Graeme Simsion’s THE ROSIE PROJECT is the No. 1 pick on the ABA’s October Indie Next List. You can start reading it right now in our free ebook Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2013: Fall/Winter — and that makes 5 out of the last 7 months that one of our Buzz Books selections has topped the Indie Next list. (You’ll find substantial excerpts of 40 big forthcoming fall releases to enjoy there.)
The full Indie Next List:
The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion
The Tilted World, by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly
The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Quiet Dell, by Jayne Anne Phillips
The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Last Banquet, by Jonathan Grimwood
Mrs. Poe, by Lynn Cullen
Longbourn, by Jo Baker
Mud Season, by Ellen Stimson
Dark Lies the Island: Stories, by Kevin Barry
Men We Reaped: A Memoir, by Jesmyn Ward
The Paris Architect, by Charles Belfoure
Three Can Keep a Secret, by Archer Mayor
The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman, by Sena Jeter Naslund
Guests on Earth, by Lee Smith
The Night Guest, by Fiona McFarlane
Lighthouse Island, by Paulette Jiles
Survival Lessons, by Alice Hoffman
Seven for a Secret, by Lyndsay Faye
Thursdays in the Park, by Hilary Boyd
Both Simsion’s book and Elizabeth Gilbert’s novel THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS (another of our Buzz Books) are touted together in the WSJ’s fall preview highlights today.