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Hothouse Tops New Indie Next Picks

June 28, 2013
By Michael Cader

Boris Kachka’s book about FSG is the No. 1 pick on the August Indie Next List — and Alexander Maksik’s novel is the sixteenth of the 28 books featured in our Spring/Summer Buzz Books sampler to be named to a bookseller’s “best of the month” list. (The new edition is packed with substantial excerpts of 40 big fall and winter books that you can enjoy right now.)

Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, by Boris Kachka
Brewster, by Mark Slouka
Snow Hunters, by Paul Yoon
Babayaga, by Toby Barlow
Paris Was the Place, by Susan Conley
The Ghost Bride, by Yangsze Choo
A Marker to Measure Drift, by Alexander Maksik
The Gravity of Birds, by Tracy Guzeman
The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean, by Philip Caputo
The Butterfly Sister, by Amy Gail Hansen
The Rathbones, by Janice Clark
Countdown City: The Last Policeman, Book II, by Ben H. Winters
Traveling Light, by Andrea Thalasinos
The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese, by Michael Paterniti
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic, by Emily Croy Barker
Return to Oakpine, by Ron Carlson
The Gamal, by Ciaran Collins
Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s Greatest Escape, by Mark Lee Gardner
The Never List, by Koethi Zan
Massacre Pond, by Paul Doiron
Full list, with comments

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