Indie Next Picks

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Last update: December 2024
1
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,190 members
607 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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2
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
10,403 members
671 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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3
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
17,274 members
1,034 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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4
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
14,966 members
540 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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5
Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
4,265 members
304 reviews
4
3 Members
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
23,869 members
962 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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7
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
22,453 members
1,354 reviews
4
2 Members
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8
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
21,239 members
1,308 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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9
Room
by Emma Donoghue
15,998 members
1,026 reviews
4
2 Members
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10
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
10,131 members
554 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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11
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
9,623 members
332 reviews
4
2 Members
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12
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
8,504 members
684 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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13
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
by Gabrielle Zevin
7,296 members
617 reviews
4
2 Members
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14
Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
7,246 members
310 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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15
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
5,996 members
180 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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16
The Tiger's Wife
by Téa Obreht
5,986 members
353 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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17
The Bone Clocks
by David Mitchell
5,925 members
309 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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18
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
5,752 members
257 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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19
Magpie Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
4,986 members
264 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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20
American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins
4,963 members
224 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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21
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
4,886 members
193 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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22
My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
4,613 members
293 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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23
Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
4,577 members
204 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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24
Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
4,497 members
203 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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25
The Girls
by Emma Cline
4,131 members
259 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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26
How to Sell a Haunted House
by Grady Hendrix
2,867 members
96 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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27
The Paris Library
by Janet Skeslien Charles
2,765 members
125 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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28
Matrix
by Lauren Groff
2,279 members
111 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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29
Leaving Time
by Jodi Picoult
2,093 members
143 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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30
History of Wolves
by Emily Fridlund
1,453 members
79 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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31
All Our Wrong Todays
by Elan Mastai
1,333 members
104 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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32
The Prophets
by Robert Jones Jr.
1,138 members
30 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
Tangerine
by Christine Mangan
1,028 members
52 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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34
Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
by Nina MacLaughlin
284 members
8 reviews
4
2 Members
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35
The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
9,884 members
447 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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36
Daisy Jones and The Six
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
9,459 members
440 reviews
4.1
Member
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37
The Rosie Project
by Graeme Simsion
8,711 members
592 reviews
4
Member
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38
The Light Between Oceans
by M. L. Stedman
8,388 members
541 reviews
3.9
Member
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39
Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
6,852 members
292 reviews
4.1
Member
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40
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
6,301 members
490 reviews
4
Member
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41
There There
by Tommy Orange
6,067 members
243 reviews
4
Member
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43
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
5,891 members
213 reviews
4.2
Member
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44
James
by Percival Everett
5,880 members
227 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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45
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
5,800 members
340 reviews
4.1
Member
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46
Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
4,974 members
235 reviews
4
Member
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47
Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
4,456 members
251 reviews
3.8
Member
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48
Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
4,349 members
226 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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49
Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
4,290 members
235 reviews
4.2
Member
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50
The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John Mandel
4,014 members
212 reviews
3.8
Member
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51
My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Elizabeth Russell
3,945 members
174 reviews
4.1
Member
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52
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
by Carmen Maria Machado
3,671 members
136 reviews
3.8
Member
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53
The Queen of the Tearling
by Erika Johansen
3,337 members
174 reviews
3.9
Member
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54
Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
2,666 members
240 reviews
4
Member
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55
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
2,615 members
195 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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56
In the Dream House: A Memoir
by Carmen Maria Machado
2,600 members
80 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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57
Moonglow
by Michael Chabon
2,556 members
93 reviews
3.9
Member
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58
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
by Neal Stephenson
2,515 members
109 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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59
Canada
by Richard Ford
2,483 members
140 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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60
The Mothers
by Brit Bennett
2,371 members
107 reviews
3.8
Member
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61
The Women in the Castle
by Jessica Shattuck
2,343 members
130 reviews
3.9
Member
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62
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
by Katarina Bivald
2,235 members
179 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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63
Great Circle
by Maggie Shipstead
2,038 members
84 reviews
4
Member
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64
Three Women
by Lisa Taddeo
2,023 members
73 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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65
Left Neglected
by Lisa Genova
2,019 members
145 reviews
3.9
Member
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66
I Have Some Questions For You
by Rebecca Makkai
1,997 members
92 reviews
3.8
Member
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67
When She Woke
by Hillary Jordan
1,780 members
181 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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68
Us
by David Nicholls
1,690 members
88 reviews
3.8
Member
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69
The House Girl
by Tara Conklin
1,688 members
92 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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70
Chronic City
by Jonathan Lethem
1,551 members
59 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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71
Underground Airlines
by Ben H. Winters
1,478 members
81 reviews
3.9
Member
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72
To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
1,465 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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73
Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
1,348 members
98 reviews
3.9
Member
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74
Death in Her Hands
by Ottessa Moshfegh
1,326 members
47 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
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75
The Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff
1,220 members
61 reviews
3.9
Member
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76
Faithful
by Alice Hoffman
1,130 members
71 reviews
4
Member
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77
The Guest Book
by Sarah Blake
1,062 members
43 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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78
The Incendiaries
by R. O. Kwon
942 members
47 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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79
Libertie
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
918 members
39 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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80
Virgil Wander
by Leif Enger
906 members
53 reviews
4
Member
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81
The Light Pirate
by Lily Brooks-Dalton
885 members
46 reviews
4.2
Member
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82
She Would Be King: A Novel
by Wayétu Moore
636 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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83
Orhan's Inheritance
by Aline Ohanesian
490 members
31 reviews
4
Member
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84
Painted Horses
by Malcolm Brooks
233 members
15 reviews
3.8
Member
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85
A Lucky Man: Stories
by Jamel Brinkley
201 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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87
Scribe
by Alyson Hagy
157 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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88
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V. E. Schwab
15,108 members
389 reviews
4.1
89
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
14,308 members
617 reviews
½ 4.4
90
Under the Dome
by Stephen King
13,564 members
484 reviews
3.8
Member
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91
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,570 members
566 reviews
½ 4.3
92
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski
9,175 members
426 reviews
½ 3.7
93
Book Lovers
by Emily Henry
8,381 members
216 reviews
4.1
94
Yellowface
by R. F. Kuang
5,755 members
235 reviews
3.8
95
Happy Place
by Emily Henry
5,419 members
132 reviews
3.9
96
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls
5,235 members
242 reviews
4
97
Bride
by Ali Hazelwood
4,944 members
109 reviews
4
98
Faithful Place
by Tana French
4,909 members
303 reviews
3.9
99
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
4,884 members
349 reviews
½ 3.7
100
A Reliable Wife
by Robert Goolrick
4,867 members
357 reviews
½ 3.3