Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s debut novel The Nest tops the ABA’s April Indie Next List. (You can preview it now in our free Buzz Books 2016 ebook — along with other April picks from Faye, Chevalier, and Vestal.) The full list features:
Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren
Tuesday Nights in 1980, by Molly Prentiss
Jane Steele, by Lyndsay Faye
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, by Maggie Nelson
The Charm Bracelet, by Viola Shipman
Dodgers, by Bill Beverly
Lust & Wonder, by Augusten Burroughs
The Summer Before the War, by Helen Simonson
Lilac Girls, by Martha Hall Kelly
Fellside, by M.R. Carey
At the Edge of the Orchard, by Tracy Chevalier
Shelter, by Jung Yun
Daredevils, by Shawn Vestal
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, by Dominic Smith
The Railwayman’s Wife, by Ashley Hay
Most Wanted, by Lisa Scottoline
The One-in-a-Million Boy, by Monica Wood
Behave, by Andromeda Romano-Lax
The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh
Complete list, with comments