Indie Bestsellers

Owens' exquisite and heartbreaking novel is an August 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.

Straub's warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family is a May 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.

An inspiring, unforgettable novel of one woman's bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her, while living in a time, place, and culture devised to silence her. A May 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.

Cummins's new novel is an exploration into the inner hearts of people willing to sacrifice everything for a glimmer of hope. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for February 2020.

Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen--even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime.

Brilliantly weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events, Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times.

Patchett's moving new novel explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. An October 2019 Indie Next List Great Read.

The exhilarating new novel by the award-winning author of Station Eleven is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for April 2020.

In Connelly's latest thriller, journalist Jack McEvoy tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar--until now.

A deliciously funny and remarkably poignant novel about the power of friendship, the lure of frenemies, and the importance of making peace with yourself through all life's ups and downs.

King's new novel is an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman. A March 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.

An extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas--each pulling you into intriguing and frightening places.

Jenner's powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life is a June 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.

Turow's latest is a masterful legal thriller that unfolds in page-turning suspense--and questions how we measure a life.

Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking novel of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. An October 2019 Indie Next List Great Read.

In Doyle's most revealing and powerful memoir yet, she explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice deep within us.

Larson's fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz is a March 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.

Kendi's book is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.

Saad takes readers on a 28-day journey of how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

Buford's hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive account of his adventures in the world of French haute cuisine.

A bird book for birders and non-birders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing--and why.

Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

Westover's unforgettable memoir about growing up, being kept out of school, leaving her survivalist family, and going on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. A Winter/Spring 2018 Indies Introduce title and the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for March 2018.

Radiant with Mackesy's warmth and gentle wit, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse blends hand-written narrative with dozens of drawings.

Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis in this bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history. A September 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.

Gladwell offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.

Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations--and whose story inspires us to do the same.

Although Jollett's remarkable memoir is filled with heartbreak, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal. A May 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.

The heartrending story of a mid-century American family with twelve children--six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia--that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history.

Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.

A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of a picture-perfect family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Now a Hulu original series.

National Book Award-winner Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world.

Miller's masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.

Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.

Henry's novel about a romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut is a June 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.

Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup.

This powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.

A testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions. A September 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.

Rooney's novel is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship.

See's beautiful novel about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.

Finn's smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense is soon to be a major motion picture.

A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression.

Heller's gripping novel about two college students on a wilderness canoe trip.

DiAngelo explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

Award-winning New Yorker staff writer Keefe presents a stunning and intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.

The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 flu epidemic.

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.

A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II.

The tenth-anniversary edition of Alexander's iconic book discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.

Oluo guides readers of all races in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.

A groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be human.

The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. Wow, No Thank You. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice. Now a major motion picture.

Chödrön's classic book on overcoming life's difficulties cuts to the heart of spirituality and personal growth.

Ten articles from the Harvard Business Review to help you build your emotional strength and resilience--and to achieve high performance.

Noah's compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime coming-of-age memoir is set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.

Kendi's National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

van der Kolk transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing.