Indie Next - Monthly Pick (Awarded by American Booksellers Association)

Awards List

2024

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
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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
(*)
Lauren E. Rico

Family Family
(*)
Laurie Frankel

The Fetishist
(*)
Katherine Min

First Lie Wins
(*)
Ashley Elston

The Heiress
(*)
Rachel Hawkins

Holiday Country
(*)
Inci Atrek

Martyr!
(*)
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
(*)
Celine Saintclare

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
(*)
Kimberly Lemming

This Wretched Valley
(*)
Jenny Kiefer

True North
(*)
Andrew J. Graff

The Tusks of Extinction
(*)
Ray Nayler

Where You End
(*)
Abbott Kahler

You Only Call When You're in Trouble
(*)
Stephen McCauley

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

The Book of Doors
(*)
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
(*)
Lottie Hazell

Rainbow Black
(*)
Maggie Thrash

The Tree Doctor
(*)
Marie Mutsuki Mockett

The Woods All Black
(*)
Lee Mandelo

The Cemetery of Untold Stories
(*)
Julia Alvarez

Clear
(*)
Carys Davies

Darling Girls
(*)
Sally Hepworth

The Emperor and the Endless Palace
(*)
Justinian Huang

The Familiar
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

Funny Story
(*)
Emily Henry

A Good Happy Girl
(*)
Marissa Higgins

The Husbands
(*)
Holly Gramazio

I Cheerfully Refuse
(*)
Leif Enger

Just for the Summer
(*)
Abby Jimenez

A Letter to the Luminous Deep
(*)
Sylvie Cathrall

Like Happiness
(*)
Ursula Villarreal-Moura

Ocean's Godori
(*)
Elaine U. Cho

The Paris Novel
(*)
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
(*)
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

