2022 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

#1 Pick

To Paradise
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Hanya Yanagihara

Love & Saffron
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Kim Fay

One Italian Summer
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Rebecca Serle

Sea of Tranquility
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Emily St. John Mandel

Book Lovers
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Emily Henry

This Time Tomorrow
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Emma Straub

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Gabrielle Zevin

Love on the Brain
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Ali Hazelwood

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
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Jamie Ford

Our Missing Hearts
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Celeste Ng

We Are the Light
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Matthew Quick

The Light Pirate
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Lily Brooks-Dalton

Starred Review

Go Back at Once
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Robert Aickman

Foster
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Claire Keegan

Shady Hollow
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Juneau Black

The Mermaid of Black Conch
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Monique Roffey

The Employees
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Olga Ravn

How to Survive Everything
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Ewan Morrison

And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir
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Margaret Kimball

The Secret to Superhuman Strength
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Alison Bechdel

Grown Ups
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Marie Aubert

The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
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Matt Cain

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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Rebecca Hall

Samira Surfs
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Rukhsanna Guidroz

Case Study
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Graeme Macrae Burnet

Beautiful Little Fools
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Jillian Cantor

Bibliolepsy
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Gina Apostol

Brown Girls
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Daphne Palasi Andreades

Daughter of the Moon Goddess
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Sue Lynn Tan

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
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Eva Jurczyk

Devil House
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John Darnielle

Electric Idol
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Katee Robert

Fiona and Jane: Stories
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Jean Chen Ho

A Flicker in the Dark
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Stacy Willingham

The Good Son
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Jacquelyn Mitchard

Honor
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Thrity Umrigar

How High We Go in the Dark
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Sequoia Nagamatsu

Joan Is Okay
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Weike Wang

The Last House on the Street
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Diane Chamberlain

The Latinist
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Mark Prins

The Maid
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Nita Prose

Mouth to Mouth
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Antoine Wilson

Must Love Books
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Shauna Robinson

No Land to Light On
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Yara Zgheib

None But the Righteous
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Chantal James

Olga Dies Dreaming
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Xochitl Gonzalez

Perpetual West
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Mesha Maren

Reckless Girls
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Rachel Hawkins

The School for Good Mothers
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Jessamine Chan

Seasonal Work: Stories
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Laura Lippman

Small World
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Jonathan Evison

The Starless Crown
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James Rollins

Violeta
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Isabel Allende

Wahala
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Nikki May

The Boy with a Bird in His Chest
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Emme Lund

The Christie Affair
(*)
Nina De Gramont

Delilah Green Doesn't Care
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Ashley Herring Blake

Don't Cry for Me
(*)
Daniel Black

The Family Chao
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Lan Samantha Chang

Greenwich Park
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Katherine Faulkner

Jawbone
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Monica Ojeda

Love Marriage
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Monica Ali

New Animal
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Ella Baxter

Notes on an Execution
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Danya Kukafka

Pure Colour
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Sheila Heti

The Swimmers
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Julie Otsuka

The Verifiers
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Jane Pek

The Violin Conspiracy
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Brendan Slocumb

Vladimir
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Julia May Jonas

What the Fireflies Knew
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Kai Harris

Booth
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Karen Joy Fowler

The Cartographers
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Peng Shepherd

Chorus
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Rebecca Kauffman

Disorientation
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Elaine Hsieh Chou

French Braid
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Anne Tyler

Girl In Ice
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Erica Ferencik

The Golden Couple
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Greer Hendricks; Sarah Pekkanen

Groundskeeping
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Lee Cole

Hook, Line, and Sinker
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Tessa Bailey

The Houseboat
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Dane Bahr

The Kaiju Preservation Society
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John Scalzi

The Lightning Rod
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Brad Meltzer

Nine Lives
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Peter Swanson

The Paris Apartment
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Lucy Foley

Portrait of an Unknown Lady
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Maria Gainza

Reptile Memoirs
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Silje Ulstein

Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories
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Sindya Bhanoo

Tell Me an Ending
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Jo Harkin

The Tobacco Wives
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Adele Myers

The Unsinkable Greta James
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Jennifer E. Smith

When We Were Birds
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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

The Wonders
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Elena Medel

The Candy House
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Jennifer Egan

