Best Indie Books of Fall

Looking to support some new indie book releases of the fall season? We’ve got you covered! Here you will find the best of the best indie books releasing this fall. From captivating women’s fiction to moving and inspiring memoirs there is something for everyone! 

Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom

10-year-old Aggie has grown up learning the ways of the woods. When her unpredictable mother forbids her from climbing the trees that have given her a sense of comfort for her entire life, Aggie starts a fire by mistake and flees the scene in a boat. She claims the creatures in the woods have always been her only friends, and she doesn’t want to be found, ever. When two men join the search party for Aggie, there is a problem – one of them is dangerous.

The Sensitive One by Susan Frances Morris

Susan Morris’ world is turned upside down when she is diagnosed with breast cancer at age 50. Determined to find out what caused this diagnosis, she does research and is even more shocked when she reads that long-term childhood trauma can increase chances of contracting breast cancer. The Sensitive One is a story of Susan’s childhood and present life, filled with ups and downs.

Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu

When a child is born with blue skin, his family begins to make a living off of people who want to seek the child’s magical blessings and miracles. At the age of 10, the boy proves his divine status and his father says this will spread his fame worldwide. Over the next 10 years of his life, his family starts to fall apart. The boy loses everything he has ever known, and makes his way from India to the underground rock scene of New York City.

 

Paper Airplanes by Tabitha Forney

Summer 2001 is wrapping up and Erin O’Connor has the life she’s always dreamed of, the perfect husband, job and home in Manhattan. Her husband works on the 101st floor of the World Trade Center. Erin is enjoying the drinks with her best friend when she gets the news that a plane has struck her husband’s work building. She rushes back to the city and plasters missing person signs everywhere, in desperate search of her husband. There is no sign of him, anywhere. After she comes to terms with his death, it’s time for her to rebuild her own life, will she be able to rebuild her life?

The Good Widow by Jennifer Katz

This memoir explores how a young widow navigates her new life after her loving spouse of 18 years passes away. A new single-mom, Jenny tries to make holidays special but it somehow always feels like a piece of the puzzle is missing with Tris gone. After some time, Jenny looks for a new love and endures countless awkward first dates until she finds someone different. 

The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May

Katherine May, who recently had the realization that she might be autistic, decides to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path and dig deep within herself to find out why motherhood has been so overwhelming to her, why she has stopped coping and why she felt like she was always falling short in life. Through her journey, she begins to feel a reawakening within herself and come to terms with her diagnosis, allowing herself to feel like she belongs again.

Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash by Tammy Pasterick

It is 1910 and Eastern European immigrants Janos and Karina Kovac have arrived in Pittsburgh, but their American dream is fading rapidly. Karina is excited about her new job until she is understands that she will not only be a housekeeper, but also a mistress. Karina finds out she is going to lose her job on the same day Janos witnesses a horrific accident at his furnace and the two begin to unravel. Karina, panicked, becomes unhinged and gets her children all tangles up in her mess. Janos must now rebuild his family with an unexpected source of help.

 

Cold Snap by Codi Schneider

Gray Birch is a remote village in the Colorado Mountains – and outsiders are not welcome. The village is home to a cat named Bijou. Bijou is not a regular cat, she has fighting in her blood, coming from her ancestors. Bijou ignores this though. She runs the Fox Burrow Pet Inn with her human, Spencer and her assistant, Skunk, a Pomeranian. The trio have created a safe space for all of their four-legged friends. When Eddy, a man from California, and his piglet and pit bull puppy arrive, everything changes. Spencer and Eddy fall in love, and Bijou is not happy with the new changes in her life. The people of the village are not welcoming of Eddy, either. When an unexpected murder/dognapping occurs, Bijou will have to tap in to her ancestral ability to fight.

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo

Anna is beginning to wonder who she really is. Her daughter is all grown up, she is separated from her husband, and the only parent she ever had, her mother, is dead. Anna finds clues about her father when she is looking through her mother’s belongings one day. She discovers that her father was involved in radical politics in London in the 1970s. She also discovers that he was once president, or dictator, of a small nation in West Africa, and he is still alive. As Anna goes on a search for her biological father, she uncovers family secrets she never could have imagined and begins to question everything she has ever known. 

He Gets That From Me by Jacqueline Friedland

Maggie Fisher’s job at the checkout counter in Downtown Phoenix isn’t working out for her as she is a young mother with a live-in boyfriend. She always dreamt of going to college and becoming a teacher, but those dreams were destroyed when she moved out of her parents’ house at a young age. To earn some extra cash, Maggie decides to become a gestational carrier for a married couple in New York. Maggie is able to turn her life around after delivering twin babies and handing them over to the parents. She goes to college, gets a great job and builds her own family. Her world is turned upside down when she gets a call from the fertility clinic ten years later, asking for a DNA test.

Unknown Assailant by J.L. Doucette

Detective Beau Antelope and Dr. Pepper Hunt team up in the small town of Farson, Wyoming to investigate the murder/suicide in a prominent family. As they dig into what went on in the days leading up to the horrific death, they uncover the darkest secrets of a family that has been touched my trauma for as long as anyone can remember. 

Moon and the Mars by Kia Corthron

Theo is an orphan, living her life between the custody of his Irish and Black grandmothers. As she is raised, she has learned two completely different cultures. Meanwhile, Americas views on slavery and segregation are shifting, and the nation divides and goes to war. Moon and the Mars is a story of culture, abolition and community during the Civil War where love is won and lost.

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