Indie Next - #1 Pick (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

2024

The Fury
(*)
Alex Michaelides

Bride
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

Wandering Stars
(*)
Tommy Orange

2023

Age of Vice
(*)
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

2022

To Paradise
(*)
Hanya Yanagihara

Love & Saffron
(*)
Kim Fay

One Italian Summer
(*)
Rebecca Serle

Sea of Tranquility
(*)
Emily St. John Mandel

Book Lovers
(*)
Emily Henry

This Time Tomorrow
(*)
Emma Straub

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
(*)
Gabrielle Zevin

Love on the Brain
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
(*)
Jamie Ford

Our Missing Hearts
(*)
Celeste Ng

We Are the Light
(*)
Matthew Quick

The Light Pirate
(*)
Lily Brooks-Dalton

2021

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

2020

American Dirt
(*)
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

2019

Watching You
(*)
Lisa Jewell

Daisy Jones & The Six
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Guest Book
(*)
Sarah Blake

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
(*)
Ocean Vuong

The Nickel Boys
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Red at the Bone
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

This Tender Land
(*)
William Kent Krueger

Wake, Siren
(*)
Nina MacLaughlin

2018

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

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