Indie Next List

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Updated November 28, 2025
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Queen Esther
John Irving
Paper Book
After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award-winning film, The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther--a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism....
Good Spirits
B.K. Borison
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! "Good Spirits is an absolute knockout. A new Borison book feels like coming home in the best way. She's truly in a league of her own." -- Hannah Grace, New York Times bestselling author of Icebreaker<...
Brigands & Breadknives
Travis Baldree
Paper Book
Return to the fantasy world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with a new adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller's life for decades, but now, in the face of...
Girl Dinner
Olivie Blake
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring hot pink sprayed edges! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner is a darkly fun novel about power, lust, and eating your fill, as wealthy...
The White Hot: A Novel
Quiara Alegría Hudes
The story of a runaway mother's ten days of freedom--and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment--from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes. "The White Hot has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April's is one...
The Devil She Knows
Alexandria Bellefleur
USA Today Bestseller | One of People's Must-Read Books of Fall 2025 | LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick | IndieNext Pick "A fantasy-tinged sapphic romance with perfect banter."--People A down-on-her-luck woman makes a deal with a crafty demon to win...
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Char Adams
**A November LibraryReads Pick** Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights...
Cursed Daughters
Oyinkan Braithwaite
A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the...
Wreck: A Novel
Catherine Newman
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK · INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Wreck is a delight. What an absolute joy to be reunited with Rocky and her family, the characters we all fell in love with in Sandwich. Newman's prose is laugh-out-loud funny. It...
The Everlasting
Alix E. Harrow

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