2016 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

Starred Review

After the Crash
(*)
Michel Bussi

Before the Fall
(*)
Noah Hawley

American Housewife: Stories
(*)
Helen Ellis

And Again
(*)
Jessica Chiarella

The Children's Home
(*)
Charles Lambert

The Expatriates
(*)
Janice Y.K. Lee

Fallen Land
(*)
Taylor Brown

The Guest Room
(*)
Chris Bohjalian

The Gun
(*)
Fuminori Nakamura

Mr. Splitfoot
(*)
Samantha Hunt

My Name Is Lucy Barton
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

Only Love Can Break Your Heart
(*)
Ed Tarkington

Orphan X
(*)
Gregg Hurwitz

The Past
(*)
Tessa Hadley

The Portable Veblen
(*)
Elizabeth McKenzie

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
(*)
Katarina Bivald; Alice Menzies

The Song of Hartgrove Hall
(*)
Natasha Solomons

The Things We Keep
(*)
Sally Hepworth

The Unfinished World and Other Stories
(*)
Amber Sparks

The Visitors
(*)
Simon Sylvester

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
(*)
Sunil Yapa

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
(*)
Mona Awad

All the Birds in the Sky
(*)
Charlie Jane Anders

All the Winters After
(*)
Sere Prince Halverson

The Arrangement
(*)
Ashley Warlick

Be Frank with Me
(*)
Julia Claiborne Johnson

Breaking Wild
(*)
Diane Les Becquets

A Doubter's Almanac
(*)
Ethan Canin

The Flood Girls
(*)
Richard Fifield

The Forgetting Time
(*)
Sharon Guskin

Georgia
(*)
Dawn Clifton Tripp

Green Island
(*)
Shawna Yang Ryan

Hide
(*)
Matthew Griffin

Missing Pieces
(*)
Heather Gudenkauf

The Queen of the Night
(*)
Alexander Chee

The Ramblers
(*)
Aidan Donnelley Rowley

Sudden Death
(*)
Alvaro Enrigue

The Swans of Fifth Avenue
(*)
Melanie Benjamin

Sweetgirl
(*)
Travis Mulhauser

Under the Influence
(*)
Joyce Maynard

The Widow
(*)
Fiona Barton

The Yid
(*)
Paul Goldberg

At the Edge of the Orchard
(*)
Tracy Chevalier

Behave
(*)
Andromeda Romano-Lax

Blackass
(*)
A. Igoni Barrett

Bottomland
(*)
Michelle Hoover

The Charm Bracelet
(*)
Viola Shipman

Jane Steele
(*)
Lyndsay Faye

The Madwoman Upstairs
(*)
Catherine Lowell

A Man Lies Dreaming
(*)
Lavie Tidhar

Margaret the First
(*)
Danielle Dutton

The Passenger
(*)
Lisa Lutz

Shelter
(*)
Jung Yun

Spill Simmer Falter Wither
(*)
Sara Baume

The Summer Before the War
(*)
Helen Simonson

The Travelers
(*)
Chris Pavone

Two If by Sea
(*)
Jacquelyn Mitchard

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
(*)
Helen Oyeyemi

Daredevils
(*)
Shawn Vestal

Dodgers
(*)
Bill Beverly

Eligible
(*)
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fellside
(*)
M.R. Carey

