2025 Indie Next (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

#1 Pick

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
(*)
Grady Hendrix

Victorian Psycho
(*)
Virginia Feito

Monthly Pick

The Bones Beneath My Skin
(*)
T.J. Klune

What Happened to the McCrays?
(*)
Tracey Lange

Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
(*)
Marianne Cronin

North Is the Night
(*)
Emily Rath

All the Water in the World
(*)
Eiren Caffall

Beautiful Ugly
(*)
Alice Feeney

The Business Trip
(*)
Jessie Garcia

Death in the Downline
(*)
Maria Abrams

The Favorites
(*)
Layne Fargo

Good Girl
(*)
Aria Aber

The Heart of Winter
(*)
Jonathan Evison

I'll Come to You
(*)
Rebecca Kauffman

The Lost House
(*)
Melissa Larsen

The Lotus Shoes
(*)
Jane Yang

More or Less Maddy
(*)
Lisa Genova

Mothers and Sons
(*)
Adam Haslett

The Naming of the Birds
(*)
Paraic O'Donnell

The Note
(*)
Alafair Burke

Out of the Woods
(*)
Hannah Bonam-Young

The Perfect Home
(*)
Daniel Kenitz

Playworld
(*)
Adam Ross

Rosarita
(*)
Anita Desai

Sweet Fury
(*)
Sash Bischoff

The Three Lives of Cate Kay
(*)
Kate Fagan

Water Moon
(*)
Samantha Sotto Yambao

Beartooth
(*)
Callan Wink

Black Woods, Blue Sky
(*)
Eowyn Ivey

Blob: A Love Story
(*)
Maggie Su

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
(*)
Heather Fawcett

First-Time Caller
(*)
B.K. Borison

A Forty-Year Kiss
(*)
Nickolas Butler

Idle Grounds
(*)
Krystelle Bamford

Isola
(*)
Allegra Goodman

The Lamb
(*)
Lucy Rose

Last Twilight in Paris
(*)
Pam Jenoff

Memorial Days
(*)
Geraldine Brooks

Mutual Interest
(*)
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

The Queens of Crime
(*)
Marie Benedict

Tartufo
(*)
Kira Jane Buxton

This Is a Love Story
(*)
Jessica Soffer

Three Days in June
(*)
Anne Tyler

Too Soon
(*)
Betty Shamieh

Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories
(*)
Amanda Peters

We Could Be Rats
(*)
Emily Austin

Penitence
(*)
Kristin Koval

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