2019 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

#1 Pick

Watching You
(*)
Lisa Jewell

Daisy Jones & The Six
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Guest Book
(*)
Sarah Blake

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
(*)
Ocean Vuong

The Nickel Boys
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Red at the Bone
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

This Tender Land
(*)
William Kent Krueger

Wake, Siren
(*)
Nina MacLaughlin

Starred Review

Aerialists: Stories
(*)
Mark Mayer

The Swallows
(*)
Lisa Lutz

The Saturday Night Ghost Club
(*)
Craig Davidson

The Winter of the Witch
(*)
Katherine Arden

Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

An Anonymous Girl
(*)
Greer Hendricks; Sarah Pekkanen

The Au Pair
(*)
Emma Rous

The Current
(*)
Tim Johnston

The Dreamers
(*)
Karen Thompson Walker

The Falconer
(*)
Dana Czapnik

The Far Field
(*)
Madhuri Vijay

Freefall
(*)
Jessica Barry

Ghost Wall
(*)
Sarah Moss

Golden State
(*)
Ben H. Winters

The Gown
(*)
Jennifer Robson

In an Absent Dream
(*)
Seanan McGuire

Looker
(*)
Laura Sims

Mouthful of Birds: Stories
(*)
Samanta Schweblin

Ninth House
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

The Only Woman in the Room
(*)
Marie Benedict

The Orphan of Salt Winds
(*)
Elizabeth Brooks

The Paragon Hotel
(*)
Lyndsay Faye

Sugar Run
(*)
Mesha Maren

To Keep the Sun Alive
(*)
Rabeah Ghaffari

Watching You
(*)
Lisa Jewell

The Water Cure
(*)
Sophie Mackintosh

The Weight of a Piano
(*)
Chris Cander

When You Read This
(*)
Mary Adkins

The Age of Light
(*)
Whitney Scharer

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
(*)
Marlon James

Bowlaway
(*)
Elizabeth McCracken

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
(*)
Anissa Gray

The Girls at 17 Swann Street
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Yara Zgheib

Golden Child
(*)
Claire Adam

The Hunting Party
(*)
Lucy Foley

The Huntress
(*)
Kate Quinn

The Last Romantics
(*)
Tara Conklin

Leading Men
(*)
Christopher Castellani

The Lost Girls of Paris
(*)
Pam Jenoff

Lost Children Archive
(*)
Valeria Luiselli

The Priory of the Orange Tree
(*)
Samantha Shannon

The Silent Patient
(*)
Alex Michaelides

Beautiful Bad
(*)
Annie Ward

The Bird King
(*)
G. Willow Wilson

Daisy Jones & The Six
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Gingerbread
(*)
Helen Oyeyemi

