2023 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

#1 Pick

Age of Vice
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Deepti Kapoor

How to Sell a Haunted House
(*)
Grady Hendrix

I Have Some Questions for You
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

Yours Truly
(*)
Abby Jimenez

Happy Place
(*)
Emily Henry

Yellowface
(*)
R.F. Kuang

Shark Heart
(*)
Emily Habeck

The Vaster Wilds
(*)
Lauren Groff

Death Valley
(*)
Melissa Broder

Let Us Descend
(*)
Jesmyn Ward

The Mystery Guest
(*)
Nita Prose

Monthly Pick

Amazing Grace Adams
(*)
Fran Littlewood

The Happy Couple
(*)
Naoise Dolan

Pandora
(*)
Susan Stokes-Chapman

Hourglass
(*)
Keiran Goddard

Better the Blood
(*)
Michael Bennett

Looking For Jane
(*)
Heather Marshall

All the Dangerous Things
(*)
Stacy Willingham

Bad Cree
(*)
Jessica Johns

The Bandit Queens
(*)
Parini Shroff

The Blackhouse
(*)
Carole Johnstone

Blaze Me a Sun
(*)
Christoffer Carlsson

The Chinese Groove
(*)
Kathryn Ma

City Under One Roof
(*)
Iris Yamashita

The Covenant of Water
(*)
Abraham Verghese

Decent People
(*)
De'Shawn Charles Winslow

The Deluge
(*)
Stephen Markley

The Dream Builders
(*)
Oindrila Mukherjee

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
(*)
Heather Fawcett

Everybody Knows
(*)
Jordan Harper

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
(*)
Benjamin Stevenson

Georgie, All Along
(*)
Kate Clayborn

Godkiller
(*)
Hannah Kaner

The Guest Lecture
(*)
Martin Riker

Hell Bent
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
(*)
Marisa Crane

In the Time of Our History
(*)
Susanne Pari

Lost in the Moment and Found
(*)
Seanan McGuire

The Mitford Affair
(*)
Marie Benedict

Moonrise Over New Jessup
(*)
Jamila Minnicks

Ms. Demeanor
(*)
Elinor Lipman

The New Life
(*)
Tom Crewe

The Night Travelers
(*)
Armando Lucas Correa

The Other Half
(*)
Charlotte Vassell

Really Good, Actually
(*)
Monica Heisey

Reef Road
(*)
Deborah Goodrich Royce

The Reunion
(*)
Kayla Olson

Sam
(*)
Allegra Goodman

The Survivalists
(*)
Kashana Cauley

The Villa
(*)
Rachel Hawkins

Wildfire
(*)
Hannah Grace

The Applicant
(*)
Nazli Koca

Big Swiss
(*)
Jen Beagin

Brutes
(*)
Dizz Tate

Don't Fear the Reaper
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

Eastbound
(*)
Maylis De Kerangal

Exiles
(*)
Jane Harper

Go as a River
(*)
Shelley Read

The House of Eve
(*)
Sadeqa Johnson

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
(*)
Roshani Chokshi

Maame
(*)
Jessica George

Murder Your Employer
(*)
Rupert Holmes

My Last Innocent Year
(*)
Daisy Alpert Florin

Our Share of Night
(*)
Mariana Enriquez

Radiant Sin
(*)
Katee Robert

Scorched Grace
(*)
Margot Douaihy

Secretly Yours
(*)
Tessa Bailey

Stone Blind
(*)
Natalie Haynes

Users
(*)
Colin Winnette

The Writing Retreat
(*)
Julia Bartz

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
(*)
S.A. Chakraborty

American Mermaid
(*)
Julia Langbein

The Angel Maker
(*)
Alex North

Beyond That, the Sea
(*)
Laura Spence-Ash

The Crane Husband
(*)
Kelly Barnhill

A Day of Fallen Night
(*)
Samantha Shannon

The Dig
(*)
Anne Burt

Dust Child
(*)
Nguyen Phan Que Mai

The Farewell Tour
(*)
Stephanie Clifford

Flux
(*)
Jinwoo Chong

The Foxglove King
(*)
Hannah Whitten

The God of Endings
(*)
Jacqueline Holland

The Golden Spoon
(*)
Jessa Maxwell

The Gospel of Orla
(*)
Eoghan Walls

Hello Beautiful
(*)
Ann Napolitano

The London Seance Society
(*)
Sarah Penner

Pineapple Street
(*)
Jenny Jackson

Time's Undoing
(*)
Cheryl A. Head

Wandering Souls
(*)
Cecile Pin

Weyward
(*)
Emilia Hart

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
(*)
Claire Jimenez

Blue Hour
(*)
Tiffany Clarke Harrison

