Indie Next List

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Updated May 2, 2025
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Broken country : a novel
Hall, Clare Leslie
Paper Book
" A love triangle unearths dangerous, deadly secrets from the past in this thrilling tale perfect for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing. "The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him."<...
Wild dark shore
McConaghy, Charlotte
Paper Book
An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his...
Dream State
Puchner, Eric.
Paper Book
"Dream State is a delight...An exquisitely rendered novel about the vagaries of fate, and friendship, and love." --Alice McDermott, National Book Award winner and author of Absolution Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws' lake house in...
The Jackal's mistress : a novel
Bohjalian, Chris
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she's willing to risk...
The antidote
Russell, Karen
Paper Book
From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town
Count My Lies [Audiobook]
Stava, Sophie
Paper Book
A read-in-one-night suspense thriller about a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to enter into the life and comfort of a wealthy married couple who are harboring much darker secrets themselves. This is perfect for the millions of us still chasing those gone girls. Sloane...
One day, everyone will have always been against this
El Akkad, Omar
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values "[A] bracing memoir and manifesto."--The New York Times "I can...
33 Place Brugmann
Austen, Alice.
Paper Book
**The international bestseller** An unforgettable historical debut set in Second World War Brussels: exploring love, resistance and courage in all their forms 'I adored it ... It finds courage and love amidst the ruins, and I read with my heart in my...
Deep cuts : a novel
Brickley, Holly
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * TODAY SHOW SPRING PICK "Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song, Deep Cuts is both a romp into the indie sleaze era of the early aughts and a timeless love story."--Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters<...
The River Has Roots
El-Mohtar, Amal
Paper Book
AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARYREADS PICK! The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and...
Women on Platform Two
Anthony, Laura
Paper Book
In 1970s Dublin, all forms of contraception are strictly forbidden, but an intrepid group of women will risk everything to change that in this sweeping, timely novel inspired by a remarkable and little-known true story. Dublin, 1969: Maura has just married Dr. Christy Davenport...
Stag Dance
Peters, Torrey.
Paper Book
Trans life past, present and future is explored in this kaleidoscopic follow-up to the Women's Prize-nominated Detransition, Baby
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com
Lemming, Kimberly.
Paper Book
Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she's attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she's saved! On the not-so-bright side, it's because they're abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion commandeer an escape pod and crash-land on an alien...
Go Luck Yourself
Raasch, Sara
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--featuring stunning shamrock green sprayed edges! It's enemies to lovers in this sexy and delightful holiday mash up that pairs the spare prince of Christmas with the crown prince of St. Patrick's Day! Someone has been...
Red Dog Farm: A Novel
Miller, Nathaniel Ian.
Paper Book
From the author of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, an atmospheric novel about family, friends, and falling in love, as a young man tries to find purpose on a struggling Icelandic cattle farm Growing up on his family's cattle farm...
Fundamentally
Younis, Nussaibah
Paper Book
A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with a one-of-a-kind job offer--only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself. When Nadia Amin, a witty and bighearted PhD, publishes an article on...
The garden
Newman, Nick (Pseudonym)
Paper Book
A haunting, ethereal and beautiful twist on The Secret Garden, for fans of Shirley Jackson, Piranesi and Unsettled Ground 'Extraordinary... it already feels like a classic' Emerald Fennell, Oscar-winning director of PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN and SALTBURN 'A...
The Cafe with No Name
Seethaler, Robert.
Paper Book
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'How I loved this book . . . Seethaler is in his very own league' Elizabeth Strout It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a café on the corner of a bustling Vienna market....
Raising Hare: A Memoir
Dalton, Chloe.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE * A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK:...

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