2018 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

#1 Pick

The Immortalists
(*)
Chloe Benjamin

Tangerine
(*)
Christine Mangan

A Lucky Man: Stories
(*)
Jamel Brinkley

There There
(*)
Tommy Orange

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
(*)
Ottessa Moshfegh

The Incendiaries
(*)
R.O. Kwon

She Would Be King
(*)
Wayetu Moore

Scribe
(*)
Alyson Hagy

My Sister, the Serial Killer
(*)
Oyinkan Braithwaite

Virgil Wander
(*)
Leif Enger

Starred Review

The Labyrinth of the Spirits
(*)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
(*)
Mario Giordano

Welcome to Lagos
(*)
Chibundu Onuzo

Man with a seagull on his head
(*)
Harriet Paige

How to Stop Time
(*)
Matt Haig

The Tin Man
(*)
Sarah Winman

The Afterlives
(*)
Thomas Pierce

Beneath the Sugar Sky
(*)
Seanan McGuire

The Chalk Man
(*)
C.J. Tudor

Eternal Life
(*)
Dara Horn

Everything Here Is Beautiful
(*)
Mira T. Lee

Fire Sermon
(*)
Jamie Quatro

Green
(*)
Sam Graham-Felsen

Grist Mill Road
(*)
Christopher J. Yates

Heart Spring Mountain
(*)
Robin MacArthur

The Immortalists
(*)
Chloe Benjamin

The Job of the Wasp
(*)
Colin Winnette

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
(*)
Denis Johnson

The Mitford Murders
(*)
Jessica Fellowes

The Mountain
(*)
Luca D'Andrea

Need to Know
(*)
Karen Cleveland

Neon in Daylight
(*)
Hermione Hoby

The Perfect Nanny
(*)
Leila Slimani

Red Clocks
(*)
Leni Zumas

The Tattooist of Auschwitz
(*)
Heather Morris

This Could Hurt
(*)
Jillian Medoff

Two Girls Down
(*)
Louisa Luna

The Unmade World
(*)
Steve Yarbrough

The Widows of Malabar Hill
(*)
Sujata Massey

The Wife Between Us
(*)
Greer Hendricks; Sarah Pekkanen

The Wolves of Winter
(*)
Tyrell Johnson

The Woman in the Window
(*)
A.J. Finn

An American Marriage
(*)
Tayari Jones

Don't Skip Out on Me
(*)
Willy Vlautin

Force of Nature
(*)
Jane Harper

Freshwater
(*)
Akwaeke Emezi

The Great Alone
(*)
Kristin Hannah

In Every Moment We Are Still Alive
(*)
Tom Malmquist

A Long Way from Home
(*)
Peter Carey

Only Killers and Thieves
(*)
Paul Howarth

Promise
(*)
Minrose Gwin

Rosie Colored Glasses
(*)
Brianna Wolfson

The Sea Beast Takes a Lover: Stories
(*)
Michael Andreasen

Some Hell
(*)
Patrick Nathan

Sunburn
(*)
Laura Lippman

White Houses
(*)
Amy Bloom

Anatomy of a Miracle
(*)
Jonathan Miles

The Book of Numbers
(*)
Nova Jacobs

Census
(*)
Jesse Ball

The Hush
(*)
John Hart

The Italian Party
(*)
Christina Lynch

The Italian Teacher
(*)
Tom Rachman

Sometimes I Lie
(*)
Alice Feeney

Speak No Evil
(*)
Uzodinma Iweala

Stray City
(*)
Chelsey Johnson

Tomb Song
(*)
Julian Herbert

After Anna
(*)
Lisa Scottoline

Blue Self-Portrait
(*)
To Be Determined

Circe
(*)
Madeline Miller

Country Dark
(*)
Chris Offutt

Every Note Played
(*)
Lisa Genova

The Female Persuasion
(*)
Meg Wolitzer

I Was Anastasia
(*)
Ariel Lawhon

Lawn Boy
(*)
Jonathan Evison

Noir
(*)
Christopher Moore

The Only Story
(*)
Julian Barnes

The Oracle Year
(*)
Charles Soule

The Overstory
(*)
Richard Powers

Paris by the Book
(*)
Liam Callanan

Radiant Shimmering Light
(*)
Sarah Selecky

Tangerine
(*)
Christine Mangan

Varina
(*)
Charles Frazier

Waiting for Tomorrow
(*)
Nathacha Appanah

You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories
(*)
Curtis Sittenfeld

