The Best Indie Books to Read with Your Book Club - Spring 2024
Introducing your new lineup of recommended book club picks from independent publishers for Spring 2024. There are so many great books to discover from indie presses and these books are guaranteed to spark lively conversations and enrich your book club meetings. Don't miss these captivating titles by marking them as "Want to Read", recommending them to your clubs, or including them in a poll for your next book club pick!
Night Falls on Predicament Avenue
by Jaime Jo Wright
For fans of Simone St. James, Hester Fox, and Wendy Webb, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue is a bone-chilling dual-time novel that won’t let you go until the last page. In 1910, Midwesterner Effie joins forces with a British newcomer to discover what lies behind the doors of the abandoned house on Predicament Avenue. In the present day, Norah reluctantly inherits the house turned bed and breakfast, where her first guest, a crime historian and podcaster, is set on uncovering the truth about what haunts this place.
Long After We Are Gone
by Terah Shelton Harris
“A big, beautiful, devastating, and ultimately hopeful novel.” —Erica Bauermeister, New York Times bestselling author of No Two Persons
An explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who return home in the wake of their father's death in order to save their family's home from being sold out from under them, from the author of One Summer in Savannah.
Fanning Fireflies: A romantic historical paranormal mystery
by LS Delorme
In 1944 Harrisville, Veronica toils relentlessly to secure a meager existence, with no room for distractions. Yet, as whispers of fire and ghostly voices intrude upon her reality, along with the unsettling gaze of her boss's son, she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Lazlo, a black soldier whose presence unsettles her further. Amidst the backdrop of a cigarette factory harboring dark secrets, Veronica's journey unveils the long-buried truths of her hometown, revealing the pervasive rot beneath its surface.
by Monique Charlesworth
A true story of the passionate and tragi-comic relationship between a mother running from her past in Hitler’s Germany and a daughter running towards it.
Inge was German, half-Jewish and a Holocaust survivor, all of which she chose to deny. Talented and able, charismatic and infuriating, she surged through life constantly reinventing herself. Sent out of Nazi Germany to the souks of Meknes, she fled a freezing attic in war-torn Brussels to land in a council estate in Birkenhead. London offered the escapee a new start until her past caught up with her. Triumph finally came in France where nobody knew who she was – least of all the friends who adored her.
Led by emotions she could barely understand, let alone control, Inge divided, and often she conquered. After her death, deep secrets emerged. Her daughters knew that she had always misled others – but not that they, too, might be collateral damage
Community Klepto: A Novel
by Kelly I. Hitchcock
Kirkus Reviews called the novel “devishly fun” and Lone Star Literary Life called it "…the perfect amalgam of cautionary tale, witty narration, and pure entertainment."
Ann Josephson is a twenty-something sociopath who dodges her friends, well-to-do parents, and even her graphic design job when she can—and she works from home. But she goes religiously to the gym. But when she arrives, her anxiety reaches fever pitch, expressing itself as compulsive kleptomania. Set in suburban Kansas City in the early 2010’s, COMMUNITY KLEPTO is a darkly humorous and compelling tale of a troubled young woman who discovers what risks are really worth taking, and that hope is fragile—but possible.
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by Céline Keating
In this timely and engrossing novel, a small web of people wrestle over the fate of the last undeveloped stretch of wild land in Montauk, a town on the far reaches of Long Island at risk from climate change. Keating writes movingly of our bonds to nature and our bonds to each other, and her deft, surprising, and even ingenious ending offers unexpected hope for our time.
“. . . an intelligent, psychologically astute, and beautifully written tale about the relationship of man and nature with not one predictable or cliched sentiment or situation in sight.”—JOAN BAUM, Baum On Books, WHSU
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Such a Bad Influence
by Olivia Muenter
For fans of Ashley Winstead, Jessica Knoll, and Jo Piazza, an electric debut thriller about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age grows up . . . and goes missing.
“A smart and intelligent thriller that is a not-to-be-missed page-turner. Buy multiples because this one has the making of a big best seller.”—Library Journal, starred review
“Timely, riveting. . . . This story is as addictive as scrolling Instagram, and marks the launch of a talented new writer.”—Ashley Winstead, author of Midnight Is the Darkest Hour
Crimson Fall: A Ronny & Jo Mystery
by Tara Dee
CRIMSON FALL is the first book in the exciting new Ronny & Jo Mystery Series. A search for a missing 26-year-old sends Aniruddha Jha and Joyita Roy—Ronny & Jo—into the underbelly of IT businesses in Washington, D.C., and the private lives of vulnerable Indian tech workers.
The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
by Michael Wolraich
"The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye and a novelist's elegance to this story of Jazz Age New York."—New York Times
This captivating narrative by journalist Wolraich (author of Unreasonable Men) delves into the world of mobsters and wrongdoing in 1930s Manhattan, focusing on the homicide of actor Vivian Gordon.
The Goldie Standard
by Simi Monheit
"A hilarious saga of family renewal and last-chance romance that plucks the heartstrings.—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Maxie needs a husband according to her grandmother Goldie. But not just any husband...
Hilarious and surprising, this unapologetically Jewish story delivers a present-day take on a highly creative grandmother trying to find her Ph.D granddaughter a husband who is a doctor—with a yarmulke, of course.
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
by Alex Hortis
Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation's debut media circus.
Historian Hortis (author of The Mob and the City) delves into the case of Polly Bodine (1810–1892), who was accused of killing her sister-in-law and infant niece.
"In this excellent work of true crime... Hortis's historical detail makes the episode come to life, and he successfully evokes contemporary tabloid scandals like the Amanda Knox trial. Fans of Daniel Stashower will love this."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
A Good Happy Girl: A Novel
by Marissa Higgins
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple, for readers of Kristen Arnett and Melissa Broder
In Higgins’s striking and visceral debut, a 30-something woman copes with her childhood trauma by nursing a cough syrup addiction and fostering a masochistic relationship with a lesbian couple....
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