2023

Amazing Grace Adams
(*)
Fran Littlewood

The Happy Couple
(*)
Naoise Dolan

Pandora
(*)
Susan Stokes-Chapman

Hourglass
(*)
Keiran Goddard

Better the Blood
(*)
Michael Bennett

Looking For Jane
(*)
Heather Marshall

All the Dangerous Things
(*)
Stacy Willingham

Bad Cree
(*)
Jessica Johns

The Bandit Queens
(*)
Parini Shroff

The Blackhouse
(*)
Carole Johnstone

Blaze Me a Sun
(*)
Christoffer Carlsson

The Chinese Groove
(*)
Kathryn Ma

City Under One Roof
(*)
Iris Yamashita

The Covenant of Water
(*)
Abraham Verghese

Decent People
(*)
De'Shawn Charles Winslow

The Deluge
(*)
Stephen Markley

The Dream Builders
(*)
Oindrila Mukherjee

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
(*)
Heather Fawcett

Everybody Knows
(*)
Jordan Harper

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
(*)
Benjamin Stevenson

Georgie, All Along
(*)
Kate Clayborn

Godkiller
(*)
Hannah Kaner

The Guest Lecture
(*)
Martin Riker

Hell Bent
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
(*)
Marisa Crane

In the Time of Our History
(*)
Susanne Pari

Lost in the Moment and Found
(*)
Seanan McGuire

The Mitford Affair
(*)
Marie Benedict

Moonrise Over New Jessup
(*)
Jamila Minnicks

Ms. Demeanor
(*)
Elinor Lipman

The New Life
(*)
Tom Crewe

The Night Travelers
(*)
Armando Lucas Correa

The Other Half
(*)
Charlotte Vassell

Really Good, Actually
(*)
Monica Heisey

Reef Road
(*)
Deborah Goodrich Royce

The Reunion
(*)
Kayla Olson

Sam
(*)
Allegra Goodman

The Survivalists
(*)
Kashana Cauley

The Villa
(*)
Rachel Hawkins

Wildfire
(*)
Hannah Grace

The Applicant
(*)
Nazli Koca

Big Swiss
(*)
Jen Beagin

Brutes
(*)
Dizz Tate

Don't Fear the Reaper
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

Eastbound
(*)
Maylis De Kerangal

Exiles
(*)
Jane Harper

Go as a River
(*)
Shelley Read

The House of Eve
(*)
Sadeqa Johnson

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
(*)
Roshani Chokshi

Maame
(*)
Jessica George

Murder Your Employer
(*)
Rupert Holmes

My Last Innocent Year
(*)
Daisy Alpert Florin

Our Share of Night
(*)
Mariana Enriquez

Radiant Sin
(*)
Katee Robert

Scorched Grace
(*)
Margot Douaihy

Secretly Yours
(*)
Tessa Bailey

Stone Blind
(*)
Natalie Haynes

Users
(*)
Colin Winnette

The Writing Retreat
(*)
Julia Bartz

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
(*)
S.A. Chakraborty

American Mermaid
(*)
Julia Langbein

The Angel Maker
(*)
Alex North

Beyond That, the Sea
(*)
Laura Spence-Ash

The Crane Husband
(*)
Kelly Barnhill

A Day of Fallen Night
(*)
Samantha Shannon

The Dig
(*)
Anne Burt

Dust Child
(*)
Nguyen Phan Que Mai

The Farewell Tour
(*)
Stephanie Clifford

Flux
(*)
Jinwoo Chong

The Foxglove King
(*)
Hannah Whitten

The God of Endings
(*)
Jacqueline Holland

The Golden Spoon
(*)
Jessa Maxwell

The Gospel of Orla
(*)
Eoghan Walls

Hello Beautiful
(*)
Ann Napolitano

The London Seance Society
(*)
Sarah Penner

Pineapple Street
(*)
Jenny Jackson

Time's Undoing
(*)
Cheryl A. Head

Wandering Souls
(*)
Cecile Pin

Weyward
(*)
Emilia Hart

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
(*)
Claire Jimenez

Blue Hour
(*)
Tiffany Clarke Harrison

Community Board
(*)
Tara Conklin

The Fiancee Farce
(*)
Alexandria Bellefleur

The Great Reclamation
(*)
Rachel Heng

Hang the Moon
(*)
Jeannette Walls

Homecoming
(*)
Kate Morton

The House Is on Fire
(*)
Rachel Beanland

House of Cotton
(*)
Monica Brashears

A House With Good Bones
(*)
T. Kingfisher

If We're Being Honest
(*)
Cat Shook

Lone Women
(*)
Victor Lavalle

The Only Survivors
(*)
Megan Miranda

Ozark Dogs
(*)
Eli Cranor

Romantic Comedy
(*)
Curtis Sittenfeld

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
(*)
J. Ryan Stradal

Some Desperate Glory
(*)
Emily Tesh

The Soulmate
(*)
Sally Hepworth

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
(*)
David Grann

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
(*)
Kelly Link

With My Little Eye
(*)
Joshilyn Jackson

You Could Make This Place Beautiful
(*)
Maggie Smith

Chain-Gang All-Stars
(*)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Clytemnestra
(*)
Costanza Casati

