2017 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

Starred Review

Mrs. Caliban
(*)
Rachel Ingalls

The Redemption of Galen Pike
(*)
Carys Davies

Eggshells
(*)
Caitriona Lally

The Bear and the Nightingale
(*)
Katherine Arden

Burning Bright
(*)
Nick Petrie

The Dry
(*)
Jane Harper

Everything You Want Me to Be
(*)
Mindy Mejia

Fever Dream
(*)
Samanta Schweblin

The Fifth Petal
(*)
Brunonia Barry

Freebird
(*)
Jon Raymond

The Girl Before
(*)
J.P. Delaney

Her Every Fear
(*)
Peter Swanson

Homesick for Another World
(*)
Ottessa Moshfegh

Indelible
(*)
Adelia Saunders

Leopard at the Door
(*)
Jennifer McVeigh

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
(*)
Kathleen Rooney

Little Deaths
(*)
Emma Flint

Lucky Boy
(*)
Shanthi Sekaran

The Midnight Cool
(*)
Lydia Peelle

The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
(*)
Lindsey Lee Johnson

The Old Man
(*)
Thomas Perry

Perfect Little World
(*)
Kevin Wilson

The River at Night
(*)
Erica Ferencik

The Second Mrs. Hockaday
(*)
Susan Rivers

The Sleepwalker
(*)
Chris Bohjalian

Strange Gods
(*)
Roxane Gay

Two Days Gone
(*)
Randall Silvis

4 3 2 1
(*)
Paul Auster

Behind Her Eyes
(*)
Sarah Pinborough

By Myself, with You
(*)
Sally Hepworth

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
(*)
Jennifer Ryan

Desperation Road
(*)
Michael Farris Smith

I'd Love You to Want Me
(*)
Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Impossible Fortress
(*)
Jason Rekulak

Lincoln in the Bardo
(*)
George Saunders

The Lonely Hearts Hotel
(*)
Heather O'Neill

Pachinko
(*)
Min Jin Lee

A Piece of the World
(*)
Christina Baker Kline

A Separation
(*)
Katie Kitamura

Setting Free the Kites
(*)
Alex George

Swimming Lessons
(*)
Claire Fuller

All Grown Up
(*)
Jami Attenberg

Celine
(*)
Peter Heller

Close Enough to Touch
(*)
Colleen Oakley

Edgar and Lucy
(*)
Victor Lodato

The Fall of Lisa Bellow
(*)
Susan Perabo

Girl in Disguise
(*)
Greer Macallister

The Hearts of Men
(*)
Nickolas Butler

The Idiot
(*)
Elif Batuman

Ill Will
(*)
Dan Chaon

Mississippi Blood
(*)
Greg Iles

Never Let You Go
(*)
Chevy Stevens

One of the Boys
(*)
Daniel Magariel

Our Short History
(*)
Lauren Grodstein

Rabbit Cake
(*)
Annie Hartnett

The River of Kings
(*)
Taylor Brown

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
(*)
Lisa See

The Wanderers
(*)
Meg Howrey

White Tears
(*)
Hari Kunzru

American War
(*)
Omar El Akkad

Anything Is Possible
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

Beartown
(*)
Fredrik Backman

The Day I Died
(*)
Lori Rader-Day

A Little More Human
(*)
Fiona Maazel

Marlena
(*)
Julie Buntin

Miss You
(*)
Kate Eberlen

The Shadow Land
(*)
Elizabeth Kostova

Spoils
(*)
Brian Van Reet

The Standard Grand
(*)
Jay Baron Nicorvo

The Stars Are Fire
(*)
Anita Shreve

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
(*)
Hannah Tinti

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories
(*)
Lesley Nneka Arimah

'Round Midnight
(*)
Laura McBride

Chemistry
(*)
Weike Wang

Dragon Teeth
(*)
Michael Crichton

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
(*)
Gail Honeyman

Fen
(*)
Daisy Johnson

The Garden of Small Beginnings
(*)
Abbi Waxman

The Leavers
(*)
Lisa Ko

Miss Burma
(*)
Charmaine Craig

The Original Ginny Moon
(*)
Benjamin Ludwig

Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone
(*)
Phaedra Patrick

Saints for All Occasions
(*)
J. Courtney Sullivan

Salt Houses
(*)
Hala Alyan

Shadow Man
(*)
Alan Drew

Standard Deviation
(*)
Katherine Heiny

Sycamore
(*)
Bryn Chancellor

The Taste of Hope
(*)
Stephen P. Kiernan

Touch
(*)
Courtney Maum

Blackout
(*)
Marc Elsberg

Come Sundown
(*)
Nora Roberts

Do Not Become Alarmed
(*)
Maile Meloy

The Essex Serpent
(*)
Sarah Perry

Extraordinary Adventures
(*)
Daniel Wallace

The Force
(*)
Don Winslow

The Marsh King's Daughter
(*)
Karen Dionne

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
(*)
Matthew Sullivan

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Silent Corner
(*)
Dean Koontz

