2025 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

#1 Pick

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
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Grady Hendrix

Victorian Psycho
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Virginia Feito

Tilt
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Emma Pattee

Wild Dark Shore
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Charlotte McConaghy

My Friends
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Fredrik Backman

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
(*)
V.E. Schwab

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy
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Brigitte Knightley

When the Cranes Fly South
(*)
Lisa Ridzen

Katabasis
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R.F. Kuang

Heart the Lover
(*)
Lily King

Monthly Pick

The Bones Beneath My Skin
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T.J. Klune

Swordheart
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T. Kingfisher

What Happened to the McCrays?
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Tracey Lange

The Undercurrent
(*)
Sarah Sawyer

Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
(*)
Marianne Cronin

North Is the Night
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Emily Rath

All the Water in the World
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Eiren Caffall

Beautiful Ugly
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Alice Feeney

The Business Trip
(*)
Jessie Garcia

Death in the Downline
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Maria Abrams

The Favorites
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Layne Fargo

Good Girl
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Aria Aber

The Heart of Winter
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Jonathan Evison

I'll Come to You
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Rebecca Kauffman

The Lost House
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Melissa Larsen

The Lotus Shoes
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Jane Yang

More or Less Maddy
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Lisa Genova

Mothers and Sons
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Adam Haslett

The Naming of the Birds
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Paraic O'Donnell

The Note
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Alafair Burke

Out of the Woods
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Hannah Bonam-Young

The Perfect Home
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Daniel Kenitz

Playworld
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Adam Ross

Rosarita
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Anita Desai

Sweet Fury
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Sash Bischoff

The Three Lives of Cate Kay
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Kate Fagan

Water Moon
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Samantha Sotto Yambao

Beartooth
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Callan Wink

Black Woods, Blue Sky
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Eowyn Ivey

Blob: A Love Story
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Maggie Su

The City Changes Its Face
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Eimear McBride

Dream State
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Eric Puchner

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
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Heather Fawcett

First-Time Caller
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B.K. Borison

A Forty-Year Kiss
(*)
Nickolas Butler

The Garden
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Nick Newman

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com
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Kimberly Lemming

Idle Grounds
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Krystelle Bamford

Isola
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Allegra Goodman

The Lamb
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Lucy Rose

Last Twilight in Paris
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Pam Jenoff

Memorial Days
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Geraldine Brooks

Mutual Interest
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Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Old School Indian
(*)
Aaron John Curtis

The Queens of Crime
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Marie Benedict

Tartufo
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Kira Jane Buxton

This Is a Love Story
(*)
Jessica Soffer

Three Days in June
(*)
Anne Tyler

Too Soon
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Betty Shamieh

Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories
(*)
Amanda Peters

We Could Be Rats
(*)
Emily Austin

33 Place Brugmann
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Alice Austen

The Antidote
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Karen Russell

Broken Country
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Clare Leslie Hall

The Cafe with No Name
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Robert Seethaler

Count My Lies
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Sophie Stava

Deep Cuts
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Holly Brickley

Fundamentally
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Nussaibah Younis

Go Luck Yourself
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Sara Raasch

Hot Air
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Marcy Dermansky

Hunchback
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Saou Ichikawa

The Hymn to Dionysus
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Natasha Pulley

The Jackal's Mistress
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Chris Bohjalian

Kate & Frida
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Kim Fay

Killer Potential
(*)
Hannah Deitch

Murder by Memory
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Olivia Waite

O Sinners!
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Nicole Cuffy

Optional Practical Training
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Shubha Sunder

The Paris Express
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Emma Donoghue

The Passenger Seat
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Vijay Khurana

Red Dog Farm
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Nathaniel Ian Miller

The River Has Roots
(*)
Amal El-Mohtar

The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
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Ron Currie Jr.

Stag Dance
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Torrey Peters

Stop Me If You've Heard This One
(*)
Kristen Arnett

The Story She Left Behind
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Patti Callahan Henry

This Book Will Bury Me
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Ashley Winstead

The Unworthy
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Agustina Bazterrica

When the Moon Hits Your Eye
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John Scalzi

The Women on Platform Two
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Laura Anthony

Audition
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Katie Kitamura

Bad Nature
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Ariel Courage

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
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Kylie Lee Baker

Gabriële
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Anne Berest

Heartwood
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Amity Gaige

I See You've Called in Dead
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John Kenney

Murder at Gulls Nest
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Jess Kidd

The Night Trembles
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Nadia Terranova

Open, Heaven
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Sean Hewitt

The Pretender
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Jo Harkin

Say You'll Remember Me
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Abby Jimenez

The Sirens
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Emilia Hart

Sky Daddy
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Kate Folk

Sour Cherry
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Natalia Theodoridou

Wild and Wrangled
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Lyla Sage

Worthy of the Event
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Vivian Blaxell

Aftertaste
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Daria Lavelle

The Amalfi Curse
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Sarah Penner

Behooved
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M. Stevenson

The Book of Guilt
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Catherine Chidgey

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame
(*)
Neon Yang

The Correspondent
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Virginia Evans

The Emperor of Gladness
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Ocean Vuong

The Girls of Good Fortune
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Kristina McMorris

The Knight and the Moth
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Rachel Gillig

Left of Forever
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Tarah DeWitt

The Lilac People
(*)
Milo Todd

The Love Haters
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Katherine Center

Make Me Famous
(*)
Maud Ventura

The Man Made of Smoke
(*)
Alex North

The Manor of Dreams
(*)
Christina Li

The Missing Half
(*)
Ashley Flowers

My Best Friend's Honeymoon
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Meryl Wilsner