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
(*)
Dominic Smith

Lilac Girls
(*)
Martha Hall Kelly

Maestra
(*)
L.S. Hilton

Most Wanted
(*)
Lisa Scottoline

Mothering Sunday
(*)
Graham Swift

The One-In-A-Million Boy
(*)
Monica Wood

The Railwayman's Wife
(*)
Ashley Hay

Tuesday Nights in 1980
(*)
Molly Prentiss

The After Party
(*)
Anton Disclafani

Britt-Marie Was Here
(*)
Fredrik Backman

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
(*)
Phaedra Patrick

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
(*)
Chris Cleave

Everybody's Fool
(*)
Richard Russo

Father's Day
(*)
Simon Van Booy

The Fireman
(*)
Joe Hill

Heat and Light
(*)
Jennifer Haigh

Imagine Me Gone
(*)
Adam Haslett

Larose
(*)
Louise Erdrich

The Mirror Thief
(*)
Martin Seay

My Best Friend's Exorcism
(*)
Grady Hendrix

Over the Plain Houses
(*)
Julia Franks

Redemption Road
(*)
John Hart

Sleeping Giants
(*)
Sylvain Neuvel

Smoke
(*)
Dan Vyleta

The Sport of Kings
(*)
C.E. Morgan

The Versions of Us
(*)
Laura Barnett

The Weekenders
(*)
Mary Kay Andrews

As Good as Gone
(*)
Larry Watson

Barkskins
(*)
Annie Proulx

Brighton
(*)
Michael Harvey

Disappearance at Devil's Rock
(*)
Paul Tremblay

Goodnight, Beautiful Women
(*)
Anna Noyes

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
(*)
Max Porter

Homegoing
(*)
Yaa Gyasi

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
(*)
Iain Reid

If I Forget You
(*)
Thomas Christopher Greene

The Insides
(*)
Jeremy P. Bushnell

Lily and the Octopus
(*)
Steven Rowley

Marrow Island
(*)
Alexis Smith

Modern Lovers
(*)
Emma Straub

My Last Continent
(*)
Midge Raymond

So Much for That Winter
(*)
Dorthe Nors

Soft in the Head
(*)
Marie-Sabine Roger

Vinegar Girl
(*)
Anne Tyler

Wintering
(*)
Peter Geye

All Is Not Forgotten
(*)
Wendy Walker

A Certain Age
(*)
Beatriz Williams

The Heavenly Table
(*)
Donald Ray Pollock

How to Set a Fire and Why
(*)
Jesse Ball

A Hundred Thousand Worlds
(*)
Bob Proehl

Miss Jane
(*)
Brad Watson

Pond
(*)
Claire-Louise Bennett

The Secret Language of Stones
(*)
M.J. Rose

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
(*)
Joanna Cannon

The Woman in Cabin 10
(*)
Ruth Ware

The Altogether Unexpected Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman
(*)
Mamen Sanchez

Arrowood
(*)
Laura McHugh

Behind Closed Doors
(*)
B.A. Paris

The Bones of Paradise
(*)
Jonis Agee

The Book That Matters Most
(*)
Ann Hood

Carousel Court
(*)
Joe McGinniss Jr.

Christodora
(*)
Tim Murphy

The City Baker's Guide to Country Living
(*)
Louise Miller

Dark Matter
(*)
Blake Crouch

The Gentleman
(*)
Forrest Leo

Half Wild
(*)
Robin MacArthur

The House with No Windows
(*)
Nadia Hashimi

I Will Send Rain
(*)
Rae Meadows

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
(*)
Scott Stambach

Mr. Eternity
(*)
Aaron Thier

The Muse
(*)
Jessie Burton

The Summer That Melted Everything
(*)
Tiffany McDaniel

Children of the New World: Stories
(*)
Alexander Weinstein

Darktown
(*)
Thomas Mullen

The Fortunes
(*)
Peter Ho Davies

A Gentleman in Moscow
(*)
Amor Towles

A Great Reckoning
(*)
Louise Penny

The Kept Woman
(*)
Karin Slaughter

Lady Cop Makes Trouble
(*)
Amy Stewart

Leave Me
(*)
Gayle Forman

Little Nothing
(*)
Marisa Silver

Loner
(*)
Teddy Wayne

Mischling
(*)
Affinity Konar

The Nix
(*)
Nathan Hill

Razor Girl
(*)
Carl Hiaasen

Reputations
(*)
Juan Gabriel Vasquez

The Risen
(*)
Ron Rash

The Underground Railroad
(*)
Colson Whitehead

A Whole Life
(*)
Robert Seethaler

The Wonder
(*)
Emma Donoghue

All That Man Is: Stories
(*)
David Szalay

Cruel Beautiful World
(*)
Caroline Leavitt

The Education of Dixie Dupree
(*)
Donna Everhart

The Fall Guy
(*)
James Lasdun

A Gambler's Anatomy
(*)
Jonathan Lethem

The German Girl
(*)
Armando Lucas Correa

The Girl from Venice
(*)
Martin Cruz Smith

Inheriting Edith
(*)
Zoe Fishman

IQ
(*)
Joe Ide

The Life-Writer
(*)
David Constantine

The Loved Ones
(*)
Sonya Chung

Mercury
(*)
Margot Livesey

Mister Monkey
(*)
Francine Prose

News of the World
(*)
Paulette Jiles

The Next
(*)
Stephanie Gangi

Nicotine
(*)
Nell Zink

The Other Einstein
(*)
Marie Benedict

Small Great Things
(*)
Jodi Picoult

The Terranauts
(*)
T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

Today Will Be Different
(*)
Maria Semple

The Trespasser
(*)
Tana French

The Wangs vs. the World
(*)
Jade Chang

Cabo de Gata
(*)
Eugen Ruge

The Clay Girl
(*)
Heather Tucker

I'll Take You There
(*)
Wally Lamb

Night School
(*)
Lee Child

Orphans of the Carnival
(*)
Carol Birch

Swing Time
(*)
Zadie Smith

Ema the Captive
(*)
Cesar Aira

The Fate of the Tearling
(*)
Erika Johansen

Normal
(*)
Warren Ellis

Out of Bounds
(*)
Val McDermid

To Capture What We Cannot Keep
(*)
Beatrice Colin

The Whole Town's Talking
(*)
Fannie Flagg

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