The Ensemble
(*)
Aja Gabel

The High Season
(*)
Judy Blundell

How to Walk Away
(*)
Katherine Center

Love and Ruin
(*)
Paula McLain

A Lucky Man: Stories
(*)
Jamel Brinkley

The Mars Room
(*)
Rachel Kushner

Mem
(*)
Bethany C. Morrow

Motherhood
(*)
Sheila Heti

Mr. Flood's Last Resort
(*)
Jess Kidd

My Ex-Life
(*)
Stephen McCauley

The Optimistic Decade
(*)
Heather Abel

The Perfect Mother
(*)
Aimee Molloy

Shelter in Place
(*)
Nora Roberts

Warlight
(*)
Michael Ondaatje

Wicked River
(*)
Jenny Milchman

Bearskin
(*)
James A. McLaughlin

The Book of Essie
(*)
Meghan MacLean Weir

Bring Me Back
(*)
B.A. Paris

Convenience Store Woman
(*)
Sayaka Murata

The Death of Mrs. Westaway
(*)
Ruth Ware

Florida
(*)
Lauren Groff

The Great Believers
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

Invitation to a Bonfire
(*)
Adrienne Celt

The Lost Family
(*)
Jenna Blum

The Lost Vintage
(*)
Ann Mah

Lying in Wait
(*)
Liz Nugent

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
(*)
Dorthe Nors

Number One Chinese Restaurant
(*)
Lillian Li

A Place for Us
(*)
Fatima Farheen Mirza

Providence
(*)
Caroline Kepnes

The Secrets Between Us
(*)
Thrity Umrigar

Southernmost
(*)
Silas House

There There
(*)
Tommy Orange

Visible Empire
(*)
Hannah Pittard

Who Is Vera Kelly?
(*)
Rosalie Knecht

Witchmark
(*)
C.L. Polk

The Word Is Murder
(*)
Anthony Horowitz

America for Beginners
(*)
Leah Franqui

Baby Teeth
(*)
Zoje Stage

The Cabin at the End of the World
(*)
Paul Tremblay

Dear Mrs. Bird
(*)
A.J. Pearce

The Family Tabor
(*)
Cherise Wolas

If You See Me, Don't Say Hi
(*)
Neel Patel

Kill the Farm Boy
(*)
Kevin Hearne; Delilah S. Dawson

The Last Cruise
(*)
Kate Christensen

The Lido
(*)
Libby Page

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
(*)
Ottessa Moshfegh

A Noise Downstairs
(*)
Linwood Barclay

An Ocean of Minutes
(*)
Thea Lim

Poso Wells
(*)
To Be Determined

The Ruin
(*)
Dervla McTiernan

Spinning Silver
(*)
Naomi Novik

The Summer Wives
(*)
Beatriz Williams

Cherry
(*)
Nico Walker

Clock Dance
(*)
Anne Tyler

Fruit of the Drunken Tree
(*)
Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Goodbye, Paris
(*)
Anstey Harris

His Favorites
(*)
Kate Walbert

The Incendiaries
(*)
R.O. Kwon

Meet Me at the Museum
(*)
Anne Youngson

The Middleman
(*)
Olen Steinhauer

Ohio
(*)
Stephen Markley

The Reservoir Tapes
(*)
Jon McGregor

Severance
(*)
Ling Ma

The Third Hotel
(*)
Laura Van Den Berg

Tiffany Blues
(*)
M.J. Rose

Vox
(*)
Christina Dalcher

Whiskey When We're Dry
(*)
John Larison

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
(*)
Stuart Turton

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
(*)
Hank Green

French Exit
(*)
Patrick deWitt

A Key to Treehouse Living
(*)
Elliot Reed

Lake Success
(*)
Gary Shteyngart

Leave No Trace
(*)
Mindy Mejia

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
(*)
Imogen Hermes Gowar

Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit
(*)
Amy Stewart

The Proposal
(*)
Jasmine Guillory

She Would Be King
(*)
Wayetu Moore

The Silence of the Girls
(*)
Pat Barker

Transcription
(*)
Kate Atkinson

Waiting for Eden
(*)
Elliot Ackerman

Washington Black
(*)
Esi Edugyan

Where the Crawdads Sing
(*)
Delia Owens

The Winter Soldier
(*)
Daniel Mason

Alice Isn't Dead
(*)
Joseph Fink; Jeffrey Cranor

Bitter Orange
(*)
Claire Fuller

The Clockmaker's Daughter
(*)
Kate Morton

The Collector's Apprentice
(*)
B.A. Shapiro

The Dinner List
(*)
Rebecca Serle

Friday Black: Stories
(*)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Little
(*)
Edward Carey

Marilla of Green Gables
(*)
Sarah McCoy

Melmoth
(*)
Sarah Perry

November Road
(*)
Lou Berney

The Projectionist
(*)
Grove Press

The Reckoning
(*)
John Grisham

Scribe
(*)
Alyson Hagy

A Spark of Light
(*)
Jodi Picoult

The Travelling Cat Chronicles
(*)
Hiro Arikawa

Unsheltered
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

A Well-Behaved Woman
(*)
Therese Anne Fowler

The Witch Elm
(*)
Tana French

The Adults
(*)
Caroline Hulse

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
(*)
Helene Tursten

Family Trust
(*)
Kathy Wang

The Feral Detective
(*)
Jonathan Lethem

A Ladder to the Sky
(*)
John Boyne

The Lonesome Bodybuilder
(*)
Yukiko Motoya

My Sister, the Serial Killer
(*)
Oyinkan Braithwaite

Night of Miracles
(*)
Elizabeth Berg

Those Who Knew
(*)
Idra Novey

Western Wind
(*)
Grove Press

Come with Me
(*)
Helen Schulman

The Dakota Winters
(*)
Tom Barbash

Hearts of the Missing
(*)
Carol Potenza

Kingdom of the Blind
(*)
Louise Penny

The Museum of Modern Love
(*)
Heather Rose

Not of This Fold
(*)
Mette Ivie Harrison

Of Blood and Bone
(*)
Nora Roberts

Once Upon a River
(*)
Diane Setterfield

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