Most Anticipated Indie Books of Fall

While the temperatures are getting cooler as fall approaches, these upcoming books are coming in hot! From epic historical fiction to sweeping romantic novels, don’t be surprised if these 12 most-anticipated indie reads wind up in your cart this fall!

 

East of Troost by Ellen Barker

In her touching and powerful debut novel, Ellen Barker explores universal themes fear, courage, hatred, and compassion, all in the form of a starting-over story. Barker’s fictional narrator has moved back to her childhood home to do some soul-searching and is met with a neighborhood that has changed drastically during her time away. Now she must navigate her adult life with the support of people from her community, revealing glimpses of Barker’s own life as teenager growing up in the sixties.

Call Me When You’re Dead by A.R. Taylor

When something bad happens to Eleanor Birch’s fabulous friend, Sasha Cole, Eleanor is forced to become an entirely different person to enact her vengeance. But when her prey becomes her ally, and eventually her lover, her journey become a tragicomedy–but one with very serious consequences.

Buck’s Pantry by Khristin Wierman

In a small town in Texas, the lives of three women converge. Gillian, the former prom queen, is now a mom of three children whose schedules she must juggle; Lianna is a foul-mouthed, superstar banker from the East Coast; and Aimee is a low-level worker who has much more to offer than her current life will allow. When Gillian and Lianna find themselves in an unthinkable situation while visiting the same convenience store, Aimee may be their only hope.

The Last Huntress by Lenore Borja

In a world where another realm exists just beyond the glass of a mirror, a select few are chosen to fight the evil within that realm and keep it at bay. When Alice Daniels’ own reflection begins to misbehave, she learns that she is one of those few–a huntress gifted with the power to move between the realms. With the help of her three huntress sisters and the handsome protector she’s desperately trying not to fall for, they must hunt down and destroy each demon before they have a chance to overrun their world. However, the Mirror Realm is much more than meets the eye and Alice soon learns this when a visit from an ancient god turns deadly. Alice and her huntress sisters find themselves in a race against a ticking clock to save their world–and the life of the man that has always remained just beyond her reach.

Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss

A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year, Lungfish is a poignant and daring story of a young woman desperate to care for her family amidst distressing circumstances. Squatting in her deceased grandmother’s island home, Tuck must care for her spirited young daughter, navigate her husband’s withdrawal symptoms, and somehow scrape together enough money for the family to leave before winter comes–or before they’re found out. 

The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving

In this intricate and powerful collection, Dionne Irving explores the complex nature of assimilation and immigration through the eyes of Jamaican women all over the world. Set in times and places ranging from the 1950s London, to1960s Panama, all the way to modern-day New Jersey, Irving’s stories examine the lives of this unsettled cast of characters and examines how their escape from the colonialism of the Island has left them restless and disconnected.

Lost Souls of Leningrad by Suzanne Parry

It’s June of 1941 and Hitler’s army has surrounded Leningrad, launching a brutal and vicious attack. Inside the city, widowed violinist Sofya Karavayeva and her teenage granddaughter Yelena are cornered, struggling to survive. But with the help of Admiral Vasili Antonov and Yelena’s soldier fiancé, the two women inch towards survival. This sweeping historical fiction novel follows the lives of two remarkable women and their devotion both to each other and the men they love despite their harrowing circumstances.

What A Trip by Susen Edwards

This fast-paced coming-of-age story follows Fiona, an art student at a New Jersey college, as she navigates living in the era of the Vietnam War–the rock and roll culture, the draft, and the harsh realities of war. As Fiona struggles to find herself through this tumultuous time, she falls in love with Reuben, a journalism major and political activist. But when Reuben asks her to move to Canada with him to avoid the draft, Fiona must figure out what decision is best for her, her artistic career, and her own aspirations for her future.

Attribution by Linda Moore

When art historian Cate Adamson is assigned to an impossible-to-please sexist advisor as an aspiring doctorate, she is desperate to impress him. That is, until she stumbles upon a hidden painting that could be worth a fortune, possibly a Baroque masterpiece. Risking everything she’s worked for, Cate flees to Spain with the painting in tow in order to consult art experts. There she meets Antonio, an impoverished duke who joins her in her search for answers. Together, they uncover clues and evidence that could very well turn the art history world on its head–as well as destroy Cate’s future as an art historian and her future with Antonio.

Things We Found When the Water Went Down by Tegan Nia Swanson

When a miner by the name of Hugo Mitchum is found dead by the town lake, the local authorities and town gossips are quick to place the blame on Marietta Abernathy, an outspoken environmentalist and recluse. But she is nowhere to be found. In an attempt to find her, Marietta’s 16-year-old daughter Lena begins looking through her belongings. While there are many people affected by Marietta’s disappearance, only one stands to lose everything if Lena can’t find her mother–the town outcast, Ellis Olsen.

‘Til All These Things Be Done by Suzanne Moyers

Even with dementia clouding her memories, eighty-three-year-old Leola remembers vividly the disappearance of her father when she was sixteen. Following the mysterious disappearance of her father and the untimely death of her mother from the influenza outbreak of 1919, teenaged Leola and her young sisters are sent to an orphanage where her father’s whereabouts become even more shrouded in mystery and the echo of betrayal. Only now, in her old age and as visions of her father become increasingly realistic, does Leola confront her past, leading to a remarkable discovery that could finally offer her peace.

The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar

Over a century after a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia to Central Asia where their leader predicted the return of Christ, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fueled by her curiosity of what came after their journey–the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate of Kiva that lasted fifty years. Along her journey, Sofia discovers a whole cast of characters and topics that lead her to reflect on her own life and upbringing, exploring the ever-changing idea of identity.

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