Community Board
(*)
Tara Conklin

The Fiancee Farce
(*)
Alexandria Bellefleur

The Great Reclamation
(*)
Rachel Heng

Hang the Moon
(*)
Jeannette Walls

Homecoming
(*)
Kate Morton

The House Is on Fire
(*)
Rachel Beanland

House of Cotton
(*)
Monica Brashears

A House With Good Bones
(*)
T. Kingfisher

If We're Being Honest
(*)
Cat Shook

Lone Women
(*)
Victor Lavalle

The Only Survivors
(*)
Megan Miranda

Ozark Dogs
(*)
Eli Cranor

Romantic Comedy
(*)
Curtis Sittenfeld

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
(*)
J. Ryan Stradal

Some Desperate Glory
(*)
Emily Tesh

The Soulmate
(*)
Sally Hepworth

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
(*)
David Grann

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
(*)
Kelly Link

With My Little Eye
(*)
Joshilyn Jackson

You Could Make This Place Beautiful
(*)
Maggie Smith

Chain-Gang All-Stars
(*)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Clytemnestra
(*)
Costanza Casati

The East Indian
(*)
Brinda Charry

The Ferryman
(*)
Justin Cronin

The Guest
(*)
Emma Cline

The Half Moon
(*)
Mary Beth Keane

In the Lives of Puppets
(*)
T.J. Klune

The Late Americans
(*)
Brandon Taylor

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
(*)
Debra Magpie Earling

Mastering the Art of French Murder
(*)
Colleen Cambridge

Meet Me at the Lake
(*)
Carley Fortune

The Night Flowers
(*)
Sara Herchenroether

No Two Persons
(*)
Erica Bauermeister

The Postcard
(*)
Anne Berest

The Salt Grows Heavy
(*)
Cassandra Khaw

The Secret Book of Flora Lea
(*)
Patti Callahan Henry

Small Mercies
(*)
Dennis Lehane

To Shape a Dragon's Breath
(*)
Moniquill Blackgoose

The True Love Experiment
(*)
Christina Lauren

You Are Here
(*)
Karin Lin-Greenberg

All the Sinners Bleed
(*)
S.A. Cosby

The Celebrants
(*)
Steven Rowley

Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective
(*)
Katie Siegel

Chef's Choice
(*)
T.J. Alexander

Crow Mary
(*)
Kathleen Grissom

Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
(*)
Rita Chang-Eppig

Drowning
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T.J. Newman

Everything's Fine
(*)
Cecilia Rabess

Good Night, Irene
(*)
Luis Alberto Urrea

Ink Blood Sister Scribe
(*)
Emma Torzs

Killingly
(*)
Katharine Beutner

Lady Tan's Circle of Women
(*)
Lisa See

Love, Theoretically
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

Lucky Red
(*)
Claudia Cravens

Maeve Fly
(*)
C.J. Leede

The Memory of Animals
(*)
Claire Fuller

Mrs. S
(*)
K. Patrick

My Murder
(*)
Katie Williams

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories
(*)
Agustina Bazterrica

Psyche and Eros
(*)
Luna McNamara

The Puzzle Master
(*)
Danielle Trussoni

The Quiet Tenant
(*)
Clemence Michallon

The Road to Dalton
(*)
Shannon Bowring

Witch King
(*)
Martha Wells

Zero Days
(*)
Ruth Ware

All-Night Pharmacy
(*)
Ruth Madievsky

The Apartment
(*)
Ana Menendez

Banyan Moon
(*)
Thao Thai

Business or Pleasure
(*)
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Camp Damascus
(*)
Chuck Tingle

Crook Manifesto
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
(*)
Satoshi Yagisawa

Do Tell
(*)
Lindsay Lynch

The Forest Brims Over
(*)
Maru Ayase

Forget Me Not
(*)
Julie Soto

Hello Stranger
(*)
Katherine Center

The Housekeepers
(*)
Alex Hay

Immortal Longings
(*)
Chloe Gong

Kala
(*)
Colin Walsh

The Librarianist
(*)
Patrick deWitt

Little Monsters
(*)
Adrienne Brodeur

The Militia House
(*)
John Milas

The Rachel Incident
(*)
Caroline O'Donoghue

Ripe
(*)
Sarah Rose Etter

The Seven Year Slip
(*)
Ashley Poston

Silver Nitrate
(*)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Summer of Songbirds
(*)
Kristy Woodson Harvey

