2021 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

#1 Pick

The Prophets
(*)
Robert Jones Jr.

The Paris Library
(*)
Janet Skeslien Charles

We Begin at the End
(*)
Chris Whitaker

Libertie
(*)
Kaitlyn Greenidge

Great Circle
(*)
Maggie Shipstead

Morningside Heights
(*)
Joshua Henkin

Falling
(*)
T.J. Newman

Once There Were Wolves
(*)
Charlotte McConaghy

Matrix
(*)
Lauren Groff

Cloud Cuckoo Land
(*)
Anthony Doerr

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
(*)
Nathaniel Ian Miller

Small Things Like These
(*)
Claire Keegan

Starred Review

The Tangleroot Palace
(*)
Marjorie M. Liu
in Never After

The House on Vesper Sands
(*)
Paraic O'Donnell

A Thousand Ships
(*)
Natalie Haynes

The Liar's Dictionary
(*)
Eley Williams

As You Were
(*)
Elaine Feeney

Across the Green Grass Fields
(*)
Seanan McGuire

Better Luck Next Time
(*)
Julia Claiborne Johnson

Black Buck
(*)
Mateo Askaripour

The Center of Everything
(*)
Jamie Harrison

The Children's Blizzard
(*)
Melanie Benjamin

A Crooked Tree
(*)
Una Mannion

The Fortunate Ones
(*)
Ed Tarkington

Hades, Argentina
(*)
Daniel Loedel

The Inland Sea
(*)
Madeleine Watts

My Heart Is a Chainsaw
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
(*)
Marie Benedict

Our Darkest Night
(*)
Jennifer Robson

Outlawed
(*)
Anna North

The Push
(*)
Ashley Audrain

Remote Control
(*)
Nnedi Okorafor

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
(*)
George Saunders

What Could Be Saved
(*)
Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

The Wife Upstairs
(*)
Rachel Hawkins

The Bad Muslim Discount
(*)
Syed M. Masood

Beneath the Keep
(*)
Erika Johansen

Born Into This: Stories
(*)
Adam Thompson

The Echo Wife
(*)
Sarah Gailey

Fake Accounts
(*)
Lauren Oyler

First Comes Like
(*)
Alisha Rai

The Four Winds
(*)
Kristin Hannah

The Girl from the Channel Islands
(*)
Jenny Lecoat

The Kindest Lie
(*)
Nancy Johnson

Land of Big Numbers: Stories
(*)
Te-Ping Chen

Milk Blood Heat
(*)
Dantiel W. Moniz

Milk Fed
(*)
Melissa Broder

The Removed
(*)
Brandon Hobson

Send for Me
(*)
Lauren Fox

The Survivors
(*)
Jane Harper

The Unwilling
(*)
John Hart

We Are Not Like Them
(*)
Christine Pride; Jo Piazza

We Run the Tides
(*)
Vendela Vida

Zorrie
(*)
Laird Hunt

Act Your Age, Eve Brown
(*)
Talia Hibbert

Band of Sisters
(*)
Lauren Willig

Brood
(*)
Jackie Polzin

Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
(*)
Jamie Figueroa

The Committed
(*)
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Cosmogony: Stories
(*)
Lucy Ives

Eternal
(*)
Lisa Scottoline

Every Last Fear
(*)
Alex Finlay

Every Vow You Break
(*)
Peter Swanson

Float Plan
(*)
Trish Doller

The Girls Are All So Nice Here
(*)
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Good Eggs
(*)
Rebecca Hardiman

Infinite Country
(*)
Patricia Engel

Klara and the Sun
(*)
Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lost Apothecary
(*)
Sarah Penner

