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September 2011 Indie Next List

Out now, the Indie Next List for September!

Watch Elizabeth Letts discuss the true story of her new nonfiction title The Eighty-Dolar Champion.

And there are more videos for this month's titles for Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Jussi Adler-Olsen's The Keeper of Lost Causes, and Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words, a memoir of Alzheimer's by Kate Whouley.

From NPR, hear reviews of Justin Torres' novel We The Animals, and The Leftovers, the new novel from Tom Perrotta.

Explore new titles in depth and discuss with friends by digging into ReadingGroupChoices.com's conversation starters for We The Animals, The Language of Flowers. and The Night Circus.

Find the printed list at an independent bookstore near you. We're also offering a print-at-home version, found on the Indie Next List page directly beneath the carousel of titles, so you can browse at home and take it to your local indie.

Happy reading!



August 2011 Indie Next List

Out now, the Indie Next List for August!

Watch Adam Lewis Schroeder read from his new novel In the Fabled East.

From NPR, Lucia Silva of Portrait of a Bookstore echoes Robert McDonald of The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in his recommendation for Kevin Wilson's The Family Fang.

Explore new titles in depth and discuss with friends by digging into ReadingGroupChoices.com's conversation starters for Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy and The Call by Yannick Murphy.

Two novels on this month's list delve into the fantastic world surrounding P.T. Barnum in Gilded Age Manhattan: The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Bejnamin, and Stacy Carlson's Among the Wonderful.

Venture into an '80s pop culture-infused future in Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, and trek back to Fillory, where former Brakebills students reign, in Lev Grossman's highly anticipated sequel, The Magician King.

Find the printed list at an independent bookstore near you. We're also offering a print-at-home version, found on the Indie Next List page directly beneath the carousel of titles, so you can browse at home and take it to your local indie.

Happy reading!






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