The East Indian
(*)
Brinda Charry

The Ferryman
(*)
Justin Cronin

The Guest
(*)
Emma Cline

The Half Moon
(*)
Mary Beth Keane

In the Lives of Puppets
(*)
T.J. Klune

The Late Americans
(*)
Brandon Taylor

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
(*)
Debra Magpie Earling

Mastering the Art of French Murder
(*)
Colleen Cambridge

Meet Me at the Lake
(*)
Carley Fortune

The Night Flowers
(*)
Sara Herchenroether

No Two Persons
(*)
Erica Bauermeister

The Postcard
(*)
Anne Berest

The Salt Grows Heavy
(*)
Cassandra Khaw

The Secret Book of Flora Lea
(*)
Patti Callahan Henry

Small Mercies
(*)
Dennis Lehane

To Shape a Dragon's Breath
(*)
Moniquill Blackgoose

The True Love Experiment
(*)
Christina Lauren

You Are Here
(*)
Karin Lin-Greenberg

All the Sinners Bleed
(*)
S.A. Cosby

The Celebrants
(*)
Steven Rowley

Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective
(*)
Katie Siegel

Chef's Choice
(*)
T.J. Alexander

Crow Mary
(*)
Kathleen Grissom

Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
(*)
Rita Chang-Eppig

Drowning
(*)
T.J. Newman

Everything's Fine
(*)
Cecilia Rabess

Good Night, Irene
(*)
Luis Alberto Urrea

Ink Blood Sister Scribe
(*)
Emma Torzs

Killingly
(*)
Katharine Beutner

Lady Tan's Circle of Women
(*)
Lisa See

Love, Theoretically
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

Lucky Red
(*)
Claudia Cravens

Maeve Fly
(*)
C.J. Leede

The Memory of Animals
(*)
Claire Fuller

Mrs. S
(*)
K. Patrick

My Murder
(*)
Katie Williams

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories
(*)
Agustina Bazterrica

Psyche and Eros
(*)
Luna McNamara

The Puzzle Master
(*)
Danielle Trussoni

The Quiet Tenant
(*)
Clemence Michallon

The Road to Dalton
(*)
Shannon Bowring

Witch King
(*)
Martha Wells

Zero Days
(*)
Ruth Ware

All-Night Pharmacy
(*)
Ruth Madievsky

The Apartment
(*)
Ana Menendez

Banyan Moon
(*)
Thao Thai

Business or Pleasure
(*)
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Camp Damascus
(*)
Chuck Tingle

Crook Manifesto
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
(*)
Satoshi Yagisawa

Do Tell
(*)
Lindsay Lynch

The Forest Brims Over
(*)
Maru Ayase

Forget Me Not
(*)
Julie Soto

Hello Stranger
(*)
Katherine Center

The Housekeepers
(*)
Alex Hay

Immortal Longings
(*)
Chloe Gong

Kala
(*)
Colin Walsh

The Librarianist
(*)
Patrick deWitt

Little Monsters
(*)
Adrienne Brodeur

The Militia House
(*)
John Milas

The Rachel Incident
(*)
Caroline O'Donoghue

Ripe
(*)
Sarah Rose Etter

The Seven Year Slip
(*)
Ashley Poston

Silver Nitrate
(*)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Summer of Songbirds
(*)
Kristy Woodson Harvey

The Woman in the Castello
(*)
Kelsey James

The Blonde Identity
(*)
Ally Carter

The Connellys of County Down
(*)
Tracey Lange

Cruel Seduction
(*)
Katee Robert

Family Lore
(*)
Elizabeth Acevedo

The Free People's Village
(*)
Sim Kern

The Great Transition
(*)
Nick Fuller Googins

He Who Drowned the World
(*)
Shelley Parker-Chan

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
(*)
James McBride

In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel
(*)
Genevieve Plunkett

The Invisible Hour
(*)
Alice Hoffman

Knockout
(*)
Sarah MacLean

The Last Ranger
(*)
Peter Heller

Looking Glass Sound
(*)
Catriona Ward

Mister Magic
(*)
Kiersten White

My Roommate Is a Vampire
(*)
Jenna Levine

None of This Is True
(*)
Lisa Jewell

Plot Twist
(*)
Erin La Rosa

Terrace Story
(*)
Hilary Leichter

Thornhedge
(*)
T. Kingfisher

Time's Mouth
(*)
Edan Lepucki

Tom Lake
(*)
Ann Patchett

Whalefall
(*)
Daniel Kraus

The Breakaway
(*)
Jennifer Weiner

Chenneville
(*)
Paulette Jiles

Cleat Cute
(*)
Meryl Wilsner

Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare: Stories
(*)
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Fall of Ruin and Wrath
(*)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Fraud
(*)
Zadie Smith

