The Indie Next List
With new audiobooks added each month, the Indie Next List is drawn from bookseller-recommended favorite handsells and epitomizes the heart and soul of passionate bookselling!
Once There Were Wolves
By Charlotte McConaghy
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Once There Were Wolves
“Inti and Aggie. Sisters. Twins. Aggie with a gift for language and Inti who belongs in the forest. A complicated intertwined life journey has landed the two of them in the wilds of Scotland as part of a wolf rehoming project where local tempers run hot, scientist's missions are complicated, and wolves howl for love and justice in the hills and peat bogs of the highland forests. McConaghy's writing will destroy you, demand your attention, ask you to be still and listen, and will absolutely change you. Once There Were Wolves and after there were, they'll never leave you. ”
Angie, The Country Bookshop
Damnation Spring
By Ash Davidson
Narrated by: CJ Wilson, Rebecca Lowman, Mark Sanderlin & Candace Thaxton
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
For generations, Rich Gundersen’s family has chopped a livelihood out of the redwood forest along California’s rugged coast. Now Rich and his wife, Colleen, are raising... Read more »
Nightbitch
A Novel
By Rachel Yoder
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
“[A] wily and... Read more »
She Who Became the Sun
By Shelley Parker-Chan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 14 hours 36 minutes
Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy.
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything
“I refuse to be nothing…”
In a famine-stricken village...
The Manningtree Witches
By A. K. Blakemore
Narrated by: Sofia Zervudachi
Length: TBA
England, 1643. Puritanical fervor has gripped the nation. And in Manningtree, a town depleted of men since the wars began, the hot terror of damnation burns in the hearts of women left to their own devices. Rebecca West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only occasionally by her infatuation with the...
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Intimacies
A Novel
By Katie Kitamura
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Intimacies
“Katie Kitamura's Intimacies details a few months in the life of an interpreter at The Hague who is looking for belonging to a place and perhaps to a partner. Just as she has to see beyond the words in her work, she has to interpret the actions of her married lover as well as the alleged atrocities of a war criminal she works with at the International Court. This novel is both quiet and thrilling.”
Rachel, Avid Bookshop
Afterparties
Stories
By Anthony Veasna So
Narrated by: Jason Sean
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
A Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Pick!
Named a Best Book of Summer by: Wall Street Journal * Thrillist * Vogue * Lit Hub * Refinery29 * New York Observer * The Daily Beast * Time * BuzzFeed * Entertainment Weekly
A vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life—immersive and comic, yet unsparing—that offers profound insight into the...
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All's Well
By Mona Awad
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
All's Well
“Mona Awad's latest, All's Well, is unhinged. But it's 2021, and after the last year, I think it's safe to say we all feel a little unhinged. I found myself delighted to be in the company of Awad's narrator, a woman with chronic pain who is hell-bent on staging a production of Shakespeare's All's Well with a troupe of mutinous undergrads. Awad has written a novel about pain that is not only funny, but heartbreakingly honest. ”
Lindsay, Parnassus Books
We Are the Brennans
By Tracey Lange
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
In the vein of Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame—and the redemptive power of love—in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.
When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a...
Mrs. March
By Virginia Feito
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: TBA
Appleseed
A Novel
By Matt Bell
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 15 hours 44 minutes
"Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bell’s Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious." --Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
A "work of incandescent imagination" (Karen Russell) from Young Lions Fiction Award–finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's...
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It Happened One Summer
A Novel
By Tessa Bailey
Narrated by: Charlotte North
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who’s cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong.
Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the...
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Clark and Division
By Naomi Hirahara
Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Made in China
A Memoir of Love and Labor
By Anna Qu
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family’s garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers... Read more »
The Reading List
A Novel
By Sara Nisha Adams
Narrated by: Tara Divina, Sagar Arya & Paul Panting
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
A BEST OF SUMMER READ ACCORDING TO NEWSWEEK, PARADE MAGAZINE, NBC NEWS, LITHUB, AND POPSUGAR!
An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.
Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after...
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Goldenrod
Poems
By Maggie Smith
Narrated by: Maggie Smith
Length: 1 hours 5 minutes
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.
With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her... Read more »
The Book of Accidents
A Novel
By Chuck Wendig
Narrated by: Xe Sands & George Newbern
Length: 16 hours 48 minutes
“The dread, the scope, the pacing, the turns—I haven’t felt all this so intensely since The Shining.”—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good... Read more »
The Turnout
By Megan Abbott
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder... Read more »
Falling
A Novel
By T. J. Newman
Narrated by: Steven Weber
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Falling
“Falling is the literary thriller that gets your heart racing and causes you to be both contemplative and terrified at the same time. TJ Newman, a former indie bookseller and a former flight attendant, knows how to tell a story. She writes with a remarkable turn of phrase and with insider knowledge of what can happen in an airplane. It's always a great day when an indie bookseller publishes a book. It's an extremely great day when the book is a fantastic page-turner.”
Cindy, Changing Hands
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Monk & Robot: Book #1
By Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Emmett Grosland
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“What do you do when you have everything you could ever need or want, but still aren't satisfied with what your life is? A Psalm for the Wild-Built is a short and sweet odd-couple road trip set in a beautiful world that could be our world — if we wanted it to be.”
Joey Puente, DIESEL, A Bookstore
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