Indie Next List

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Updated April 2, 2025
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Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall
Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
'At once a gripping mystery, an exquisitely written ode to the natural world, and a taut, psychological thriller, Wild Dark Shore is a triumph. Charlotte McConaghy is masterful in her ability to show the intricate connections between place and the human heart, and Wild Dark Shore...
Dream State: A Novel
Eric Puchner
The Jackal's Mistress: A Novel
Chris Bohjalian
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 for the life of a stranger, from the New York Times bestselling author of such...
The Antidote
Karen Russell
'Powerful' Financial Times 'A pure dust storm of utter genius' DAISY JOHNSON 'As profound as it is wonderfully strange' LAUREN GROFF What do we choose to remember and what do we allow ourselves to forget? Visit the...
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, an urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the...
33 Place Brugmann
Alice Austen
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 mouth' Rachel Joyce 'A beautiful and...
Deep Cuts
Holly Brickley
Good songs come from love. Great songs come from heartbreak. ------------------------------------------------------- Picked by Cosmopolitan and RED as a best book of 2025. 'For fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and One Day, here is the will they, won't they love story of...
The Unworthy: A Novel
Agustina Bazterrica
A fearsomely dark, incantatory new dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic convent from the author of viral sensation Tender is the Flesh
Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
Torrey Peters
Trans life past, present and future is explored in this kaleidoscopic follow-up to the Women's Prize-nominated Detransition, Baby
Fundamentally
Nussaibah Younis
The Garden
Nick Newman
'The Garden is both a horror story and a meditation on love at the end of the world. It's a testament to Newman's extraordinary gifts that its creeping dread never overwhelms its tenderness.' Emerald Fennell, Oscar-winning director of PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN and SALTBURN
The Passenger Seat
Vijay Khurana
'[an] unsettling and powerful debut' - New York Times Approaching the wrong person with open hands can be fatal.   Seeking escape from their small-town existence, two teenagers impulsively drive north, with no...
Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton

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