IndieBound

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending April 30, 2017.

Publishers are once again offering specials on 10 adult titles and 10 children’s titles chosen by panels of ABA member booksellers from across the U.S. as the top debuts of the upcoming publishing season.

Lisa Ko is the author of the Indies Introduce adult pick The Leavers, which Becky Milner of Vintage Books called “a bravura debut.”

Melissa Savage is the author of the Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce middle grade debut Lemons, “a wonderful story about love, loss, and healing,” said Katherine Megna-Weber of Books Inc.

Here are the 20 Next Great Reads and 12 Now in Paperback titles featured on the June 2017 Indie Next List flier.

Double Dutch, the Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce debut from Laura Trunkey, “is full of magical short stories that remind me of why I love this genre,” said Susan Hans O’Connor of Penguin Bookshop.

All ABA member stores are invited to sign up for the quarterly Kids’ Indie Next List eNewsletter pilot program, powered by Shelf Awareness.

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

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending April 16, 2017.

Amy Liptrot is the author of the Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce debut The Outrun, a “stunningly written journal of recovery,” said Darwin Ellis of Books on the Common.

“Undeniably bizarre in its plot, yet unsettlingly real in its exploration of marriage, childhood, and regret, Broken River is classic indie bookstore fare,” said Annie Metcalf of Magers & Quinn Booksellers.

The owners and staff at all ABA member stores are invited to cast their ballots to choose the winners of the 2017 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards. The voting deadline is April 30.

ABA member stores can now sign up for the quarterly Kids’ Indie Next List eNewsletter pilot program announced last week at the ABC Children’s Institute.

Andrew Forsthoefel is the author of the Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce pick Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time.

On Wednesday, April 5, booksellers at independent bookstores across the country began casting their ballots to choose the winners of the 2017 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards.