2024 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

#1 Pick

The Fury
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Alex Michaelides

Bride
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

James
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Percival Everett

The Night We Lost Him
(*)
Laura Dave

Wandering Stars
(*)
Tommy Orange

The Ministry of Time
(*)
Kaliane Bradley

Fire Exit
(*)
Morgan Talty

The God of the Woods
(*)
Liz Moore

The Wedding People
(*)
Alison Espach

Creation Lake
(*)
Rachel Kushner

Monthly Pick

Love Novel
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Ivana Sajko

Nonfiction
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Julie Myerson

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
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Janice Hallett

Red Clay Suzie
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Jeffrey Dale Lofton

Service
(*)
Sarah Gilmartin

Anna O
(*)
Matthew Blake

The Bullet Swallower
(*)
Elizabeth Gonzalez James

The Busy Body
(*)
Kemper Donovan

The Curse of Pietro Houdini
(*)
Derek B. Miller

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
(*)
Shubnum Khan

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend
(*)
Emma R. Alban

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
(*)
Heather Fawcett

Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect
(*)
Benjamin Stevenson

Familia
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Lauren E. Rico

Family Family
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Laurie Frankel

The Fetishist
(*)
Katherine Min

First Lie Wins
(*)
Ashley Elston

The Heiress
(*)
Rachel Hawkins

Holiday Country
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Inci Atrek

Martyr!
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Kaveh Akbar

Midnight Ruin
(*)
Katee Robert

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
(*)
Seanan McGuire

My Friends
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Hisham Matar

Poor Deer
(*)
Claire Oshetsky

Rabbit Hole
(*)
Kate Brody

The Storm We Made
(*)
Vanessa Chan

Sugar, Baby
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Celine Saintclare

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
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Kimberly Lemming

This Wretched Valley
(*)
Jenny Kiefer

True North
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Andrew J. Graff

The Tusks of Extinction
(*)
Ray Nayler

Where You End
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Abbott Kahler

You Only Call When You're in Trouble
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Stephen McCauley

The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
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C.L. Miller

The Book of Doors
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Gareth Brown

The Book of Love
(*)
Kelly Link

The City of Stardust
(*)
Georgia Summers

Come and Get It
(*)
Kiley Reid

The Fox Wife
(*)
Yangsze Choo

Fury
(*)
Clyo Mendoza

Hard by a Great Forest
(*)
Leo Vardiashvili

The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson
(*)
Ellen Baker

I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both
(*)
Mariah Stovall

Mercury
(*)
Amy Jo Burns

The Still Point
(*)
Tammy Greenwood

Sun of Blood and Ruin
(*)
Mariely Lares

The Tainted Cup
(*)
Robert Jackson Bennett

The Warm Hands of Ghosts
(*)
Katherine Arden

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
(*)
Hwang Bo-reum

What Feasts at Night
(*)
T. Kingfisher

A Wild and Heavenly Place
(*)
Robin Oliveira

The Women
(*)
Kristin Hannah

Your Absence is Darkness
(*)
Jon Kalman Stefansson

After Annie
(*)
Anna Quindlen

Anita de Monte Laughs Last
(*)
Xochitl Gonzalez

Annie Bot
(*)
Sierra Greer

Bye, Baby
(*)
Carola Lovering

Expiration Dates
(*)
Rebecca Serle

The Extinction of Irena Rey
(*)
Jennifer Croft

A Fate Inked in Blood
(*)
Danielle L. Jensen

Fruit of the Dead
(*)
Rachel Lyon

The Great Divide
(*)
Cristina Henriquez

Green Dot
(*)
Madeleine Gray

Grief Is for People
(*)
Sloane Crosley

Headshot
(*)
Rita Bullwinkel

The Hearing Test
(*)
Eliza Barry Callahan

The Hunter
(*)
Tana French

Listen for the Lie
(*)
Amy Tintera

Memory Piece
(*)
Lisa Ko

Only If You're Lucky
(*)
Stacy Willingham

The Other Valley
(*)
Scott Alexander Howard

Piglet
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Lottie Hazell

Rainbow Black
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Maggie Thrash

The Tree Doctor
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Marie Mutsuki Mockett

The Woods All Black
(*)
Lee Mandelo

The Cemetery of Untold Stories
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Julia Alvarez

Clear
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Carys Davies

Darling Girls
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Sally Hepworth

The Emperor and the Endless Palace
(*)
Justinian Huang

The Familiar
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Leigh Bardugo

Funny Story
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Emily Henry

A Good Happy Girl
(*)
Marissa Higgins

The Husbands
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Holly Gramazio

I Cheerfully Refuse
(*)
Leif Enger

Just for the Summer
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Abby Jimenez

A Letter to the Luminous Deep
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Sylvie Cathrall

Like Happiness
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Ursula Villarreal-Moura

Ocean's Godori
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Elaine U. Cho

The Paris Novel
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Ruth Reichl

The Prospects
(*)
K.T. Hoffman

A Short Walk Through a Wide World
(*)
Douglas Westerbeke

Table for Two
(*)
Amor Towles

Women! In! Peril!
(*)
Jessie Ren Marshall

Worry
(*)
Alexandra Tanner

Zan
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Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh

888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
(*)
Abraham Chang

All Fours
(*)
Miranda July

All the Colors of the Dark
(*)
Chris Whitaker

Colton Gentry's Third Act
(*)
Jeff Zentner

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
(*)
Catherine Mack

Exhibit
(*)
R.O. Kwon

The Guncle Abroad
(*)
Steven Rowley

How To Read a Book
(*)
Monica Wood

I Hope This Finds You Well
(*)
Natalie Sue

The Last Murder at the End of the World
(*)
Stuart Turton

Loneliness & Company
(*)
Charlee Dyroff

Long Island
(*)
Colm Toibin

A Magical Girl Retires
(*)
Park Seolyeon

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
(*)
Janet Skeslien Charles

One Perfect Couple
(*)
Ruth Ware

The Paradise Problem
(*)
Christina Lauren

Real Americans
(*)
Rachel Khong

Sipsworth
(*)
Simon Van Booy

Summers at the Saint
(*)
Mary Kay Andrews

Swiped
(*)
L.M. Chilton

Whale Fall
(*)
Elizabeth O'Connor

When Among Crows
(*)
Veronica Roth

Woodworm
(*)
Layla Martinez

The Z Word
(*)
Lindsay King-Miller

Bright and Tender Dark
(*)
Joanna Pearson

Devil Is Fine
(*)
John Vercher

The Fireborne Blade
(*)
Charlotte Bond

A Good Life
(*)
Virginie Grimaldi

Honey
(*)
Isabel Banta

Horror Movie
(*)
Paul Tremblay

Just Some Stupid Love Story
(*)
Katelyn Doyle

Margo's Got Money Troubles
(*)
Rufi Thorpe

Middletide
(*)
Sarah Crouch

Not in Love
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

One of Our Kind
(*)
Nicola Yoon

The Rom-Commers
(*)
Katherine Center

The Safekeep
(*)
Yael van der Wouden

Same As It Ever Was
(*)
Claire Lombardo

Sandwich
(*)
Catherine Newman

Soldier Sailor
(*)
Claire Kilroy

Summer Romance
(*)
Annabel Monaghan

Swift River
(*)
Essie Chambers

Tehrangeles
(*)
Porochista Khakpour

Triple Sec
(*)
T.J. Alexander

The Wives
(*)
Simone Gorrindo

The Anthropologists
(*)
Aysegul Savas

The Au Pair Affair
(*)
Tessa Bailey

Banal Nightmare
(*)
Halle Butler

Bear
(*)
Julia Phillips

The Bright Sword
(*)
Lev Grossman

Bury Your Gays
(*)
Chuck Tingle

Catalina
(*)
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Charlotte Illes Is Not a Teacher
(*)
Katie Siegel

The Coin
(*)
Yasmin Zaher

The Dallergut Dream Department Store
(*)
Miye Lee

The Ex Vows
(*)
Jessica Joyce

The Heart in Winter
(*)
Kevin Barry

I Was A Teenage Slasher
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

The Lion Women of Tehran
(*)
Marjan Kamali

The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
(*)
Juliet Grames

The Lost Story
(*)
Meg Shaffer

Masquerade
(*)
O.O. Sangoyomi

Midnight Rooms
(*)
Donyae Coles

Nicked
(*)
M.T. Anderson

The Night Ends with Fire
(*)
K.X. Song

Not Another Love Song
(*)
Julie Soto

The Same Bright Stars
(*)
Ethan Joella

Smothermoss
(*)
Alisa Alering

The Spellshop
(*)
Sarah Beth Durst

State of Paradise
(*)
Laura Van Den Berg

Burn
(*)
Peter Heller

By Any Other Name
(*)
Jodi Picoult

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
(*)
P. Djeli Clark

Five-Star Stranger
(*)
Kat Tang

The Horse
(*)
Willy Vlautin

Hum
(*)
Helen Phillips

The Instrumentalist
(*)
Harriet Constable

Lady Macbeth
(*)
Ava Reid

Mystery Lights: Stories
(*)
Lena Valencia

The Pairing
(*)
Casey McQuiston

Pearl
(*)
Sian Hughes

Slow Dance
(*)
Rainbow Rowell

A Sorceress Comes to Call
(*)
T. Kingfisher

Spirit Crossing
(*)
William Kent Krueger

There Are Rivers in the Sky
(*)
Elif Shafak

The Truth According to Ember
(*)
Danica Nava

The Unmothers
(*)
Leslie J. Anderson

Blue Sisters
(*)
Coco Mellors

The Book Swap
(*)
Tessa Bickers

Colored Television
(*)
Danzy Senna

A Dark and Drowning Tide
(*)
Allison Saft

The Empusium
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

Entitlement
(*)
Rumaan Alam

The Examiner
(*)
Janice Hallett

Graveyard Shift
(*)
M.L. Rio

I'll Have What He's Having
(*)
Adib Khorram

Intermezzo
(*)
Sally Rooney

The Life Impossible
(*)
Matt Haig

Madwoman
(*)
Chelsea Bieker

The Night Guest
(*)
Hildur Knutsdottir

Playground
(*)
Richard Powers

Somewhere Beyond the Sea
(*)
T.J. Klune

A Sunny Place for Shady People
(*)
Mariana Enriquez

Tell Me Everything
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

Under the Eye of the Big Bird
(*)
Hiromi Kawakami

Where the Forest Meets the River
(*)
Shannon Bowring

The Wildes
(*)
Louis Bayard

William
(*)
Mason Coile

American Rapture
(*)
C.J. Leede

The Ancients
(*)
John Larison

The Bog Wife
(*)
Kay Chronister

Bull Moon Rising
(*)
Ruby Dixon

The Crescent Moon Tearoom
(*)
Stacy Sivinski

The Last One at the Wedding
(*)
Jason Rekulak

The Mighty Red
(*)
Louise Erdrich

Season of the Swamp
(*)
Yuri Herrera

The Sequel
(*)
Jean Hanff Korelitz

A Song to Drown Rivers
(*)
Ann Liang

Sorcery and Small Magics
(*)
Maiga Doocy

The Stone Witch of Florence
(*)
Anna Rasche

Swordcrossed
(*)
Freya Marske

A Happier Life
(*)
Kristy Woodson Harvey

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