IndieBound

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending August 14, 2016.

Ann Patchett talks to BTW about her seventh novel, Commonwealth, which examines how one chance encounter irrevocably changed the course of two families’ lives. 

Adriana Mather is the author of How to Hang a Witch, a Summer/Fall 2016 Indies Introduce debut that “truly stands out as unique in the realm of teen fiction,” said Lisa Nehs of Books & Company.

The Autumn Kids’ Indie Next List features booksellers’ top 10 children’s picks for the fall publishing season, 33 additional titles organized by age group, plus nine Revisit & Rediscover favorites.

The ISBN for Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad: A Novel (Doubleday) on the September 2016 Indie Next List flier is incorrect.

Katie Kennedy is the author of the Summer/Fall 2016 Indies Introduce debut Learning to Swear in America, “the story of a fledgling teen finally getting the chance to be a kid,” said Janelle Smith of Auntie’s Bookstore.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 31, 2016.

Hubert Mingarelli is the author of the Summer/Fall 2016 Indies Introduce debut title A Meal in Winter: A Novel of World War II, which Sam Kaas of Village Books called “quietly devastating.”

Bookstores taking part in the Indie Next List Years of Discovery display contest have until August 31 to share photos of their August Indie Next List title displays; September displays must be shared by September 9.

The winner of the Indie Next List Great Reads giveaway for June is Laura Murray of Sunriver, Oregon, who picked up her Indie Next List flier and entry coupon at The Bookworks in Pacific Grove, California.

Yaa Gyasi is the author of the Summer/Fall 2016 Indies Introduce debut title Homegoing: A Novel, which Sarajane Giddings of Blue Door Books called “a stunning debut.”

Downloadable fliers and shelf-talkers are now available to promote the September Indie Next List’s Next Great Reads, Now in Paperback titles, and Revisit & Rediscover backlist favorites.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 17, 2016.

Martin Seay is the author of The Mirror Thief, a Winter/Spring 2016 Indies Introduce title that “will leave readers breathless,” said Jeremy Ellis of Brazos Bookstore.

Jacqueline Woodson’s first title for adults in 20 years is “a beautiful, heart-wrenching novel of a young girl’s coming-of-age in Brooklyn,” said Nicole Yasinsky of The Booksellers at Laurelwood.