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2020 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

#1 Pick

American Dirt
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Jeanine Cummins

Such a Fun Age
(*)
Kiley Reid

The Glass Hotel
(*)
Emily St. John Mandel

My Dark Vanessa
(*)
Kate Elizabeth Russell

A Burning
(*)
Megha Majumdar

Death in Her Hands
(*)
Ottessa Moshfegh

Mexican Gothic
(*)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Migrations
(*)
Charlotte McConaghy

Anxious People
(*)
Fredrik Backman

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
(*)
V.E. Schwab

Memorial
(*)
Bryan Washington

Starred Review

A Wealth of Pigeons: A Cartoon Collection
(*)
Steve Martin
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American Dirt
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Jeanine Cummins

Big Lies in a Small Town
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Diane Chamberlain

Cleanness
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Garth Greenwell

Come Tumbling Down
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Seanan McGuire

Creatures
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Crissy Van Meter

Dear Edward
(*)
Ann Napolitano

Deep State
(*)
Chris Hauty

How Quickly She Disappears
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Raymond Fleischmann

Imaginary Museums
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Nicolette Polek

Kingdomtide
(*)
Rye Curtis

Lady Clementine
(*)
Marie Benedict

Long Bright River
(*)
Liz Moore

A Long Petal of the Sea
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Isabel Allende

Night Theater
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Vikram Paralkar

The Seep
(*)
Chana Porter

The Tenant
(*)
Katrine Engberg

The Vanished Birds
(*)
Simon Jimenez

You Were There Too
(*)
Colleen Oakley

Apeirogon
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Colum McCann

The Authenticity Project
(*)
Clare Pooley

Big Girl, Small Town
(*)
Michelle Gallen

Cartier's Hope
(*)
M.J. Rose

Everywhere You Don't Belong
(*)
Gabriel Bump

The Girl with the Louding Voice
(*)
Abi Dare

Greenwood
(*)
Michael Christie

Highfire
(*)
Eoin Colfer

The Mercies
(*)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Oona Out of Order
(*)
Margarita Montimore

The Resisters
(*)
Gish Jen

Run Me to Earth
(*)
Paul Yoon

Saint X
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Alexis Schaitkin

Things in Jars
(*)
Jess Kidd

The Unspoken Name
(*)
A.K. Larkwood

Verge
(*)
Lidia Yuknavitch

Weather
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Jenny Offill

When We Were Vikings
(*)
Andrew David MacDonald

The Animals at Lockwood Manor
(*)
Jane Healey

Beheld
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Tarashea Nesbit

The City We Became
(*)
N.K. Jemisin

Darling Rose Gold
(*)
Stephanie Wrobel

Deacon King Kong
(*)
James McBride

Docile
(*)
K.M. Szpara

Eight Perfect Murders
(*)
Peter Swanson

Enter the Aardvark
(*)
Jessica Anthony

The Glass Hotel
(*)
Emily St. John Mandel

A Good Neighborhood
(*)
Therese Anne Fowler

The Honey-Don't List
(*)
Christina Lauren

The House in the Cerulean Sea
(*)
T.J. Klune

In Five Years
(*)
Rebecca Serle

The Lost Diary of Venice
(*)
Margaux DeRoux

My Dark Vanessa
(*)
Kate Elizabeth Russell

Separation Anxiety
(*)
Laura Zigman

Sharks in the Time of Saviors
(*)
Kawai Strong Washburn

This Town Sleeps
(*)
Dennis E. Staples

Undercover Bromance
(*)
Lyssa Kay Adams

We Ride Upon Sticks
(*)
Quan Barry

Writers & Lovers
(*)
Lily King

Afterlife
(*)
Julia Alvarez

The Book of Longings
(*)
Sue Monk Kidd

Braised Pork
(*)
An Yu

Chosen Ones
(*)
Veronica Roth

Godshot
(*)
Chelsea Bieker

How Much of These Hills Is Gold
(*)
C. Pam Zhang

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
(*)
Lauren Redniss

Pretty Things
(*)
Janelle Brown

Reproduction
(*)
Ian Williams

The Roxy Letters
(*)
Mary Pauline Lowry

Simon the Fiddler
(*)
Paulette Jiles

Sin Eater
(*)
Megan Campisi

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
(*)
Grady Hendrix

Three Hours in Paris
(*)
Cara Black

The Unseen
(*)
Roy Jacobsen

Valentine
(*)
Elizabeth Wetmore

All Adults Here
(*)
Emma Straub

Beach Read
(*)
Emily Henry

The Book of V.
(*)
Anna Solomon

Catherine House
(*)
Elisabeth Thomas

A Children's Bible
(*)
Lydia Millet

I'd Give Anything
(*)
Marisa de los Santos

The Knockout Queen
(*)
Rufi Thorpe

Network Effect
(*)
Martha Wells

The Paris Hours
(*)
Alex George

The Prettiest Star
(*)
Carter Sickels

Red Dress in Black and White
(*)
Elliot Ackerman

Sea Wife
(*)
Amity Gaige

Shakespeare for Squirrels
(*)
Christopher Moore

Take Me Apart
(*)
Sara Sligar

A Taste of Sage
(*)
Yaffa S. Santos

Broken People
(*)
Sam Lansky

A Burning
(*)
Megha Majumdar

Death in Her Hands
(*)
Ottessa Moshfegh

Devolution
(*)
Max Brooks

The Falling Woman
(*)
Richard Farrell

The Girl from Widow Hills
(*)
Megan Miranda

The Jane Austen Society
(*)
Natalie Jenner

The Last Flight
(*)
Julie Clark

Pizza Girl
(*)
Jean Kyoung Frazier

The Second Home
(*)
Christina Clancy

Something to Talk About
(*)
Meryl Wilsner

Take a Hint, Dani Brown
(*)
Talia Hibbert

The Vanishing Half
(*)
Brit Bennett

You Exist Too Much
(*)
Zaina Arafat

Crooked Hallelujah
(*)
Kelli Jo Ford

The Disaster Tourist
(*)
Yun Ko-Eun

Florence Adler Swims Forever
(*)
Rachel Beanland

Fresh Water for Flowers
(*)
Valerie Perrin

Friends and Strangers
(*)
J. Courtney Sullivan

Hamnet
(*)
Maggie O'Farrell

The Lost and Found Bookshop
(*)
Susan Wiggs

Mexican Gothic
(*)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Nine Shiny Objects
(*)
Brian Castleberry

The Only Good Indians
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

The Safe Place
(*)
Anna Downes

The Shadows
(*)
Alex North

Survivor Song
(*)
Paul Tremblay

Utopia Avenue
(*)
David Mitchell

The Vanishing Sky
(*)
L. Annette Binder

What You Wish For
(*)
Katherine Center

Betty
(*)
Tiffany McDaniel

The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals
(*)
Becky Mandelbaum

The Butterfly Lampshade
(*)
Aimee Bender

Crossings
(*)
Alex Landragin

The Death of Vivek Oji
(*)
Akwaeke Emezi

The Eighth Detective
(*)
Alex Pavesi

Empire of Wild
(*)
Cherie Dimaline

Flyaway
(*)
Kathleen Jennings

Grown Ups
(*)
Emma Jane Unsworth

Harrow the Ninth
(*)
Tamsyn Muir

Hieroglyphics
(*)
Jill McCorkle

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
(*)
Laura Van Den Berg

Impersonation
(*)
Heidi Pitlor

Luster
(*)
Raven Leilani

Migrations
(*)
Charlotte McConaghy

Northernmost
(*)
Peter Geye

True Story
(*)
Kate Reed Petty

Universe of Two
(*)
Stephen P. Kiernan

Winter Counts
(*)
David Heska; Wanbli Weiden

The Wright Sister
(*)
Patty Dann

You Had Me at Hola
(*)
Alexis Daria

Anxious People
(*)
Fredrik Backman

The Bell in the Lake
(*)
Lars Mytting

The Big Door Prize
(*)
M.O. Walsh

The Exiles
(*)
Christina Baker Kline

Hench
(*)
Natalie Zina Walschots

Here We Are
(*)
Graham Swift

Homeland Elegies
(*)
Ayad Akhtar

The Lying Life of Adults
(*)
Elena Ferrante

Monogamy
(*)
Sue Miller

One by One
(*)
Ruth Ware

Piranesi
(*)
Susanna Clarke

A Rogue of One's Own
(*)
Evie Dunmore

Transcendent Kingdom
(*)
Yaa Gyasi

When No One Is Watching
(*)
Alyssa Cole

Black Sun
(*)
Rebecca Roanhorse

Confessions on the 7:45
(*)
Lisa Unger

Cuyahoga
(*)
Pete Beatty

A Deadly Education
(*)
Naomi Novik

Dear Child
(*)
Romy Hausmann

The End of the Day
(*)
Bill Clegg

Fortune Favors the Dead
(*)
Stephen Spotswood

Goodnight Beautiful
(*)
Aimee Molloy

Invisible Girl
(*)
Lisa Jewell

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
(*)
V.E. Schwab

Leave the World Behind
(*)
Rumaan Alam

Magic Lessons
(*)
Alice Hoffman

The Midnight Bargain
(*)
C.L. Polk

The Once and Future Witches
(*)
Alix E. Harrow

Plain Bad Heroines
(*)
Emily M. Danforth

Ring Shout
(*)
P. Djeli Clark

The Talented Miss Farwell
(*)
Emily Gray Tedrowe

Where the Wild Ladies Are
(*)
Aoko Matsuda

Before the Coffee Gets Cold
(*)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Burning God
(*)
R.F. Kuang

The Butchers' Blessing
(*)
Ruth Gilligan

The Cold Millions
(*)
Jess Walter

Crazy Stupid Bromance
(*)
Lyssa Kay Adams

Eartheater
(*)
Dolores Reyes

Little Wishes
(*)
Michelle Adams

Moonflower Murders
(*)
Anthony Horowitz

Nights When Nothing Happened
(*)
Simon Han

The Office of Historical Corrections
(*)
Danielle Evans

The Orchard
(*)
David Hopen

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
(*)
Lori Nelson Spielman

Tsarina
(*)
Ellen Alpsten

White Ivy
(*)
Susie Yang

Written in the Stars
(*)
Alexandria Bellefleur

The Arctic Fury
(*)
Greer Macallister

A Certain Hunger
(*)
Chelsea G. Summers

The Chicken Sisters
(*)
K.J. Dell'Antonia

How to Catch a Queen
(*)
Alyssa Cole

How to Fail at Flirting
(*)
Denise Williams

Shed No Tears
(*)
Caz Frear

The Thirty Names of Night
(*)
Zeyn Joukhadar

This Book Is a Time Machine: Stories of a Barely Functional Adult
(*)
Meichi Ng

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