Happiness Falls
(*)
Angie Kim

The Heart of It All
(*)
Christian Kiefer

Landscapes
(*)
Christine Lai

Mother-Daughter Murder Night
(*)
Nina Simon

North Woods
(*)
Daniel Mason

The River We Remember
(*)
William Kent Krueger

Rouge
(*)
Mona Awad

The Secret Hours
(*)
Mick Herron

The September House
(*)
Carissa Orlando

The Square of Sevens
(*)
Laura Shepherd-Robinson

Starter Villain
(*)
John Scalzi

Wellness
(*)
Nathan Hill

What Kind of Mother
(*)
Clay McLeod Chapman

America Fantastica
(*)
Tim O'Brien

Bright Lights, Big Christmas
(*)
Mary Kay Andrews

Bright Young Women
(*)
Jessica Knoll

Company: Stories
(*)
Shannon Sanders

Family Meal
(*)
Bryan Washington

The Fragile Threads of Power
(*)
V.E. Schwab

The Hive and the Honey: Stories
(*)
Paul Yoon

A Holly Jolly Ever After
(*)
Julie Murphy; Sierra Simone

The House of Doors
(*)
Tan Twan Eng

The Hurricane Wars
(*)
Thea Guanzon

I Must Be Dreaming
(*)
Roz Chast

Land of Milk and Honey
(*)
C. Pam Zhang

The MANIAC
(*)
Benjamin Labatut

One Woman Show
(*)
Christine Coulson

Our Strangers: Stories
(*)
Lydia Davis

The Premonition
(*)
Banana Yoshimoto

The Reformatory
(*)
Tananarive Due

Starling House
(*)
Alix E. Harrow

Straw Dogs of the Universe
(*)
Ye Chun

Sword Catcher
(*)
Cassandra Clare

West Heart Kill
(*)
Dann McDorman

The Berry Pickers
(*)
Amanda Peters

Bookshops & Bonedust
(*)
Travis Baldree

Calamity
(*)
Constance Fay

Day
(*)
Michael Cunningham

The Future
(*)
Naomi Alderman

Inheritance
(*)
Nora Roberts

Iris Kelly Doesn't Date
(*)
Ashley Herring Blake

The Madstone
(*)
Elizabeth Crook

Other Minds and Other Stories
(*)
Bennett Sims

A Power Unbound
(*)
Freya Marske

Same Bed Different Dreams
(*)
Ed Park

So Late in the Day
(*)
Claire Keegan

System Collapse
(*)
Martha Wells

The Vulnerables
(*)
Sigrid Nunez

Wings of Red
(*)
James W. Jennings

Alice Sadie Celine
(*)
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories
(*)
Louise Kennedy

The Fake Mate
(*)
Lana Ferguson

The Fiction Writer
(*)
Jillian Cantor

The Frozen River
(*)
Ariel Lawhon

The Last Love Note
(*)
Emma Grey

The Liberators
(*)
E.J. Koh

Meet the Benedettos
(*)
Katie Cotugno

Mercy
(*)
Sara Cate

The Other Mothers
(*)
Katherine Faulkner

Raiders of the Lost Heart
(*)
Jo Segura

Ruined
(*)
Sarah Vaughn

Second Chances in New Port Stephen
(*)
T.J. Alexander

Welcome Home, Stranger
(*)
Kate Christensen

The Wildest Sun
(*)
Asha Lemmie

Yours for the Taking
(*)
Gabrielle Korn

2022

Go Back at Once
(*)
Robert Aickman

Foster
(*)
Claire Keegan

Shady Hollow
(*)
Juneau Black

The Mermaid of Black Conch
(*)
Monique Roffey

The Employees
(*)
Olga Ravn

How to Survive Everything
(*)
Ewan Morrison

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

The Secret to Superhuman Strength
(*)
Alison Bechdel

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