2015 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

Starred Review

The Bone Tree
(*)
Greg Iles

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

Black Chalk
(*)
Christopher J. Yates

After the War Is Over
(*)
Jennifer Robson

Almost Famous Women: Stories
(*)
Megan Mayhew Bergman

Before I Go
(*)
Colleen Oakley

The Bishop's Wife
(*)
Mette Ivie Harrison

Black River
(*)
Sarah Hulse

Descent
(*)
Tim Johnston

Doing the Devil's Work
(*)
Bill Loehfelm

Etta and Otto and Russell and James
(*)
Emma Hooper

Everlasting Lane
(*)
Andrew Lovett

The First Bad Man
(*)
Miranda July

First Frost
(*)
Sarah Addison Allen

The Girl on the Train
(*)
Paula Hawkins

The Magician's Lie
(*)
Greer Macallister

Migratory Animals
(*)
Mary Helen Specht

Morte
(*)
Robert Repino

The Rosie Effect
(*)
Graeme Simsion

The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
(*)
Chris Scotton

The Soul of Discretion
(*)
Susan Hill

Sweetland
(*)
Michael Crummey

Unbecoming
(*)
Rebecca Scherm

The Unquiet Dead
(*)
Ausma Zehanat Khan

Vanessa and Her Sister
(*)
Priya Parmar

Viking Bay
(*)
M.A. Lawson

West of Sunset
(*)
Stewart O'Nan

The Wildalone
(*)
Krassi Zourkova

After Birth
(*)
Elisa Albert

The Country of Ice Cream Star
(*)
Sandra Newman

Get in Trouble
(*)
Kelly Link

I Am Radar
(*)
Reif Larsen

The Jaguar's Children
(*)
John Vaillant

My Sunshine Away
(*)
M.O. Walsh

The Nightingale
(*)
Kristin Hannah

Of Things Gone Astray
(*)
Janina Matthewson

The Room
(*)
Jonas Karlsson

Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories
(*)
Katherine Heiny

A Spool of Blue Thread
(*)
Anne Tyler

The Swimmer
(*)
Joakim Zander

We Are Pirates
(*)
Daniel Handler

Welcome to Braggsville
(*)
T. Geronimo Johnson

Wolf Winter
(*)
Cecilia Ekback

Aquarium
(*)
David Vann

Barefoot Dogs: Stories
(*)
Antonio Ruiz-Camacho

The Bookseller
(*)
Cynthia Swanson

The Buried Giant
(*)
Kazuo Ishiguro

Cat Out of Hell
(*)
Lynne Truss

Epitaph
(*)
Mary Doria Russell

The Fifth Gospel
(*)
Ian Caldwell

Hausfrau
(*)
Jill Alexander Essbaum

The Last Days of Video
(*)
Jeremy Hawkins

A Little Life
(*)
Hanya Yanagihara

Orhan's Inheritance
(*)
Aline Ohanesian

Our Endless Numbered Days
(*)
Claire Fuller

The Precious One
(*)
Marisa de los Santos

A Reunion of Ghosts
(*)
Judith Claire Mitchell

Soil
(*)
Jamie Kornegay

A Spy in Berlin
(*)
Joseph Kanon

Trike and Lola
(*)
Josh Cook

The Valley
(*)
John Renehan

Whisper Hollow
(*)
Chris Cander

The Witch of Painted Sorrows
(*)
M.J. Rose

World Gone by
(*)
Dennis Lehane

Young Skins: Stories
(*)
Colin Barrett

At the Water's Edge
(*)
Sara Gruen

The Children's Crusade
(*)
Ann Packer

The Daylight Marriage
(*)
Heidi Pitlor

A Desperate Fortune
(*)
Susanna Kearsley

Every Fifteen Minutes
(*)
Lisa Scottoline

The Given World
(*)
Marian Palaia

The Harder They Come
(*)
T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

Inside the O'Briens
(*)
Lisa Genova

The Red Notebook
(*)
Antoine Laurain

The Sympathizer
(*)
Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Turner House
(*)
Angela Flournoy

