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.
Spinning Silver
A Novel
By Naomi Novik
Narrated by Lisa Flanagan / 17 hours 56 minutes
A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, which was hailed as “a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic” by The New York Times Book Review.
With the Nebula Award–winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving... Read More »
The Great Believers
By Rebecca Makkai
Narrated by Michael Crouch / 18 hours 16 minutes
“A page turner...An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s like to live during times of crisis. "—The New York Times Book Review
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed author Rebecca Makkai
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the... Read More »
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
By Ottessa Moshfegh
Narrated by Julia Whelan / 7 hours 14 minutes
From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes
Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young,... Read More »
Bearskin
A Novel
By James A. McLaughlin
Narrated by MacLeod Andrews / 9 hours 48 minutes
“Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling—filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It’s a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of exceptional prose. There are very few first novels when I feel compelled to circle brilliant passages, but James McLaughlin’s writing had me doing just that.” —C.J. Box, #1 NYT bestselling author... Read More »
Clock Dance
A novel
By Anne Tyler
Narrated by Kimberly Farr / 9 hours 11 minutes
A charming new novel of self-discovery and second chances from the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread.
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In... Read More »
The Summer Wives
A Novel
By Beatriz Williams
Narrated by Kristin Kalbli / 11 hours 47 minutes
New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season—an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast . . .
In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the... Read More »
The Cabin at the End of the World
A Novel
By Paul Tremblay
Narrated by Amy Landon / 9 hours 25 minutes
“A tremendous book―thought-provoking and terrifying, with tension that winds up like a chain. The Cabin at the End of the World is Tremblay’s personal best. It’s that good.” — Stephen King
The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of... Read More »
The Secrets Between Us
A Novel
By Thrity Umrigar
Narrated by Sneha Mathan / 11 hours 55 minutes
Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel—a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself and her granddaughter in modern India.
"It isn’t the... Read More »
Bring Me Back
A Novel
By B. A. Paris
Narrated by Cathleen McCarron & Kevin Hely / 7 hours 37 minutes
THE NEW TWISTY, GRIPPING AUDIOBOOK FROM B. A. PARIS, THE AUTHOR OF THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING TITLES BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AND THE BREAKDOWN
“We’re in a new Golden Age of suspense writing now, because of amazing books like Bring Me Back, and I for one am loving it.” —Lee Child
She went missing. He moved on. A whole world of... Read More »
The Lost Vintage
A Novel
By Ann Mah
Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld / 11 hours 43 minutes
“If you enjoyed my Sarah’s Key and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, then this wonderful book by Ann Mah is for you.” -- Tatiana de Rosnay
Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who returns to her family’s ancestral vineyard in Burgundy and unexpectedly uncovers a lost diary, an unknown relative, and a secret... Read More »
The Ruin
By Dervla McTiernan
Narrated by Aoife McMahon / 10 hours 24 minutes
Cormac Reilly is about to reopen the case that took him twenty years to forget ... The most addictive crime fiction debut of 2018.
"The Ruin is spectacularly good. So CONFIDENT ... excellently written and, at times, heartcatchingly sad" –Marian Keyes
"Dervla McTiernan's first novel outclasses some of the genre's stalwarts making her a crime writer... Read More »
The Lido
By Libby Page
Narrated by Clare Corbett / 9 hours 18 minutes
A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject—and the unlikely and life-changing friendship that develops between them.
Kate is a twenty-six-year-old riddled with anxiety and panic attacks who works for a local paper in Brixton, London, covering forgettably small stories. When she’s assigned to write about... Read More »
An Ocean of Minutes
A Novel
By Thea Lim
Narrated by Lisa Rost-Welling / 7 hours 59 minutes
In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.
America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to a... Read More »
Number One Chinese Restaurant
A Novel
By Lillian Li & Matie Argiropoulos
Narrated by Nancy Wu / 11 hours 53 minutes
From Lillian Li comes an exuberant and wise multigenerational debut audiobook about the complicated lives and loves of people working in everyone’s favorite Chinese restaurant.
The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen... Read More »
From the Corner of the Oval
A Memoir
By Beck Dorey-Stein
Narrated by Beck Dorey-Stein / 9 hours 53 minutes
From the Corner of the Oval
“I loved listening to this. While I disagreed with many of Beck's choices and decisions, I couldn't help rooting for her and wanting her to figure it ALL out. She's an engaging narrator as well as a talented writer. I especially loved President Obama's cameos and his warmth and dedication shown through. I am curious as to who some of the people are IRL since her descriptions definitely peaked my curiosity. I can't wait to see where she goes next.”
Audrey, Belmont Books
Providence
Velvet: Book #2
By Diana Kane
Narrated by Emily Beresford /
Dr. Sara Hudson has dedicated her life to her patients. Unable to turn anyone away, she sacrifices more and more of herself to them, trying to do the impossible by helping everyone. Her tight knit network of friends are one of the few things that have kept her sane, but after ten years of putting everything into her career she is hurtling... Read More »
The Last Cruise
A Novel
By Kate Christensen
Narrated by Rob Shapiro / 10 hours 2 minutes
From the acclaimed PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a riveting high-seas adventure that combines Christensen's signature wit, irony, and humanity to create a striking and unforgettable vision of our times.
The 1950s vintage ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage before heading to the scrapyard. For the... Read More »
If You See Me, Don't Say Hi
Stories
By Neel Patel & Robert Van Kolken
Narrated by Neel Patel / 6 hours 39 minutes
"If You See Me, Don't Say Hi bristles with unexpected meetings and reunions, recognitions and failed recognitions, passions and estrangements of all kinds. These stories have a sharp eye for the complexities of modern life, but Neel Patel writes with the wisdom and compassion of an old soul." — Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of... Read More »
Witchmark
By C.L Polk
Narrated by Samuel Roukin / 8 hours 53 minutes
A stunning, addictive fantasy debut that combines intrigue, magic, betrayal, and romance in an original world with a historical WWI tone. In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a world war, cabals of noble families use their unique magical gifts to control the fates of nations, while one young man seeks only to... Read More »
There There
A novel
By Tommy Orange
Narrated by Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo & Kyla Garcia / 7 hours 59 minutes
There There
“A stunning debut novel by an original voice. Twelve characters of Native American descent, interrelated by birth or chance, struggle with the competing forces of cultural history and modern urban existence. Their stories build separately before colliding powerfully in the book’s final pages at The Big Oakland Powwow. I was riveted.”
Keltie, Parnassus Books
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