The Woman in the Castello
(*)
Kelsey James

The Blonde Identity
(*)
Ally Carter

The Connellys of County Down
(*)
Tracey Lange

Cruel Seduction
(*)
Katee Robert

Family Lore
(*)
Elizabeth Acevedo

The Free People's Village
(*)
Sim Kern

The Great Transition
(*)
Nick Fuller Googins

He Who Drowned the World
(*)
Shelley Parker-Chan

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
(*)
James McBride

In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel
(*)
Genevieve Plunkett

The Invisible Hour
(*)
Alice Hoffman

Knockout
(*)
Sarah MacLean

The Last Ranger
(*)
Peter Heller

Looking Glass Sound
(*)
Catriona Ward

Mister Magic
(*)
Kiersten White

None of This Is True
(*)
Lisa Jewell

Plot Twist
(*)
Erin La Rosa

Terrace Story
(*)
Hilary Leichter

Thornhedge
(*)
T. Kingfisher

Time's Mouth
(*)
Edan Lepucki

Tom Lake
(*)
Ann Patchett

Whalefall
(*)
Daniel Kraus

The Breakaway
(*)
Jennifer Weiner

Chenneville
(*)
Paulette Jiles

Cleat Cute
(*)
Meryl Wilsner

Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare: Stories
(*)
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Fall of Ruin and Wrath
(*)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Fraud
(*)
Zadie Smith

Happiness Falls
(*)
Angie Kim

The Heart of It All
(*)
Christian Kiefer

Landscapes
(*)
Christine Lai

Mother-Daughter Murder Night
(*)
Nina Simon

My Roommate Is a Vampire
(*)
Jenna Levine

North Woods
(*)
Daniel Mason

The River We Remember
(*)
William Kent Krueger

Rouge
(*)
Mona Awad

The Secret Hours
(*)
Mick Herron

The September House
(*)
Carissa Orlando

The Square of Sevens
(*)
Laura Shepherd-Robinson

Starter Villain
(*)
John Scalzi

Wellness
(*)
Nathan Hill

What Kind of Mother
(*)
Clay McLeod Chapman

America Fantastica
(*)
Tim O'Brien

Bright Lights, Big Christmas
(*)
Mary Kay Andrews

Bright Young Women
(*)
Jessica Knoll

Company: Stories
(*)
Shannon Sanders

Family Meal
(*)
Bryan Washington

The Fragile Threads of Power
(*)
V.E. Schwab

The Hive and the Honey: Stories
(*)
Paul Yoon

A Holly Jolly Ever After
(*)
Julie Murphy; Sierra Simone

The House of Doors
(*)
Tan Twan Eng

The Hurricane Wars
(*)
Thea Guanzon

I Must Be Dreaming
(*)
Roz Chast

Land of Milk and Honey
(*)
C. Pam Zhang

The MANIAC
(*)
Benjamin Labatut

One Woman Show
(*)
Christine Coulson

Our Strangers: Stories
(*)
Lydia Davis

The Premonition
(*)
Banana Yoshimoto

The Reformatory
(*)
Tananarive Due

Starling House
(*)
Alix E. Harrow

Straw Dogs of the Universe
(*)
Ye Chun

Sword Catcher
(*)
Cassandra Clare

West Heart Kill
(*)
Dann McDorman

The Berry Pickers
(*)
Amanda Peters

Bookshops & Bonedust
(*)
Travis Baldree

Calamity
(*)
Constance Fay

Day
(*)
Michael Cunningham

The Future
(*)
Naomi Alderman

Inheritance
(*)
Nora Roberts

Iris Kelly Doesn't Date
(*)
Ashley Herring Blake

The Madstone
(*)
Elizabeth Crook

Other Minds and Other Stories
(*)
Bennett Sims

A Power Unbound
(*)
Freya Marske

Same Bed Different Dreams
(*)
Ed Park

So Late in the Day
(*)
Claire Keegan

System Collapse
(*)
Martha Wells

The Vulnerables
(*)
Sigrid Nunez

Wings of Red
(*)
James W. Jennings

Alice Sadie Celine
(*)
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories
(*)
Louise Kennedy

The Fake Mate
(*)
Lana Ferguson

The Fiction Writer
(*)
Jillian Cantor

The Frozen River
(*)
Ariel Lawhon

The Last Love Note
(*)
Emma Grey

The Liberators
(*)
E.J. Koh

Meet the Benedettos
(*)
Katie Cotugno

Mercy
(*)
Sara Cate

The Other Mothers
(*)
Katherine Faulkner

Raiders of the Lost Heart
(*)
Jo Segura

Ruined
(*)
Sarah Vaughn

Second Chances in New Port Stephen
(*)
T.J. Alexander

Welcome Home, Stranger
(*)
Kate Christensen

The Wildest Sun
(*)
Asha Lemmie

Yours for the Taking
(*)
Gabrielle Korn

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