The Indie Next List

The Wives

A Memoir

By: Simone Gorrindo
Narrated by: Simone Gorrindo
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

“When I was a young child my father was in the Army and based at Ft. Benning, GA. When we were there, the Cuban Missile Crisis happened. I have vague memories of being evacuated to the school gym. The Army wives in this book, also stationed at Ft. Benning, were there during the war in Afghanistan. I don't know how similar their stories are to my... Read more

Like Happiness

A Novel

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Narrated by: Marisa Blake
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

“A fascinating story about a complex relationship between a young woman and a famous novelist. The novel explores issues of gender, Latina culture and power imbalances. Read more

The Tree Doctor

By: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Narrated by: June Angela
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

“Our unnamed narrator is in California caring for her ill mother. The disease has hit the world - hard - and folks are in isolation, lock-down or 'just be careful' while her husband and daughters are in Hong Kong, beyond her reach. Life is closing in on her, taking away the joy, the humor, the sex. What will become of her? As if a reflection of... Read more

A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins
Narrated by: Ellie Gossage
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

“Higgins’ debut is a pull on the cigarette you shouldn’t be having, the shot of adrenaline you get when you wake up through the daze of a hangover and remember your bad dreams. A Good Happy Girl is a pitch-perfect entry into the lesbian canon. Read more

Wandering Stars

A novel

By: Tommy Orange
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cuervo, Curtis Michael Holland, Calvin Joyal, Phil Ava, Emmanuel Chumaceiro, Christian Young & Charley Flyte
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

“Tommy Orange has struck gold again! Read more

A Fate Inked in Blood

Book One of the Saga of the Unfated

Saga of the Unfated: Book #1

By: Danielle L. Jensen
Narrated by: Nina Yndis
Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

“A Fate Inked in Blood is a riveting starter to what will no doubt be another steamy, wondrous fantasy series by Jensen. The lore is complex and the characters are quick to cut, with a cliffhanger that left me hungry for the next installment. Read more

Listen for the Lie

A Novel

By: Amy Tintera
Narrated by: January LaVoy & Will Damron
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

“Woah, you need to read (or listen) to this book. Perfect for the true crime podcast junkies. I was hooked! Read more

The Other Valley

A Novel

By: Scott Alexander Howard
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

“Such an intriguing concept and expertly executed. To the east of the valley is the same town but 20 years ahead, and to the west 20 years behind. 16 year old Odile is training to become a member of Conseil; a judge who decides which residents can cross boarders. Odile is succeeding until a case becomes personal and emotions run high. Gripping... Read more

The Hunter

A Novel

By: Tana French
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

“With sharp dialogue and expert character development, Tana French transports readers to the Irish countryside in The Hunter. Asking what we owe our community, this novel secures French’s place at the top of the literary mystery genre. Read more

The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft
Narrated by: Lanessa Tremblett
Length: 12 hours

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY WALL STREET JOURNAL, ELLE, TOWN & COUNTRY, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, CRIMEREADS, DOCUMENT JOURNAL, AND WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS * NAMED A MUST READ BY NPR, PEOPLE, VANITY FAIR, NYLON, ALTA JOURNAL, AND DEBUTIFUL

“Oh my mushrooms, The Extinction of Irena Rey is incredibly strange,... Read more

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

The heart-warming Korean sensation

By: Hwang Bo-reum
Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
Length: 8 hours

Bloomsbury presents Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, read by Rosa Escoda.

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell's Pick of the Month * A Bookshop Best Book of the Year So Far

The Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a... Read more

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Reese's Book Club Pick (A Novel)

By: Xochitl Gonzalez
Narrated by: Jessica Pimentel, Jonathan Gregg & Stacy Gonzalez
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

“Great storytelling from multiple characters perspective that touches on feminism, gender, power, race and art. Loved this gripping story. Marvelous audiobook. Read more

Piglet

A Novel

By: Lottie Hazell
Narrated by: Rebekah Hinds
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

"Hinds’ depiction of Piglet’s frantic appetite is piercing, capturing her insatiable need for the lushly described food. This is a listen like slightly burnt caramel—sharp and dark, yet still luscious."—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it all

Outside... Read more

Thunder Song

Essays

By: Sasha LaPointe
Narrated by: Sasha LaPointe
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taq?š?blu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and... Read more

Splinters

Another Kind of Love Story

By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

“Leslie Jamison is a truth-teller and this memoir about splitting with her husband and raising her infant daughter in her first year of life was absolutely gripping. Read it for the specificity of detail, the masterful descriptions of emotional and psychological shifts, and for her powerful prose. A knock-out! Read more

The Great Divide

A Novel

By: Cristina Henriquez
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

“There are few things I enjoy more than an author using fiction to shed light on big histories we think we know. This novel captures the period of upheaval in Panama as the canal was built. You get the sweeping impact of the US colonial campaign in Panama, juxtaposed against the personal cost for so many Panamanians and West Indians. It’s largely... Read more

Bye, Baby

A Novel

By: Carola Lovering
Narrated by: Helen Laser & Karissa Vacker
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

“I hate that I love this. The amount of anxiety I felt while reading was unhealthy. Truthfully, this book isn’t one I would recommend to anyone I know - it’s not for the faint of heart. However, I’m wholly impressed that a novel with countless triggers, unlikeable characters, and an egregious plot kept me intrigued, engaged, and entertained... Read more

The Still Point

By: Tammy Greenwood
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Ever, Lindsay, and Josie have ushered their daughters—Bea, Olive, and Savvy—through years of dance classes. They've tended bloodied feet, stitched ribbons to countless pairs of pointe shoes, and forged friendships that seem to transcend rivalry.



But now Etienne Bernay, enfant terrible of French ballet, has come to their conservatory. Not only... Read more

Fruit of the Dead

A Novel

By: Rachel Lyon
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & Joy Osmanski
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

“In this Persephone and Hades retelling, a freshly 18-year-old woman is whisked away to a private island owned by a darkly repugnant billionaire to work as his live-in nanny. His intentions from the jump are nothing but suspect, but Cory, angry at her mother, wayward after high school, and blind against the world's inherent iniquity, willingly... Read more

Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley
Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

“TW: Suicide. Bestselling author, Sloane Crosley, came home to her New York apartment one afternoon to find she had been robbed and all of her valuable possessions - including several family heirlooms - stolen. For a month she struggled to comprehend her loss and sense of violation. Then she received a phone call informing her that her best... Read more