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April 30, 2020By Erin Somers

Majumdar’s A Burning Tops June Indie Next List

April 30, 2020By Erin Somers

The ABA named A Burning by Megha Majumdar as its No. 1 Indie Next Pick for June. Also on the list are Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half and Sam Lansky’s Broken People, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2020 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks:

The Jane Austen Society, by Natalie Jenner
Beach Read, by Emily Henry
The Second Home, by Christina Clancy
Catherine House, by Elisabeth Thomas
Super Host, by Kate Russo
Pizza Girl, by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Something to Talk About, by Meryl Wilsner
Reproduction, by Ian Williams
You Exist Too Much, by Zaina Arafat
Red Dress in Black and White, by Elliot Ackerman
The Falling Woman, by Richard Farrell
I’d Give Anything, by Marisa de los Santos
A Taste of Sage, by Yaffa S. Santos
Shakespeare for Squirrels, by Christopher Moore
The Lost Diary of Venice, by Margaux DeRoux
Weird but Normal, by Mia Mercado
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women, by Wayétu Moore

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