Where They Found Her
(*)
Kimberly McCreight

Whispering Shadows
(*)
Jan-Philipp Sendker

The Book of Aron
(*)
Jim Shepard

Church of Marvels
(*)
Leslie Parry

Girl at War
(*)
Sara Novic

The Green Road
(*)
Anne Enright

How to Start a Fire
(*)
Lisa Lutz

The Last Bookaneer
(*)
Matthew Pearl

Luckiest Girl Alive
(*)
Jessica Knoll

Medicine Walk
(*)
Richard Wagamese

The Memory Painter
(*)
Gwendolyn Womack

Mislaid
(*)
Nell Zink

Seveneves
(*)
Neal Stephenson

Uprooted
(*)
Naomi Novik

The Wonder Garden
(*)
Lauren Acampora

The Book of Speculation
(*)
Erika Swyler

Death and Mr. Pickwick
(*)
Stephen Jarvis

Dietland
(*)
Sarai Walker

Dinner with Buddha
(*)
Roland Merullo

Enchanted August
(*)
Brenda Bowen

A Head Full of Ghosts
(*)
Paul Tremblay

The Invasion of the Tearling
(*)
Erika Johansen

Language Arts
(*)
Stephanie Kallos

The Library at Mount Char
(*)
Scott Hawkins

The Little Paris Bookshop
(*)
Nina George

Love May Fail
(*)
Matthew Quick

The Meursault Investigation
(*)
Kamel Daoud

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
(*)
Fredrik Backman

Our Souls at Night
(*)
Kent Haruf

Palace of Treason
(*)
Jason Matthews

The Rocks
(*)
Peter Nichols

The Sunlit Night
(*)
Rebecca Dinerstein

Thank You, Goodnight
(*)
Andy Abramowitz

The Travels of Daniel Ascher
(*)
Deborah Bertherat-Levy

The Truth and Other Lies
(*)
Sascha Arango

The Truth According to Us
(*)
Annie Barrows

The Water Knife
(*)
Paolo Bacigalupi

Armada
(*)
Ernest Cline

As Night Falls
(*)
Jenny Milchman

Bell Weather
(*)
Dennis Mahoney

Bull Mountain
(*)
Brian Panowich

Circling the Sun
(*)
Paula McLain

Down Among the Dead Men
(*)
Peter Lovesey

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
(*)
Kelli Estes

The Hand That Feeds You
(*)
A.J. Rich

The Last Pilot
(*)
Benjamin Johncock

Let Me Explain You
(*)
Annie Liontas

Miss Emily
(*)
Nuala O'Connor

Speak
(*)
Louisa Hall

The Star Side of Bird Hill
(*)
Naomi Jackson

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
(*)
Natasha Pulley

All That Followed
(*)
Gabriel Urza

Barbara the Slut and Other People
(*)
Lauren Holmes

Best Boy
(*)
Eli Gottlieb

Dragonfish
(*)
Vu Tran

Eileen
(*)
Ottessa Moshfegh

Everybody Rise
(*)
Stephanie Clifford

Fishbowl
(*)
Bradley Somer

The Girl from the Garden
(*)
Parnaz Foroutan

The Girl Who Slept with God
(*)
Val Brelinski

In a Dark, Dark Wood
(*)
Ruth Ware

In the Dark Places // Abattoir Blues
(*)
Peter Robinson

Kitchens of the Great Midwest
(*)
J. Ryan Stradal

The Marriage of Opposites
(*)
Alice Hoffman

Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
(*)
Louise Walters

The Nature of the Beast
(*)
Louise Penny

Orphan Number Eight
(*)
Kim Van Alkemade

The Pope's Daughter
(*)
Dario Fo

The Race for Paris
(*)
Meg Waite Clayton

A Window Opens
(*)
Elisabeth Egan

Did You Ever Have a Family
(*)
Bill Clegg

Fates and Furies
(*)
Lauren Groff

The Gates of Evangeline
(*)
Hester Young

The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine
(*)
Alex Brunkhorst

Girl Waits with Gun
(*)
Amy Stewart

House of Thieves
(*)
Charles Belfoure

The Hummingbird
(*)
Stephen P. Kiernan

Jade Dragon Mountain
(*)
Elsa Hart

Pretty Girls
(*)
Karin Slaughter

Quicksand
(*)
Steve Toltz

Sweet Caress
(*)
William Boyd

This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
(*)
Jonathan Evison

Undermajordomo Minor
(*)
Patrick deWitt

And West Is West
(*)
Ron Childress

Bats of the Republic
(*)
Zachary Thomas Dodson

Carrying Albert Home
(*)
Homer Hickam

City on Fire
(*)
Garth Risk Hallberg

God's Kingdom
(*)
Howard Frank Mosher

Gold, Sea, Citrus
(*)
Claire Vaye Watkins

Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse
(*)
Faith Sullivan

The Lake House
(*)
Kate Morton

A Line of Blood
(*)
Ben McPherson

Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
(*)
Bonnie Jo Campbell

The Secret Chord
(*)
Geraldine Brooks

A Slanting of the Sun
(*)
Donal Ryan

The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories
(*)
Anthony Marra

Twain's End
(*)
Lynn Cullen

Welcome to Night Vale
(*)
Joseph Fink; Jeffrey Cranor

After Alice
(*)
Gregory Maguire

Along the Infinite Sea
(*)
Beatriz Williams

American Copper
(*)
Shann Ray

Avenue of Mysteries
(*)
John Irving

The Boys
(*)
Toni Sala

Corrupted
(*)
Lisa Scottoline

Fox Tooth Heart
(*)
John McManus

The Improbability of Love
(*)
Hannah Rothschild

The Japanese Lover
(*)
Isabel Allende

Made to Kill
(*)
Adam Christopher

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
(*)
Mitch Albom

The Mare
(*)
Mary Gaitskill

The Muralist
(*)
B.A. Shapiro

Numero Zero
(*)
Umberto Eco

Postmark Bayou Chene
(*)
Gwen Roland

Slade House
(*)
David Mitchell

Tightrope
(*)
Simon Mawer

A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
(*)
Michael Cunningham

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
(*)
Jackie Copleton

His Right Hand
(*)
Mette Ivie Harrison

Like Family
(*)
Paolo Giordano

Paradise City
(*)
Elizabeth Day

Time of Departure
(*)
Douglas Schofield

What She Knew
(*)
Gilly MacMillan

Year of the Goose
(*)
Carly J. Hallman

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