So Much Blue
(*)
Percival Everett

Stephen Florida
(*)
Gabe Habash

The Breakdown
(*)
B.A. Paris

Delhi Riche
(*)
Diksha Basu

Fierce Kingdom
(*)
Gin Phillips

Goodbye, Vitamin
(*)
Rachel Khong

The Graybar Hotel: Stories
(*)
Curtis Dawkins

Hum If You Don't Know the Words
(*)
Bianca Marais

The Library of Light and Shadow
(*)
M.J. Rose

Made for Love
(*)
Alissa Nutting

The Marriage Pact
(*)
Michelle Richmond

Meddling Kids
(*)
Edgar Cantero

The Reason You're Alive
(*)
Matthew Quick

South Pole Station
(*)
Ashley Benites; Ashley Shelby

Spoonbenders
(*)
Daryl Gregory

The Waking Land
(*)
Callie Bates

What We Lose
(*)
Zinzi Clemmons

When the English Fall
(*)
David Williams

The Address
(*)
Fiona Davis

Beast
(*)
Paul Kingsnorth

The Bedlam Stacks
(*)
Natasha Pulley

The Dark Net
(*)
Benjamin Percy

Emma in the Night
(*)
Wendy Walker

Girl in Snow
(*)
Danya Kukafka

The Half-Drowned King
(*)
Linnea Hartsuyker

The Heart's Invisible Furies
(*)
John Boyne

The History of Bees
(*)
Maja Lunde

Home Fire
(*)
Kamila Shamsie

If the Creek Don't Rise
(*)
Leah Weiss

Mrs. Fletcher
(*)
Tom Perrotta

The Readymade Thief
(*)
Augustus Rose

The Red-Haired Woman
(*)
Orhan Pamuk

See What I Have Done
(*)
Sarah Schmidt

The Talented Tenth
(*)
Ladee Hubbard

Unraveling Oliver
(*)
Liz Nugent

Young Jane Young
(*)
Gabrielle Zevin

Autonomous
(*)
Annalee Newitz

The Burning Girl
(*)
Claire Messud

Caroline: Little House, Revisited
(*)
Sarah Miller

The Child Finder
(*)
Rene Denfeld

The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs
(*)
Janet Peery

Fever
(*)
Deon Meyer

Forest Dark
(*)
Nicole Krauss

George and Lizzie
(*)
Nancy Pearl

The Hidden Light of Northern Fires
(*)
Daren Wang

Little Fires Everywhere
(*)
Celeste Ng

Love and Other Consolation Prizes
(*)
Jamie Ford

Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions
(*)
Amy Stewart

The Ninth Hour
(*)
Alice McDermott

The Other Alcott
(*)
Elise Hooper

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
(*)
Cherise Wolas

Sing, Unburied, Sing
(*)
Jesmyn Ward

Swallowing Mercury
(*)
Wioletta Greg

The Twelve-Mile Straight
(*)
Eleanor Henderson

The Vengeance of Mothers
(*)
Jim Fergus

The World of Tomorrow
(*)
Brendan Mathews

Five-Carat Soul
(*)
James McBride

Going into Town: A Love Letter to New York
(*)
Roz Chast

It Devours!
(*)
Joseph Fink; Jeffrey Cranor

The Last Ballad
(*)
Wiley Cash

Manhattan Beach
(*)
Jennifer Egan

The Prague Sonata
(*)
Bradford Morrow

Reservoir 13
(*)
Jon McGregor

The Rules of Magic
(*)
Alice Hoffman

Seven Days of Us
(*)
Francesca Hornak

Smile
(*)
Roddy Doyle

Strange Weather
(*)
Joe Hill

The Tiger's Daughter
(*)
K. Arsenault Rivera

Uncommon Type: Some Stories
(*)
Tom Hanks

The Usual Santas
(*)
Soho Crime

Artemis
(*)
Andy Weir

Bonfire
(*)
Krysten Ritter

The City of Brass
(*)
S.A. Chakraborty

The End We Start from
(*)
Grove Press

Future Home of the Living God
(*)
Louise Erdrich

Heather, the Totality
(*)
Matthew Weiner

Hiddensee
(*)
Gregory Maguire

Improvement
(*)
Joan Silber

In the Midst of Winter
(*)
Isabel Allende

Into the Drowning Deep
(*)
Mira Grant

Mr. Dickens and His Carol
(*)
Samantha Silva

The Story of Arthur Truluv
(*)
Elizabeth Berg

Strangers in Budapest
(*)
Jessica Keener

The Whispering Room
(*)
Dean Koontz

Wonder Valley
(*)
Ivy Pochoda

Elmet
(*)
Fiona Mozley

A Hundred Small Lessons
(*)
Ashley Hay

The Ice House
(*)
Laura Lee Smith

Signal Loss
(*)
Garry Disher

Three Daughters of Eve
(*)
Elif Shafak

Ultraluminous
(*)
Katherine Faw Morris

The Vanishing Season
(*)
Joanna Schaffhausen

Year One
(*)
Nora Roberts

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