Joshilyn Jackson’s Someone Else’s Love Story is the independent booksellers’ top pick on the December Indie Next List. (It’s the sixth No. 1 pick in the last 8 months that was excerpted pre-publication in one of our Buzz Books ebook samplers.)
And in more monthly picks, another Fall/Winter Buzz Books selection — Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites — is Pennie’s Pick at Costco for November.
Here is the rest of the Indie Next list:
Death Comes to the Village, by Catherine Lloyd
Tuscan Rose, by Belinda Alexander
Stop Here, by Beverly Gologorsky
Brown Dog, by Jim Harrison
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells: An Homage to P.G. Wodehouse, by Sebastian Faulks
At Night We Walk in Circles, by Daniel Alarcón
Through the Evil Days, by Julia Spencer-Fleming
A Reader’s Book of Days, by Tom Nissley, Joanna Neborsky (Illus.)
Chickens in the Road: An Adventure in Ordinary Splendor, by Suzanne McMinn
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories From History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings, by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
The Housemaid’s Daughter, by Barbara Mutch
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, by Ari Shavit
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, by Sun-mi Hwang, Nomoco (Illus.), Chi-Young Kim (Trans.)
For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey, by Richard Blanco
My Mistake: A Memoir, by Daniel Menaker
Report From the Interior, by Paul Auster
Lonely Planet: A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure & Discovery on the Road, James Oseland, Ed.
This Is Between Us, by Kevin Sampsell
Recipes From an Edwardian Country House: A Stately English Home Shares Its Classic Tastes, by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
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