The Caretakers
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Amanda Bestor-Siegal

Fevered Star
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Rebecca Roanhorse

Four Treasures of the Sky
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Jenny Tinghui Zhang

I Am Quiet
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Andie Powers

Legends & Lattes
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Travis Baldree

Lessons in Chemistry
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Bonnie Garmus

Let's Not Do That Again
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Grant Ginder

Memphis
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Tara M. Stringfellow

The Sign for Home
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Blair Fell

Sister Stardust
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Jane Green

Spear
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Nicola Griffith

Take My Hand
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Trespasses
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Louise Kennedy

Unlikely Animals
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Annie Hartnett

Witches
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Brenda Lozano

Woman, Eating
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Claire Kohda

Young Mungo
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Douglas Stuart

The Younger Wife
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Sally Hepworth

Acts of Service
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Lillian Fishman

All the Lovers in the Night
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Mieko Kawakami

Bloomsbury Girls
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Natalie Jenner

Book of Night
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Holly Black

The Book Woman's Daughter
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Kim Michele Richardson

City on Fire
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Don Winslow

Hide
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Kiersten White

Kaikeyi
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Vaishnavi Patel

Marrying the Ketchups
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Jennifer Close

Metropolis
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B.A. Shapiro

Nettle & Bone
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T. Kingfisher

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
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Alison Espach

Poguemahone
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Patrick McCabe

Remarkably Bright Creatures
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Shelby Van Pelt

Saint Sebastian's Abyss
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Mark Haber

The Shore
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Katie Runde

Siren Queen
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Nghi Vo

Sleepwalk
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Dan Chaon

Something Wilder
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Christina Lauren

The Summer Place
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Jennifer Weiner

Trust
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Hernan Diaz

Two Nights in Lisbon
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Chris Pavone

When Women Were Dragons
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Kelly Barnhill

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
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Akwaeke Emezi

Cult Classic
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Sloane Crosley

The Foundling
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Ann Leary

Horse
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Geraldine Brooks

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting // The People on Platform 5
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Clare Pooley

It All Comes Down to This
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Therese Anne Fowler

Jackie & Me
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Louis Bayard

Juniper & Thorn
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Ava Reid

Lapvona
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Ottessa Moshfegh

The Latecomer
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Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Lies I Tell
(*)
Julie Clark

A Mirror Mended
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Alix E. Harrow

Nightcrawling
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Leila Mottley

Nora Goes Off Script
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Annabel Monaghan

Nuclear Family
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Joseph Han

One's Company
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Ashley Hutson

Ordinary Monsters
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J.M. Miro

Rainbow Rainbow
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Lydia Conklin

Three
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Valerie Perrin

Tracy Flick Can't Win
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Tom Perrotta

Woman of Light
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Yerba Buena
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Nina LaCour

American Royalty
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Tracey Livesay

The Angel of Rome
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Jess Walter

The Bodyguard
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Katherine Center

The Boys
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Katie Hafner

The Dead Romantics
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Ashley Poston

Elsewhere
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Alexis Schaitkin

Fellowship Point
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Alice Elliott Dark

Florida Woman
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Deb Rogers

The It Girl
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Ruth Ware

Just Like Home
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Sarah Gailey

The Kingdoms of Savannah
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George Dawes Green

Life Ceremony: Stories
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Sayaka Murata

Night of the Living Rez: Stories
(*)
Morgan Talty

Our Wives Under the Sea
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Julia Armfield

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
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Becky Chambers

Upgrade
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Blake Crouch

What Moves the Dead
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T. Kingfisher

The Work Wife
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Alison B. Hart

X
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Davey Davis

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
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R.F. Kuang

The Book Eaters
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Sunyi Dean

Bookish People
(*)
Susan Coll

Calling for a Blanket Dance
(*)
Oscar Hokeah

Dead-End Memories: Stories
(*)
Banana Yoshimoto

Delphi
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Clare Pollard

The Devil Takes You Home
(*)
Gabino Iglesias

Fox Creek
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William Kent Krueger

Husband Material
(*)
Alexis Hall

The Last Karankawas
(*)
Kimberly Garza

The Last to Vanish
(*)
Megan Miranda

The Last White Man
(*)
Mohsin Hamid

A Map for the Missing
(*)
Belinda Huijuan Tang

Mercury Pictures Presents
(*)
Anthony Marra

Properties of Thirst
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Marianne Wiggins

