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. Independent booksellers are and have always been discoverers of the next big thing, the next great read, the next bestseller, and the next undiscovered gem. The audiobook titles below have recently appeared on the list.
Tangerine
By Christine Mangan
Narrated by Barrie Kreinik & Erin Mallon / 9 hours 28 minutes
The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the accident at Bennington, the two friends—once inseparable roommates—haven’t spoken in over a year. But there Lucy was, trying to make things right and return to their old rhythms. Perhaps Alice should be happy. She has not... Read More »
Circe
By Madeline Miller
Narrated by Perdita Weeks / 12 hours 8 minutes
#1 New York Times Bestseller
" A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story, Circe manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right." --- Alexandra Alter, New York Times
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a... Read More »
The Female Persuasion
A Novel
By Meg Wolitzer
Narrated by Rebecca Lowman / 14 hours 48 minutes
"[Wolitzer] writes in warm, specific prose that neither calls attention to itself nor ignores the mandate of the best books: to tell us things we know in ways we never thought to know them... [She] is an infinitely capable creator of human identities that are as real as the type on this page." -The New York Times Book Review
"Equal parts cotton... Read More »
And Now We Have Everything
On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
By Meaghan O'Connell
5 hours 8 minutes
One of the most anticipated books of 2018 -- Esquire, Elle, Nylon, Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, The Rumpus, GoodReads, The Millions, BookRiot, Bustle, The Week.
"Smart, funny, and true in all the best ways, this book made me ache with recognition." -- Cheryl Strayed
A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before... Read More »
The Oracle Year
A Novel
By Charles Soule
Narrated by Charlie Thurston / 12 hours 8 minutes
From bestselling comic-book franchise writer Charles Soule comes a clever and witty first novel of a twentysomething New Yorker who wakes up one morning with the power to predict the future—perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Brad Meltzer, or books like This Book Is Full of Spiders and Welcome to Night Vale.
Knowledge is power. So when an unassuming... Read More »
The Overstory
By Richard Powers
Narrated by Suzanne Toren / 22 hours 58 minutes
A monumental novel about reimagining our place in the living world, by one of our most "prodigiously talented" novelists (New York Times Book Review). The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force... Read More »
The Recovering
Intoxication and Its Aftermath
By Leslie Jamison
16 hours 6 minutes
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A)
"Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe
"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading." --Stephen King
"Perceptive and generous-hearted . . .... Read More »
Varina
A Novel
By Charles Frazier
Narrated by Molly Parker / 12 hours 7 minutes
In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War.
With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. He... Read More »
The Italian Teacher
By Tom Rachman
Narrated by Sam Alexander / 9 hours 37 minutes
“An exotic touch of intrigue arises in THE ITALIAN TEACHER . . . deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The Imperfectionists.
Conceived while his father, Bear, cavorted around Rome in the... Read More »
The Italian Party
A Novel
By Christina Lynch
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini / 10 hours 31 minutes
The Italian Party by Christina Lynch is a delicious and sharply funny audiobook about “innocent” Americans abroad in 1950s Siena.
Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany's famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each other force them beneath the splendid surface to a more complex view of ltaly, America and each... Read More »
Stray City
A Novel
By Chelsey Johnson
Narrated by Natalie Moore / 10 hours 22 minutes
A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging—to a city, a culture, and a family—when none of them can quite contain who you really are.
All of us were refugees of the nuclear family . . .
Twenty-four-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic... Read More »
Lawn Boy
By Jonathan Evison
Narrated by P.J. Ochlan / 8 hours 28 minutes
For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work—and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew—he knows that he's got to be the one to shake things up if he's ever going to change his... Read More »
Every Note Played
By Lisa Genova
Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris & Dagmara Dominczyk / 8 hours 2 minutes
From neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice comes a powerful and heartbreaking exploration of regret, forgiveness, freedom, and what it means to be alive.
An accomplished concert pianist, Richard received standing ovations from audiences all over the world in awe of his rare combination of emotional resonance and... Read More »
After Anna
By Lisa Scottoline
Narrated by Jeremy Bobb & Mozhan Marnò / 10 hours 51 minutes
From the New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline comes a fast-paced, thrilling new audiobook.
Nobody cuts deeper than family...
Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter... Read More »
Waiting for Tomorrow
A Novel
By Nathacha Appanah & Geoffrey Strachan
Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt / 4 hours 48 minutes
Anita is waiting for Adam to be released from prison. They met twenty years ago at a New Year's Eve party in Paris, a city where they both felt out of place?he as a recent arrival from the provinces, and she as an immigrant from the island of Mauritius. They quickly fell in love, married, and moved to a village in southwestern France, to live on... Read More »
Wade in the Water
Poems
By Tracy K. Smith
Narrated by Tracy K. Smith / 1 hour 18 minutes
In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted,... Read More »
Paris by the Book
A Novel
By Liam Callanan
Narrated by Kim Bubbs / 11 hours 50 minutes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Heading off in search of its author, a mother and her daughters find themselves in France, rescuing a failing bookstore and drawing closer to unexpected truths.
Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband. . . .
When eccentric... Read More »
I Was Anastasia
A Novel
By Ariel Lawhon
Narrated by Jane Collingwood, Sian Thomas & Ariel Lawhon / 13 hours 2 minutes
“Compelling and utterly fascinating…drifts far into the mysterious lives of Anastasia Romanov and Anna Anderson.”—Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours
In an enthralling new feat of historical suspense, Ariel Lawhon unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she... Read More »
Educated
A Memoir
By Tara Westover
Narrated by Julia Whelan / 12 hours 9 minutes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University
“A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up... Read More »
Don't Skip Out on Me
A Novel
By Willy Vlautin
Narrated by Willy Vlautin / 8 hours 5 minutes
Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He's spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains. But while the Reeses treat him like a son, Horace can't shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents. He decides to leave the... Read More »
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