If, Then
(*)
Kate Hope Day

In Another Time
(*)
Jillian Cantor

The Island of Sea Women
(*)
Lisa See

Little Faith
(*)
Nickolas Butler

Lot: Stories
(*)
Bryan Washington

My Lovely Wife
(*)
Samantha Downing

The New Me
(*)
Halle Butler

Queenie
(*)
Candice Carty-Williams

The River
(*)
Peter Heller

When All Is Said
(*)
Anne Griffin

A Woman Is No Man
(*)
Etaf Rum

The Binding
(*)
Bridget Collins

Cape May
(*)
Chip Cheek

Courting Mr. Lincoln
(*)
Louis Bayard

The Editor
(*)
Steven Rowley

The Girl He Used to Know
(*)
Tracey Garvis Graves

Lights All Night Long
(*)
Lydia Fitzpatrick

Lost and Wanted
(*)
Nell Freudenberger

Lost Roses
(*)
Martha Hall Kelly

The Magnetic Girl
(*)
Jessica Handler

Miracle Creek
(*)
Angie Kim

Normal People
(*)
Sally Rooney

The Parisian
(*)
Isabella Hammad

Stay Up with Hugo Best
(*)
Erin Somers

Trust Exercise
(*)
Susan Choi

Women Talking
(*)
Miriam Toews

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
(*)
Kim Michele Richardson

The Bride Test
(*)
Helen Hoang

The Confessions of Frannie Langton
(*)
Sara Collins

Disappearing Earth
(*)
Julia Phillips

Exhalation: Stories
(*)
Ted Chiang

The Guest Book
(*)
Sarah Blake

How Not to Die Alone
(*)
Richard Roper

Lanny
(*)
Max Porter

Light from Other Stars
(*)
Erika Swyler

Loudermilk
(*)
Lucy Ives

The Night Before
(*)
Wendy Walker

Red, White & Royal Blue
(*)
Casey McQuiston

Resistance Women
(*)
Jennifer Chiaverini

Rules for Visiting
(*)
Jessica Francis Kane

The Scent Keeper
(*)
Erica Bauermeister

The Sentence Is Death
(*)
Anthony Horowitz

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
(*)
Juliet Grames

The Unhoneymooners
(*)
Christina Lauren

Ask Again, Yes
(*)
Mary Beth Keane

Bunny
(*)
Mona Awad

City of Girls
(*)
Elizabeth Gilbert

Evvie Drake Starts Over
(*)
Linda Holmes

FKA USA
(*)
Reed King

The Gone Dead
(*)
Chanelle Benz

The History of Living Forever
(*)
Jake Wolff

In West Mills
(*)
De'Shawn Charles Winslow

The Islanders
(*)
Meg Mitchell Moore

Magic for Liars
(*)
Sarah Gailey

The Most Fun We Ever Had
(*)
Claire Lombardo

Mostly Dead Things
(*)
Kristen Arnett

Mrs. Everything
(*)
Jennifer Weiner

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
(*)
Ocean Vuong

Recursion
(*)
Blake Crouch

The Snakes
(*)
Sadie Jones

The Stationery Shop
(*)
Marjan Kamali

The Tenth Muse
(*)
Catherine Chung

The Travelers
(*)
Regina Porter

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
(*)
Abbi Waxman

Family of Origin
(*)
C.J. Hauser

Gods of Jade and Shadow
(*)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Lady in the Lake
(*)
Laura Lippman

The Lager Queen of Minnesota
(*)
J. Ryan Stradal

The Last Book Party
(*)
Karen Dukess

The Lightest Object in the Universe
(*)
Kimi Eisele

The Need
(*)
Helen Phillips

The Nickel Boys
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Say Say Say
(*)
Lila Savage

Stay and Fight
(*)
Madeline Ffitch

Turbulence
(*)
David Szalay

Under Currents
(*)
Nora Roberts

The Wedding Party
(*)
Jasmine Guillory

Whisper Network
(*)
Chandler Baker

Chances Are . . .
(*)
Richard Russo

The Dearly Beloved
(*)
Cara Wall

The Escape Room
(*)
Megan Goldin

Hollow Kingdom
(*)
Kira Jane Buxton

Inland
(*)
Tea Obreht

Machine
(*)
Susan Steinberg

Never Have I Ever
(*)
Joshilyn Jackson

The Right Swipe
(*)
Alisha Rai

Summerlings
(*)
Lisa Howorth

Things You Save in a Fire
(*)
Katherine Center

Tidelands
(*)
Philippa Gregory

The Turn of the Key
(*)
Ruth Ware

We Are All Good People Here
(*)
Susan Rebecca White

The Whisper Man
(*)
Alex North

After the Flood
(*)
Kassandra Montag

The Beekeeper of Aleppo
(*)
Christy Lefteri

Bloomland
(*)
John Englehardt

The Chestnut Man
(*)
Soren Sveistrup

Cold Storage
(*)
David Koepp

A Cosmology of Monsters
(*)
Shaun Hamill

Dominicana
(*)
Angie Cruz

Ducks, Newburyport
(*)
Lucy Ellmann

The Dutch House
(*)
Ann Patchett

Gideon the Ninth
(*)
Tamsyn Muir

The Last Train to London
(*)
Meg Waite Clayton

The Long Call
(*)
Ann Cleeves

No Judgments
(*)
Meg Cabot

Opioid, Indiana
(*)
Brian Allen Carr

Red at the Bone
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Secrets We Kept
(*)
Lara Prescott

The Ten Thousand Doors of January
(*)
Alix E. Harrow

This Tender Land
(*)
William Kent Krueger

The Water Dancer
(*)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?
(*)
Brock Clarke

The World That We Knew
(*)
Alice Hoffman

All This Could Be Yours
(*)
Jami Attenberg

The Butterfly Girl
(*)
Rene Denfeld

Celestial Bodies
(*)
Jokha Alharthi

Full Throttle: Stories
(*)
Joe Hill

The Giver of Stars
(*)
JoJo Moyes

Grand Union: Stories
(*)
Zadie Smith

Imaginary Friend
(*)
Stephen Chbosky

Olive, Again
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

The Topeka School
(*)
Ben Lerner

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
(*)
Kate Racculia

Twice in a Blue Moon
(*)
Christina Lauren

The Accomplice
(*)
Joseph Kanon

The Bromance Book Club
(*)
Lyssa Kay Adams

The Deep
(*)
Rivers Solomon

The Family Upstairs
(*)
Lisa Jewell

Get a Life, Chloe Brown
(*)
Talia Hibbert

The Innocents
(*)
Michael Crummey

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
(*)
Dexter Palmer

Not the Girl You Marry
(*)
Andie J. Christopher

Nothing to See Here
(*)
Kevin Wilson

NVK
(*)
Temple Drake

On Swift Horses
(*)
Shannon Pufahl

The Revisioners
(*)
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Second Sleep
(*)
Robert Harris

The Starless Sea
(*)
Erin Morgenstern

Twenty-one Truths About Love
(*)
Matthew Dicks

Under Occupation
(*)
Alan Furst

Wake, Siren
(*)
Nina MacLaughlin

Anyone
(*)
Charles Soule

The Clergyman's Wife
(*)
Molly Greeley

Dead Astronauts
(*)
Jeff VanderMeer

The German House
(*)
Annette Hess

A Madness of Sunshine
(*)
Nalini Singh

The Sacrament
(*)
Olaf Olafsson

Trace of Evil
(*)
Alice Blanchard

The Wicked Redhead
(*)
Beatriz Williams

Winter Grave
(*)
Helene Tursten

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