Indie Next List

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Updated October 19, 2025
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What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. "It gave me so...
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
Paper Book
BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST * KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years--an epic of love and family,...
Heart the Lover
Lily King
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her heart. We are so lucky." --Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow From the New York...
We Love You, Bunny
Mona Awad
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A finalist for the 2025 Giller Prize Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle,...
Awake: A Memoir
Jen Hatmaker
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "I can't imagine any woman reading this without feeling seen, inspired, and totally empowered." --Mel Robbins * "A MASTERPIECE, you guys. This memoir by the great Jen Hatmaker *cannot* be missed. I was riveted as if to a thriller and touched/moved/inspired in...
The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "Flournoy has delivered a future classic--the kind of novel that generations to come will read to understand the nuances and peculiarities of this time."...
Exiles
Mason Coile
A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William--this time set on a remote outpost on Mars. The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray--the...
Spread Me
Sarah Gailey
Paper Book
Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when the team discovers a strange specimen in search of a warm place to stay. Kinsey has the perfect job...
The Book of Guilt
Catherine Chidgey
Paper Book
In an alternate world where nobody won WWII, three brothers are the only boys left in an orphanage whose dark secret is the reason for their existence--and the key to their survival--from the acclaimed author of Pet. After a very different outcome to WWII...
The Phoebe Variations: A Novel
Jane Hamilton
Instant National Bestseller An Oprah Daily Best Book of Fall An Indie Next Pick for October A LibraryReads Pick for September The acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and...
We Could Be Rats
Emily Austin
Paper Book
A "one-sitting-read" (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination--from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts...

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