The Names
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Florence Knapp

No One Was Supposed to Die at this Wedding
(*)
Catherine Mack

Of Monsters and Mainframes
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Barbara Truelove

The Original Daughter
(*)
Jemimah Wei

The River Is Waiting
(*)
Wally Lamb

The Road to Tender Hearts
(*)
Annie Hartnett

Run for the Hills
(*)
Kevin Wilson

The Sea Gives Up the Dead: Stories
(*)
Molly Olguin

Shopgirls
(*)
Jessica Anya Blau

The Staircase in the Woods
(*)
Chuck Wendig

State Champ
(*)
Hilary Plum

Atmosphere: A Love Story
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Bug Hollow
(*)
Michelle Huneven

Don't Let Him In
(*)
Lisa Jewell

Endling
(*)
Maria Reva

A Family Matter
(*)
Claire Lynch

The Ghostwriter
(*)
Julie Clark

The Girls Who Grew Big
(*)
Leila Mottley

Great Black Hope
(*)
Rob Franklin

Hazel Says No
(*)
Jessica Berger Gross

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
(*)
Irene Sola

King of Ashes
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S.A. Cosby

The Listeners
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Maggie Stiefvater

Notes on Infinity
(*)
Austin Taylor

Penitence
(*)
Kristin Koval

So Far Gone
(*)
Jess Walter

Sounds Like Love
(*)
Ashley Poston

The Summer We Ran
(*)
Audrey Ingram

Arcana Academy
(*)
Elise Kova

The Bewitching
(*)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Compound
(*)
Aisling Rawle

Daikon
(*)
Samuel Hawley

The Enchanted Greenhouse
(*)
Sarah Beth Durst

Finding Grace
(*)
Loretta Rothschild

Hot Girls with Balls
(*)
Benedict Nguyen

In the Veins of the Drowning
(*)
Kalie Cassidy

The Library at Hellebore
(*)
Cassandra Khaw

Love Is a War Song
(*)
Danica Nava

Make Your Way Home: Stories
(*)
Carrie R. Moore

Mendell Station
(*)
J.B. Hwang

Not Quite Dead Yet
(*)
Holly Jackson

Party of Liars
(*)
Kelsey Cox

Rose in Chains
(*)
Julie Soto

The Satisfaction Cafe
(*)
Kathy Wang

These Summer Storms
(*)
Sarah MacLean

Vera, or Faith
(*)
Gary Shteyngart

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
(*)
Sangu Mandanna

Automatic Noodle
(*)
Annalee Newitz

The Blonde Who Came In from the Cold
(*)
Ally Carter

Dogs
(*)
C. Mallon

Dominion
(*)
Addie E. Citchens

The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey
(*)
Kathleen Kaufman

Hemlock & Silver
(*)
T. Kingfisher

The Hounding
(*)
Xenobe Purvis

Little World
(*)
Josephine Rowe

Lucky Day
(*)
Chuck Tingle

The Magician of Tiger Castle
(*)
Louis Sachar

The Man Who Died Seven Times
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YASUHIKO NISHIZAWA

People Like Us
(*)
Jason Mott

Sunburn
(*)
Chloe Michelle Howarth

Sunny Side Up
(*)
Katie Sturino

Tantrum
(*)
Rachel Eve Moulton

A Truce That Is Not Peace
(*)
Miriam Toews

Trying
(*)
Chloe Caldwell

Well, Actually
(*)
Mazey Eddings

Women, Seated
(*)
Yueran Zhang

You Belong Here
(*)
Megan Miranda

Zomromcom
(*)
Olivia Dade

Among the Burning Flowers
(*)
Samantha Shannon

The Book of I
(*)
David Greig

The Book of Lost Hours
(*)
Hayley Gelfuso

Buckeye
(*)
Patrick Ryan

Clown Town
(*)
Mick Herron

Discontent
(*)
Beatriz Serrano

Epic and Lovely
(*)
Mo Daviau

Exiles
(*)
Mason Coile

Forget Me Not
(*)
Stacy Willingham

Good and Evil and Other Stories
(*)
Samanta Schweblin

Happiness and Love
(*)
Zoe Dubno

Hot Desk
(*)
Laura Dickerman

Hot Wax
(*)
M.L. Rio

Hothouse Bloom
(*)
Austyn Wohlers

A Land So Wide
(*)
Erin A. Craig

Life, and Death, and Giants
(*)
Ron Rindo

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
(*)
Kiran Desai

Middle Spoon
(*)
Alejandro Varela

Mona's Eyes
(*)
Thomas Schlesser

The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy
(*)
Roan Parrish

People Watching
(*)
Hannah Bonam-Young

The Phoebe Variations
(*)
Jane Hamilton

Spread Me
(*)
Sarah Gailey

To the Moon and Back
(*)
Eliana Ramage

The Wax Child
(*)
Olga Ravn

We Love You, Bunny
(*)
Mona Awad

What We Can Know
(*)
Ian McEwan

The Wilderness
(*)
Angela Flournoy

Will There Ever Be Another You
(*)
Patricia Lockwood

You Weren't Meant to Be Human
(*)
Andrew Joseph White

Alchemy of Secrets
(*)
Stephanie Garber

Bog Queen
(*)
Anna North

Cinder House
(*)
Freya Marske

The Four Spent the Day Together
(*)
Chris Kraus

In a Distant Valley
(*)
Shannon Bowring

Overdue
(*)
Stephanie Perkins

Red City
(*)
Marie Lu

Sister Creatures
(*)
Laura Venita Green

Soul Searching
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Lyla Sage

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