The Lost Village
(*)
Camilla Sten

Raft of Stars
(*)
Andrew J. Graff

Red Island House
(*)
Andrea Lee

The Rose Code
(*)
Kate Quinn

The Smash-Up
(*)
Ali Benjamin

Vera
(*)
Carol Edgarian

The Windsor Knot
(*)
S.J. Bennett

Astrid Sees All
(*)
Natalie Standiford

The Elephant of Belfast
(*)
S. Kirk Walsh

Gold Diggers
(*)
Sanjena Sathian

The Good Sister
(*)
Sally Hepworth

Hot Stew
(*)
Fiona Mozley

Mirrorland
(*)
Carole Johnstone

Mother May I
(*)
Joshilyn Jackson

The Night Always Comes
(*)
Willy Vlautin

Northern Spy
(*)
Flynn Berry

Of Women and Salt
(*)
Gabriela Garcia

Permafrost
(*)
Eva Baltasar

What Comes After
(*)
JoAnne Tompkins

When the Stars Go Dark
(*)
Paula McLain

Ariadne
(*)
Jennifer Saint

Folklorn
(*)
Angela Mi Young Hur

Fugitive Telemetry
(*)
Martha Wells

Hour of the Witch
(*)
Chris Bohjalian

The Kingdoms
(*)
Natasha Pulley

The Last Thing He Told Me
(*)
Laura Dave

Local Woman Missing
(*)
Mary Kubica

Mary Jane
(*)
Jessica Anya Blau

Meet Me in Another Life
(*)
Catriona Silvey

The Music of Bees
(*)
Eileen Garvin

The Newcomer
(*)
Mary Kay Andrews

Olympus, Texas
(*)
Stacey Swann

People We Meet On Vacation
(*)
Emily Henry

The Photographer
(*)
Mary Dixie Carter

The Plot
(*)
Jean Hanff Korelitz

Project Hail Mary
(*)
Andy Weir

Secrets of Happiness
(*)
Joan Silber

Sorrowland
(*)
Rivers Solomon

The Soulmate Equation
(*)
Christina Lauren

Unsettled Ground
(*)
Claire Fuller

While Justice Sleeps
(*)
Stacey Abrams

The Woman with the Blue Star
(*)
Pam Jenoff

Animal
(*)
Lisa Taddeo

Bewilderness
(*)
Karen Tucker

The Chosen and the Beautiful
(*)
Nghi Vo

Dream Girl
(*)
Laura Lippman

Filthy Animals: Stories
(*)
Brandon Taylor

Future Feeling
(*)
Joss Lake

Heaven
(*)
Mieko Kawakami

Legends of the North Cascades
(*)
Jonathan Evison

The Maidens
(*)
Alex Michaelides

Malibu Rising
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

No Hiding in Boise
(*)
Kim Hooper

One Last Stop
(*)
Casey McQuiston

One Two Three
(*)
Laurie Frankel

The Other Black Girl
(*)
Zakiya Dalila Harris

Our Woman in Moscow
(*)
Beatriz Williams

Palace of the Drowned
(*)
Christine Mangan

Rabbits
(*)
Terry Miles

Songs in Ursa Major
(*)
Emma Brodie

Still Life
(*)
Sarah Winman

The Sweetness of Water
(*)
Nathan Harris

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
(*)
Tom Lin

True Crime Story
(*)
Joseph Knox

Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories
(*)
Nana Nkweti

The World Gives Way
(*)
Marissa Levien

Appleseed
(*)
Matt Bell

The Book of Accidents
(*)
Chuck Wendig

Dear Miss Metropolitan
(*)
Carolyn Ferrell

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
(*)
Emily Austin

The Final Girl Support Group
(*)
Grady Hendrix

The Forest of Vanishing Stars
(*)
Kristin Harmel

Intimacies
(*)
Katie Kitamura

Island Queen
(*)
Vanessa Riley

It Happened One Summer
(*)
Tessa Bailey

Nightbitch
(*)
Rachel Yoder

The Paper Palace
(*)
Miranda Cowley Heller

The Personal Librarian
(*)
Marie Benedict; Murray Victoria Christopher

A Psalm for the Wild-Built
(*)
Becky Chambers

She Who Became the Sun
(*)
Shelley Parker-Chan

The Startup Wife
(*)
Tahmima Anam

Such a Quiet Place
(*)
Megan Miranda

The Therapist
(*)
B.A. Paris

Afterparties: Stories
(*)
Anthony Veasna So

All's Well
(*)
Mona Awad

Clark and Division
(*)
Naomi Hirahara

Damnation Spring
(*)
Ash Davidson

Feral Creatures
(*)
Kira Jane Buxton

The Guide
(*)
Peter Heller

The Hunter and the Old Woman
(*)
Pamela Korgemagi

It's Not What You Thought It Would Be
(*)
Lizzy Stewart

Lightning Strike
(*)
William Kent Krueger

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
(*)
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

