Indie Next Picks

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Last update: December 2024
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Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,339 members
608 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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The Passage
by Justin Cronin
10,452 members
674 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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3
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
17,421 members
1,039 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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4
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
15,247 members
543 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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5
Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
4,212 members
306 reviews
4
3 Members
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
24,134 members
971 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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7
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
22,604 members
1,358 reviews
4
2 Members
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8
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
21,324 members
1,312 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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9
Room
by Emma Donoghue
16,109 members
1,027 reviews
4
2 Members
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10
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
10,202 members
555 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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11
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
9,724 members
339 reviews
4
2 Members
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12
Daisy Jones and The Six
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
9,565 members
445 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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13
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
8,512 members
688 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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14
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
by Gabrielle Zevin
7,375 members
618 reviews
4
2 Members
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15
Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
7,342 members
314 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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16
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
6,136 members
182 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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17
The Tiger's Wife
by Téa Obreht
6,030 members
354 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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18
The Bone Clocks
by David Mitchell
5,972 members
311 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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19
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
5,812 members
259 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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20
Magpie Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
5,042 members
265 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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21
American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins
5,018 members
225 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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22
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
5,013 members
195 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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23
My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
4,656 members
294 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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24
Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
4,457 members
205 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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25
Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
4,375 members
203 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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26
The Girls
by Emma Cline
4,145 members
260 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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27
How to Sell a Haunted House
by Grady Hendrix
2,958 members
97 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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28
The Paris Library
by Janet Skeslien Charles
2,813 members
126 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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29
Matrix
by Lauren Groff
2,274 members
111 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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30
Leaving Time
by Jodi Picoult
2,092 members
144 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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31
History of Wolves
by Emily Fridlund
1,470 members
81 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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32
All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel
by Elan Mastai
1,337 members
104 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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33
The Prophets
by Robert Jones Jr.
1,151 members
30 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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34
Tangerine
by Christine Mangan
1,033 members
52 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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35
Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
by Nina MacLaughlin
289 members
8 reviews
4
2 Members
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36
The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
9,818 members
449 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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37
The Rosie Project
by Graeme Simsion
8,765 members
594 reviews
4
Member
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38
The Light Between Oceans
by M. L. Stedman
8,363 members
542 reviews
3.9
Member
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39
Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
7,030 members
295 reviews
4.1
Member
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40
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
6,324 members
491 reviews
4
Member
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41
There There
by Tommy Orange
6,136 members
247 reviews
4
Member
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42
James
by Percival Everett
6,104 members
234 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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43
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
5,983 members
216 reviews
4.2
Member
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45
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
5,808 members
341 reviews
4.1
Member
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46
Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
5,006 members
237 reviews
4
Member
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47
The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore
4,779 members
162 reviews
4
Member
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48
Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
4,498 members
253 reviews
3.8
Member
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49
Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
4,379 members
238 reviews
4.2
Member
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50
Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
4,371 members
226 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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51
The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John Mandel
4,076 members
213 reviews
3.8
Member
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52
My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Elizabeth Russell
3,872 members
174 reviews
4.1
Member
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53
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
by Carmen Maria Machado
3,750 members
136 reviews
3.8
Member
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54
The Queen of the Tearling
by Erika Johansen
3,364 members
176 reviews
3.9
Member
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55
Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
2,682 members
241 reviews
4
Member
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56
In the Dream House: A Memoir
by Carmen Maria Machado
2,633 members
81 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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57
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
2,624 members
195 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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58
Moonglow
by Michael Chabon
2,565 members
94 reviews
3.9
Member
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59
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
by Neal Stephenson
2,530 members
110 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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60
Canada
by Richard Ford
2,494 members
140 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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61
The Women in the Castle
by Jessica Shattuck
2,386 members
130 reviews
3.9
Member
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62
The Mothers
by Brit Bennett
2,379 members
108 reviews
3.8
Member
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63
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
by Katarina Bivald
2,248 members
180 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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64
Great Circle
by Maggie Shipstead
2,080 members
86 reviews
4
Member
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65
Three Women
by Lisa Taddeo
2,050 members
73 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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66
Left Neglected
by Lisa Genova
2,027 members
145 reviews
3.9
Member
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67
I Have Some Questions For You
by Rebecca Makkai
2,005 members
91 reviews
3.8
Member
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68
When She Woke
by Hillary Jordan
1,784 members
181 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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69
Us
by David Nicholls
1,697 members
88 reviews
3.8
Member
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70
The House Girl
by Tara Conklin
1,695 members
92 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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71
Chronic City
by Jonathan Lethem
1,558 members
59 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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72
To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
1,496 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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73
Underground Airlines
by Ben H. Winters
1,486 members
81 reviews
3.9
Member
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74
Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
1,356 members
98 reviews
3.9
Member
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75
Death in Her Hands
by Ottessa Moshfegh
1,343 members
49 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
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76
The Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff
1,243 members
61 reviews
3.9
Member
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77
Faithful
by Alice Hoffman
1,139 members
72 reviews
4
Member
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78
The Guest Book
by Sarah Blake
1,069 members
43 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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79
The Incendiaries
by R. O. Kwon
947 members
47 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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80
Libertie
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
924 members
39 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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81
Virgil Wander
by Leif Enger
914 members
53 reviews
4
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82
The Light Pirate
by Lily Brooks-Dalton
901 members
47 reviews
4.2
Member
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83
She Would Be King: A Novel
by Wayétu Moore
639 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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84
Orhan's Inheritance
by Aline Ohanesian
493 members
31 reviews
4
Member
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85
Painted Horses
by Malcolm Brooks
233 members
15 reviews
3.8
Member
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86
A Lucky Man: Stories
by Jamel Brinkley
203 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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88
Scribe
by Alyson Hagy
160 members
6 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
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89
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V. E. Schwab
15,475 members
394 reviews
4.1
90
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
14,424 members
619 reviews
½ 4.4
91
Under the Dome
by Stephen King
13,578 members
488 reviews
3.8
Member
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92
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,603 members
567 reviews
½ 4.3
93
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski
9,195 members
428 reviews
½ 3.7
94
Book Lovers
by Emily Henry
8,609 members
219 reviews
4.1
95
Yellowface
by R. F. Kuang
5,919 members
241 reviews
3.8
96
Happy Place
by Emily Henry
5,627 members
135 reviews
3.9
97
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls
5,278 members
242 reviews
4
98
Bride
by Ali Hazelwood
5,054 members
112 reviews
4
99
Faithful Place
by Tana French
4,921 members
304 reviews
3.9
100
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
4,897 members
351 reviews
½ 3.7