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....
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
James Islington
INSTANT #1 New York Times bestseller! This USA TODAY and international bestseller features a reversible book cover that matches the original hardcover art design, and beautifully designed endpapers. This highly anticipated sequel to The...
Good Spirits
B.K. Borison
Paper Book
A special limited edition paperback features festive stenciled edges and interior cover artwork! 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...
Brigands & Breadknives
Travis Baldree
Paper Book
An instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller! 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...
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...
Fallen City
Adrienne Young
Paper Book
The collector's hardcover features stenciled edges, full-color custom character endpapers, unique foiled front and back case stamps and foiled cover elements. In the great walled city of Isara, political turmoil ignites a rebellion one hundred years in the making. But when...
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...
Bad Bad Girl: A Novel
Gish Jen
A TIME "100 BEST" BOOK OF THE YEAR * BEST OF FALL: Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, People, Oprah Daily, Writer's Digest, W Magazine * RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICK * An engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.
The Ferryman and His Wife: A Novel
Frode Grytten
A LIBRARY READS PICK AND ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 In the spirit of Amor Towles and George Saunders, the renowned, bestselling Norwegian author Frode Grytten takes readers on a quietly epic journey: ferry driver Nils Vik's last route along the fjord, on...
Sacrament: A Novel
Susan Straight
From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, a captivating new novel about a group of nurses fighting through the first year of a pandemic and the beloved California community they will risk their lives to protect In August 2020, a group of nurses are working in the ICU at a...
The Devil She Knows
Alexandria Bellefleur
Paper Book
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
Black-Owned celebrates the history of Black bookstores and their role as centerpieces of resistance and liberation. Drawn from the author's in-depth research and reporting, Black-Owned is a story of activism, espionage, violence, and perseverance. Char Adams details Black bookstores' battles with...
Daddy Issues: A Novel (Dial Delights)
Kate Goldbeck
"Clever, honest, sexy, funny, emotional, unique, and deeply romantic . . . Kate Goldbeck is in a class by herself!"--Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A jaded twentysomething is stuck living at home, her...
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
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--a beautiful hardcover edition featuring dark teal sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and full-page illustrations! Instant New York Times bestseller * USA Today bestseller * National Indie bestseller October 2025 LibraryReads Hall...
An Academic Affair
Jodi McAlister
From the "masterly" (The New York Times) Jodi McAlister, a charming new romance about two English professors who embark on a fake relationship...only to discover that it may be harder to pretend than they realized. Sadie Shaw and Jonah Fisher have been academic...

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