The Manningtree Witches
(*)
A.K. Blakemore

Mrs. March
(*)
Virginia Feito

Radiant Fugitives
(*)
Nawaaz Ahmed

The Reading List
(*)
Sara Nisha Adams

The Turnout
(*)
Megan Abbott

The Union of Synchronized Swimmers
(*)
Cristina Sandu

Velvet Was the Night
(*)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

We Are the Brennans
(*)
Tracey Lange

Where the Truth Lies
(*)
Anna Bailey

The Archer
(*)
Shruti Swamy

Beautiful World, Where Are You
(*)
Sally Rooney

Bewilderment
(*)
Richard Powers

The Book of Form and Emptiness
(*)
Ruth L. Ozeki

The Charm Offensive
(*)
Alison Cochrun

Dare to Know
(*)
James Kennedy

Empire of the Vampire
(*)
Jay Kristoff

Fault Lines
(*)
Emily Itami

Hao: Stories
(*)
Ye Chun

Harlem Shuffle
(*)
Colson Whitehead

The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
(*)
Zoraida Cordova

A Lot Like Adios
(*)
Alexis Daria

The Love Hypothesis
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

Never Saw Me Coming
(*)
Vera Kurian

The Night She Disappeared
(*)
Lisa Jewell

No Gods, No Monsters
(*)
Cadwell Turnbull

A Slow Fire Burning
(*)
Paula Hawkins

Under the Whispering Door
(*)
T.J. Klune

When Ghosts Come Home
(*)
Wiley Cash

The Book of Magic
(*)
Alice Hoffman

Death at Greenway
(*)
Lori Rader-Day

An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
(*)
Helene Tursten

The Ex Hex
(*)
Erin Sterling

Fight Night
(*)
Miriam Toews

I Will Die in a Foreign Land
(*)
Kalani Pickhart

Jacket Weather
(*)
Mike Decapite

The Last Graduate
(*)
Naomi Novik

The Last House on Needless Street
(*)
Catriona Ward

Light From Uncommon Stars
(*)
Ryka Aoki

The Lincoln Highway
(*)
Amor Towles

A Line to Kill
(*)
Anthony Horowitz

The Man Who Died Twice
(*)
Richard Osman

Murder at Mallowan Hall
(*)
Colleen Cambridge

My Monticello: Fiction
(*)
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Nothing But Blackened Teeth
(*)
Cassandra Khaw

Oh William!
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

Once Upon a Wardrobe
(*)
Patti Callahan

Payback's a Witch
(*)
Lana Harper

Sankofa
(*)
Chibundu Onuzo

A Spindle Splintered
(*)
Alix E. Harrow

Tales from the Cafe
(*)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

What Storm, What Thunder
(*)
Myriam J.A. Chancy

All Her Little Secrets
(*)
Wanda M. Morris

All the Feels
(*)
Olivia Dade

The Anomaly
(*)
Herve Le Tellier

Blue-Skinned Gods
(*)
S.J. Sindu

Cairo Circles
(*)
Doma Mahmoud

Chouette
(*)
Claire Oshetsky

Comfort Me With Apples
(*)
Catherynne M. Valente

Elder Race
(*)
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Five Tuesdays in Winter
(*)
Lily King

The Interim
(*)
Wolfgang Hilbig

Love in the Big City
(*)
Sang Young Park

A Marvellous Light
(*)
Freya Marske

Our Country Friends
(*)
Gary Shteyngart

The Perishing
(*)
Natashia Deon

Pity the Beast
(*)
Robin McLean

The Teller of Secrets
(*)
Bisi Adjapon

Termination Shock
(*)
Neal Stephenson

These Precious Days
(*)
Ann Patchett

These Silent Woods
(*)
Kimi Cunningham Grant

Win Me Something
(*)
Kyle Lucia Wu

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs
(*)
Jeffrey Cranor; Janina Matthewson

The Ballerinas
(*)
Rachel Kapelke-Dale

Beasts of a Little Land
(*)
Juhea Kim

Bright Burning Things
(*)
Lisa Harding

The Cat Who Saved Books
(*)
Sosuke Natsukawa

Dava Shastri's Last Day
(*)
Kirthana Ramisetti

A History of Wild Places
(*)
Shea Ernshaw

Murder Under Her Skin
(*)
Stephen Spotswood

People from My Neighborhood
(*)
Hiromi Kawakami

The Postmistress of Paris
(*)
Meg Waite Clayton

Where You Come From
(*)
Sasa Stanisic

Wish You Were Here
(*)
Jodi Picoult

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