IndieBound

ABA and the Authors Guild have launched a new initiative that will pair a debut Indies Introduce author with an established author for a conversation and book signing in the authors’ home area.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending September 3, 2017.

Here are the 20 Indie Next Great Reads and 12 Now in Paperback titles featured on the October 2017 Indie Next List flier on its way to stores in the IndieBound movement.

The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen, has been chosen by independent booksellers as a top pick for the Autumn Kids’ Indie Next List.

Based on sales through more than 300 independent bookstore locations participating in the Libro.fm audiobook program during the month of August.

Gregory Scott Katsoulis is the author of the young adult debut All Rights Reserved, which takes place in a dystopian future where nearly all words and gestures are copyrighted.

The September Indie Next List’s 12 Now in Paperback titles are featured with bookseller quotes on a downloadable flier and shelf-talkers.

Booksellers have chosen debut novel My Absolute Darling (Riverhead Books) by Gabriel Tallent as the #1 Indie Next List pick for September, which DIESEL’s John Evans has called “a Great American Novel.”

Celia C. Pérez is the author of the debut middle-grade novel The First Rule of Punk, which Laura Delaney of Rediscovered Books said she loved for its “blend of music, art, and family.”

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending August 13, 2017.

Margot Farris of pages: a bookstore said she “couldn’t help but root for every single character” in Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s A Kind of Freedom.

In Sidetracked, author Diana Harmon Asher “gives us a narrator with a unique voice,” said Dave Shallenberger of Little Shop of Stories.

Here is a preview of the 52 titles on the Autumn 2017 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Children’s White Box.

Bookseller recommendations are needed for the new annual Indie Next List Holiday Gift Guide flier, which will feature the top adult and children’s gift books across a range of categories.

The August Indie Next List e-newsletter, powered by Shelf Awareness, was delivered to 436,000 customers at 113 ABA member stores.