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.
The Wonder
By Emma Donoghue
Narrated by Kate Lock / 12 hours 24 minutes
A 2016 Shirley Jackson Awards Finalist
*The latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room*
In the latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds... Read More »
Trainwreck
The women we love to hate, mock, and fear, and why
By Sady Doyle
Narrated by Alex McKenna / 7 hours 34 minutes
She’s everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck.
She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself.
From Mary Wollstonecraft—who, for decades after her death, was more famous for... Read More »
Truevine
Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
By Beth Macy
Narrated by Suzanne Toren / 10 hours 53 minutes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.
The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little... Read More »
Hero of the Empire
The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
By Candice Millard
Narrated by Simon Vance / 10 hours 13 minutes
From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War
At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had... Read More »
Commonwealth
By Ann Patchett
Narrated by Hope Davis / 10 hours 33 minutes
The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives.
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed... Read More »
A Great Reckoning
A Novel
Chief Inspector Gamache Novel: Book #12
By Louise Penny
Narrated by Robert Bathurst / 13 hours 32 minutes
When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes.
Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary.... Read More »
Mischling
By Affinity Konar
Narrated by Vanessa Johansson / 10 hours 56 minutes
A New York Times Notable Book
An Amazon Best Book of the Year
A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick
An Indie Next Pick
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Flavorwire Best Book of the Year
An Elle Best Book of the Year
"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting... Read More »
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Novel
By Amor Towles
Narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith / 17 hours 51 minutes
“The book is like a salve. I think the world feels disordered right now. The count’s refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we’re longing for.” —Ann Patchett
“How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World elegance.” —The Washington Post
He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to.
... Read More »
The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club)
A Novel
By Colson Whitehead
Narrated by Bahni Turpin / 10 hours 43 minutes
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially... Read More »
The Muse
A Novel
By Jessie Burton
Narrated by Bahni Turpin & Maria Elena Infantino / 13 hours 21 minutes
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women—a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain—and the powerful mystery that ties them together.
England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London.... Read More »
Behind Closed Doors
A Novel
By B. A. Paris
Narrated by Georgia Maguire / 8 hours 23 minutes
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING DEBUT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU CAN'T MISS!
The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?
“A hair-raising debut, both unsettling and addictive...A chilling thriller that will keep you reading long into the night.” —Mary Kubica, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Good... Read More »
Carousel Court
A Novel
By Joe McGinniss
Narrated by Joy Osmanski & Corey Brill / 10 hours 54 minutes
A fast, frightening, and thrillingly contemporary novel about marriage and money that early reviewers are calling “powerful” (Booklist, starred review), “propulsive” (Publishers Weekly), “totally addictive” (Bookish), and “a novel of unrelenting tension” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Here is one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and... Read More »
Bones of Paradise
A Novel
By Jonis Agee
Narrated by Christina Traister / 14 hours 27 minutes
The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multigenerational family saga set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sand Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee—an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a... Read More »
Arrowood
A Novel
By Laura McHugh
Narrated by Sarah Scott / 10 hours 17 minutes
“Superb and subtle psychological suspense.”—Lee Child
A haunting novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a young woman’s return to her childhood home—and her encounter with the memories and family secrets it holds
ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST
Arrowood is the most ornate and grand of the historical houses that line the Mississippi River... Read More »
Dark Matter
A Novel
By Blake Crouch
Narrated by Jon Lindstrom / 10 hours 7 minutes
A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy.
“Are you happy with your life?”
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.
Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.
Before a man... Read More »
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
A Novel
By Scott Stambach
Narrated by Dan Bittner / 8 hours 13 minutes
The Fault In Our Stars meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan, which is why he turns everything into a game, manipulating people and events around him for his own... Read More »
Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
By Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Narrated by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & John Green / 2 hours 53 minutes
The bestselling author of Encyclopedia an Ordinary Life returns with a literary experience that is unprecedented, unforgettable, and explosively human.
Ten years after her beloved, groundbreaking Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal delivers a book full of her distinct blend of nonlinear... Read More »
Underground Airlines
By Ben Winters
Narrated by William DeMeritt / 9 hours 28 minutes
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The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?
A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly,... Read More »
The Girls
A Novel
By Emma Cline
Narrated by Cady McClain / 9 hours 44 minutes
THE INSTANT BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • NPR • The Guardian • Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Financial Times • Esquire • Newsweek • Vogue • Glamour • People • The... Read More »
Before the Fall
By Noah Hawley
Narrated by Robert Petkoff / 12 hours 55 minutes
Winner of the 2017 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL and the 2017 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING CREATOR OF FARGO COMES "ONE THE YEAR'S BEST SUSPENSE NOVELS" (NEW YORK TIMES).
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet... Read More »