*)
Michel Faber

Citizens Creek
(*)
Lalita Tademy

Falling from Horses
(*)
Molly Gloss

Far as the Eye Can See
(*)
Robert Bausch

The Final Silence
(*)
Stuart Neville

The Forgers
(*)
Bradford Morrow

The Happiest People in the World
(*)
Brock Clarke

The Heart Does Not Grow Back
(*)
Fred Venturini

The Laughing Monsters
(*)
Denis Johnson

The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man
(*)
W. Bruce Cameron

The Paris Winter
(*)
Imogen Robertson

Us
(*)
David Nicholls

The Boston Girl
(*)
Anita Diamant

Enter Pale Death
(*)
Barbara Cleverly

Moriarty
(*)
Anthony Horowitz

If Only You People Could Follow Directions
(*)
Jessica Hendry Nelson

Irene
(*)
Pierre Lemaitre

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