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Independent booksellers across the U.S. nominate their favorite forthcoming titles each month; the resulting Indie Next List has highlighted breakout books since 2008.

Indie Next List — December 2021 (2021)

Source: www.indiebound.org

Dava Shastri's Last Day

Kirthana Ramisetti · Buy on Amazon

Wish You Were Here: A Novel

Jodi Picoult · Buy on Amazon

The Postmistress of Paris: A Novel

Meg Waite Clayton · Buy on Amazon

Beasts of a Little Land: A Novel

Juhea Kim · Buy on Amazon

These Precious Days: Essays

Ann Patchett · Buy on Amazon

Chouette

Claire Oshetsky · Buy on Amazon

The Ballerinas: A Novel

Rachel Kapelke-Dale · Buy on Amazon

A History of Wild Places: A Novel

Shea Ernshaw · Buy on Amazon

Termination Shock: A Novel

Neal Stephenson · Buy on Amazon

The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters

Dr. Rachel Trethewey · Buy on Amazon

Murder Under Her Skin: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery

Stephen Spotswood · Buy on Amazon

Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

Faith Jones · Buy on Amazon

Elder Race

Adrian Tchaikovsky · Buy on Amazon

True Crime Story

Joseph Knox · Buy on Amazon

Bright Burning Things: A Novel

Lisa Harding · Buy on Amazon

Sea State: A Memoir

Tabitha Lasley · Buy on Amazon

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs: A Novel

Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson · Buy on Amazon

The Teller of Secrets: A Novel

Bisi Adjapon · Buy on Amazon

A Different Distance: A Renga

Marilyn Hacker, Karthika Naïr · Buy on Amazon

A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece

Peter Fiennes · Buy on Amazon

Where You Come From

Sasa Stanisic, Damion Searls · Buy on Amazon

Indie Next List — December 2022 (2022)

Source: www.indiebound.org

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail

Ashley Herring Blake · Buy on Amazon

Ship Wrecked: A Novel

Olivia Dade · Buy on Amazon

Tread of Angels

Rebecca Roanhorse · Buy on Amazon

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler · Buy on Amazon

Stella Maris

Cormac McCarthy · Buy on Amazon

Well Traveled

Jen DeLuca · Buy on Amazon

The Lindbergh Nanny: A Novel

Mariah Fredericks · Buy on Amazon

A Dangerous Business: A novel

Jane Smiley · Buy on Amazon

A Quiet Life: A Novel

Ethan Joella · Buy on Amazon

Winterland: A Novel

Rae Meadows · Buy on Amazon

They're Going to Love You: A Novel

Meg Howrey · Buy on Amazon

My Darkest Prayer: A Novel

S. A. Cosby · Buy on Amazon

All the Broken Places: A Novel

John Boyne · Buy on Amazon

Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

Evette Dionne · Buy on Amazon

Things We Found When the Water Went Down

Tegan Nia Swanson · Buy on Amazon

A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings

Will Betke-Brunswick · Buy on Amazon

How to Survive Everything: A Novel

Ewan Morrison · Buy on Amazon

Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology

Osa Atoe · Buy on Amazon

Grocery Shopping with My Mother

Kevin Powell · Buy on Amazon

Indie Next List — December 2023 (2023)

Source: www.indiebound.org

Second Chances in New Port Stephen: A Novel

TJ Alexander · Buy on Amazon

The Other Mothers

Katherine Faulkner · Buy on Amazon

The Fake Mate

Lana Ferguson · Buy on Amazon

The Frozen River: A Novel

Ariel Lawhon · Buy on Amazon

Raiders of the Lost Heart

Jo Segura · Buy on Amazon

The Last Love Note

Emma Grey · Buy on Amazon

Other Minds and Other Stories

Bennett Sims · Buy on Amazon

Yours for the Taking: A Novel

Gabrielle Korn · Buy on Amazon

A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

Katherine Howe · Buy on Amazon

Welcome Home, Stranger: A Novel

Kate Christensen · Buy on Amazon

The Other Half

Charlotte Vassell · Buy on Amazon

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories

Louise Kennedy · Buy on Amazon

Inheritance: The Lost Bride Trilogy, Book 1

Nora Roberts · Buy on Amazon

Ruined

Sarah Vaughn, Sarah Winifred Searle, Niki Smith · Buy on Amazon

Wings of Red

James W. Jennings · Buy on Amazon

The Fiction Writer

Jillian Cantor · Buy on Amazon

The Wildest Sun: A Novel

Asha Lemmie · Buy on Amazon

Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

Shahnaz Habib · Buy on Amazon

Meet the Benedettos: A Novel

Katie Cotugno · Buy on Amazon

Indie Next List — December 2024 (2024)

Source: www.indiebound.org

Private Rites: A Novel

Julia Armfield · Buy on Amazon

Rental House: A Novel

Weike Wang · Buy on Amazon

CABIN: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman

Patrick Hutchison · Buy on Amazon

Time of the Child

Niall Williams · Buy on Amazon

Brightly Shining

Ingvild Rishøi, Caroline Waight · Buy on Amazon

The Collaborators

Michael Idov · Buy on Amazon

Woo Woo: A Novel

Ella Baxter · Buy on Amazon

The Serpent and the Wolf

Rebecca Robinson · Buy on Amazon

Sister Snake: A Novel

Amanda Lee Koe · Buy on Amazon

The Champagne Letters: A Novel

Kate MacIntosh · Buy on Amazon

Only Here, Only Now: A Novel

Tom Newlands · Buy on Amazon

Under Loch and Key

Lana Ferguson · Buy on Amazon

Not in My Book: A Novel

Katie Holt · Buy on Amazon

On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)

Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland · Buy on Amazon

I Might Be in Trouble

Daniel Aleman · Buy on Amazon

Shy Creatures: A Novel

Clare Chambers · Buy on Amazon

Booked for Murder: An Old Juniper Bookshop Mystery

P. J. Nelson · Buy on Amazon

American Bulk: Essays on Excess

Emily Mester · Buy on Amazon

Sundown in San Ojuela

M. M. Olivas · Buy on Amazon

I Made It Out of Clay

Beth Kander · Buy on Amazon

Havoc: A Novel

Christopher Bollen · Buy on Amazon

Indie Next List — December 2025 (2025)

Source: www.indiebound.org

Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore

Emily Krempholtz · Buy on Amazon

I, Medusa: A Novel

Ayana Gray · Buy on Amazon

Canticle

Janet Rich Edwards · Buy on Amazon

The Bookshop Below

Georgia Summers · Buy on Amazon

The Mating Game

Lana Ferguson · Buy on Amazon

The Book of Luke: A Novel

Lovell Holder · Buy on Amazon

The Merge: A Novel

Grace Walker · Buy on Amazon

59 Minutes: A Novel

Holly Seddon · Buy on Amazon

Television: A Novel

Lauren Rothery · Buy on Amazon

Everyone in the Group Chat Dies: A Novel

L.M. Chilton · Buy on Amazon

As Many Souls as Stars: A Novel

Natasha Siegel · Buy on Amazon

Tailored Realities

Brandon Sanderson · Buy on Amazon

Lucky Seed

Justinian Huang · Buy on Amazon

The Sofa

Sam Munson · Buy on Amazon

Supersaurio

Meryem El Mehdati · Buy on Amazon

The Curse of the Cole Women: A Novel

Marielle Thompson · Buy on Amazon

Winter Stories

Ingvild Rishøi, Diane Oatley · Buy on Amazon

Casanova 20: Or, Hot World

Davey Davis · Buy on Amazon

Indie Next List — December 2018 (2018)

Source: www.indiebound.org

Once Upon a River: A Novel

Diane Setterfield · Buy on Amazon

A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts

Therese Anne Fowler · Buy on Amazon

The Dakota Winters: A Novel

Tom Barbash · Buy on Amazon

Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny · Buy on Amazon

The Adults: A Novel

Caroline Hulse · Buy on Amazon

Vita Nostra: A Novel

Sergey and Marina Dyachenko · Buy on Amazon

Night of Miracles: A Novel

Elizabeth Berg · Buy on Amazon

Radiant Shimmering Light

Sarah Selecky · Buy on Amazon

The Museum of Modern Love

Heather Rose · Buy on Amazon

Insomnia

Marina Benjamin · Buy on Amazon

Hearts of the Missing: A Mystery

Carol Potenza · Buy on Amazon

Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom

Ariel Burger · Buy on Amazon

The Western Wind

Samantha Harvey · Buy on Amazon

The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

Jonathan Franzen · Buy on Amazon

What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape

Sohaila Abdulali · Buy on Amazon

Come with Me: A Novel

Helen Schulman · Buy on Amazon

Indie Next List — December 2019 (2019)

Source: www.indiebound.org

Anyone: A Novel

Charles Soule · Buy on Amazon

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen: A Novel

Dexter Palmer · Buy on Amazon

The German House

Annette Hess, Elisabeth Lauffer · Buy on Amazon

Twenty-one Truths About Love: A Novel

Matthew Dicks · Buy on Amazon

The Second Sleep

Robert Harris · Buy on Amazon

Not the Girl You Marry

Andie J. Christopher · Buy on Amazon

The Clergyman's Wife: A Pride & Prejudice Novel

Molly Greeley · Buy on Amazon

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition

Buddy Levy · Buy on Amazon

Trace of Evil: A Natalie Lockhart Novel

Alice Blanchard · Buy on Amazon

The Innocents: A Novel

Michael Crummey · Buy on Amazon

NVK: A Novel

Temple Drake · Buy on Amazon

The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era

Mr. Gareth Russell · Buy on Amazon

A Madness of Sunshine

Nalini Singh · Buy on Amazon

The Sacrament: A Novel

Olaf Olafsson · Buy on Amazon

Under Occupation: A Novel

Alan Furst · Buy on Amazon

Dead Astronauts: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer · Buy on Amazon

The Wicked Redhead: A Wicked City Novel

Beatriz Williams · Buy on Amazon

Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

Adam Minter · Buy on Amazon

Indie Next List — December 2020 (2020)

Source: www.indiebound.org

A Wealth of Pigeons: A Cartoon Collection

Steve Martin, Harry Bliss · Buy on Amazon

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi · Buy on Amazon

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany

Lori Nelson Spielman · Buy on Amazon

Big Girl, Small Town

Michelle Gallen · Buy on Amazon

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Lauren Redniss · Buy on Amazon

Eartheater: A Novel

Dolores Reyes, Julia Sanches · Buy on Amazon

How to Fail at Flirting

Denise Williams · Buy on Amazon

The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel

Zeyn Joukhadar · Buy on Amazon

A Certain Hunger

Chelsea G. Summers · Buy on Amazon

Little Wishes: A Novel

Michelle Adams · Buy on Amazon

How to Catch a Queen: Runaway Royals

Alyssa Cole · Buy on Amazon

Shed No Tears: A Novel

Caz Frear · Buy on Amazon

The Chicken Sisters

KJ Dell'Antonia · Buy on Amazon

The Orchard: A Novel

David Hopen · Buy on Amazon

Nights When Nothing Happened: A Novel

Simon Han · Buy on Amazon

The Arctic Fury

Greer Macallister · Buy on Amazon

Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son

Homeira Qaderi · Buy on Amazon

Barely Functional Adult: It'll All Make Sense Eventually

Meichi Ng · Buy on Amazon

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