The Rabbit Hutch
(*)
Tess Gunty

Run Time
(*)
Catherine Ryan Howard

Shutter
(*)
Ramona Emerson

Stories from The Tenants Downstairs
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Sidik Fofana

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
(*)
Sangu Mandanna

The Wild Hunt
(*)
Emma Seckel

All The Broken Places
(*)
John Boyne

The American Roommate Experiment
(*)
Elena Armas

Bindle Punk Bruja
(*)
Desideria Mesa

Bliss Montage: Stories
(*)
Ling Ma

The Bullet That Missed
(*)
Richard Osman

Carrie Soto Is Back
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Darker
(*)
Alice Feeney

The Deceptions
(*)
Jill Bialosky

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
(*)
James Hannaham

The Fortunes of Jaded Women
(*)
Carolyn Huynh

Ghost Eaters
(*)
Clay McLeod Chapman

If I Survive You
(*)
Jonathan Escoffery

Ithaca
(*)
Claire North

The Kiss Curse
(*)
Erin Sterling

Less Is Lost
(*)
Andrew Sean Greer

The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
(*)
Ellen Marie Wiseman

Lucy by the Sea
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

The Marriage Portrait
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Maggie O'Farrell

A Merry Little Meet Cute
(*)
Julie Murphy; Sierra Simone

Nona the Ninth
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Tamsyn Muir

Other Birds
(*)
Sarah Addison Allen

People Person
(*)
Candice Carty-Williams

The Ski Jumpers
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Peter Geye

A Taste of Gold and Iron
(*)
Alexandra Rowland

Tell Me I'm An Artist
(*)
Chelsea Martin

The Two Lives of Sara
(*)
Catherine Adel West

Demon Copperhead
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Barbara Kingsolver

Dinosaurs
(*)
Lydia Millet

The Hero of This Book
(*)
Elizabeth McCracken

Hester
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Laurie Albanese

Lark Ascending
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Silas House

Leech
(*)
Hiron Ennes

Liberation Day: Stories
(*)
George Saunders

Mad Honey
(*)
Jodi Picoult; Jennifer Finney Boylan

Mistakes Were Made
(*)
Meryl Wilsner

Motherthing
(*)
Ainslie Hogarth

The Night Ship
(*)
Jess Kidd

Partners in Crime
(*)
Alisha Rai

Signal Fires
(*)
Dani Shapiro

Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
(*)
Laura Warrell

We Spread
(*)
Iain Reid

The Whalebone Theatre
(*)
Joanna Quinn

Which Side Are You On
(*)
Ryan Lee Wong

The Winners
(*)
Fredrik Backman

And Yet
(*)
Kate Baer

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail
(*)
Ashley Herring Blake

The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
(*)
Shauna Robinson

The Cloisters
(*)
Katy Hays

Even Though I Knew the End
(*)
C.L. Polk

Flight
(*)
Lynn Steger Strong

Gilded Mountain
(*)
Kate Manning

Heart of the Sun Warrior
(*)
Sue Lynn Tan

The Islands: Stories
(*)
Dionne Irving

The Lindbergh Nanny
(*)
Mariah Fredericks

Meredith, Alone
(*)
Claire Alexander

Now Is Not the Time to Panic
(*)
Kevin Wilson

The Passenger
(*)
Cormac McCarthy

A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings
(*)
Will Betke-Brunswick

A Restless Truth
(*)
Freya Marske

Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
(*)
Lisa Unger

Ship Wrecked
(*)
Olivia Dade

They're Going to Love You
(*)
Meg Howrey

Tread of Angels
(*)
Rebecca Roanhorse

We All Want Impossible Things
(*)
Catherine Newman

White Horse
(*)
Erika T. Wurth

A Dangerous Business
(*)
Jane Smiley

A Quiet Life
(*)
Ethan Joella

Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology
(*)
Osa Atoe

Stella Maris
(*)
Cormac McCarthy

Things We Found When the Water Went Down
(*)
Tegan Nia Swanson

Well Traveled
(*)
Jen DeLuca

Winterland
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Rae Meadows

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