Indie Bound Next List May 2014

The Steady Running of the Hour

A Novel, by Justin Go (Simon & Schuster, 9781476704586, $26)

Recommended by Nicola Rooney, Nicola’s Books, Ann Arbor, MI

The Orenda

A Novel, by Joseph Boyden (Knopf, 9780385350730, $26.95)

Recommended by Sam Kaas, Village Books, Bellingham, WA

The Serpent of Venice

A Novel, by Christopher Moore (William Morrow, 9780061779763, $26.99)

Recommended by Carol Schneck Varner, Schuler Books & Music, Okemos, MI

Ruby

A Novel, by Cynthia Bond (Hogarth, 9780804139090, $25)

Recommended by Alice Meloy, Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston, TX

Troika

A Novel, by Adam Pelzman (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 9780399167485, $25.95)

Recommended by Stephanie Crowe, Page & Palette, Fairhope, AL

Wonderland

A Novel, by Stacey D’Erasmo (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9780544074811, $22)

Recommended by Josh Christie, Sherman’s Books & Stationery, Bar Harbor, ME

All the Birds, Singing

A Novel, by Evie Wyld (Pantheon, 9780307907769, $24.95)

Recommended by Carin Pratt, Norwich Bookstore, Norwich, VT

A Novel, by Francine Prose (Harper, 9780061713781, $26.99)

Recommended by Elaine Petrocelli, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA

Ruin Falls

A Novel, by Jenny Milchman (Ballantine, 9780345549075, $26)

Recommended by Linda Dewberry, Whodunit? Books, Olympia, WA

The Sea Inside

by Philip Hoare (Melville House, 9781612193595, $27.99)

Recommended by Brian Boecki, Between the Covers, Harbor Springs, MI

Between Wrecks

by George Singleton (Dzanc Books, 9781938103797, paper, $15.95)

Recommended by Julie Wernersbach, BookPeople, Austin, TX

The Bees

A Novel, by Laline Paull (Ecco, 9780062331151, $25.99)

Recommended by Flannery Fitch, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Point of Direction

A Novel, by Rachel Weaver (Ig Publishing, 9781935439912, paper, $16.95)

Recommended by Terry Gilman, Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, San Diego, CA

My Accidental Jihad

A Love Story, by Krista Bremer (Algonquin, 9781616200688, $24.95)

Recommended by Annie Jones, The Bookshelf, Thomasville, GA

The Cold Song

by Linn Ullmann

(Other Press, 9781590516676, paper, $15.95)

Recommended by Jenny Patiño Cervantes, City Lit Books, Chicago, IL

The Garden of Burning Sand

by Corban Addison (Quercus, 9781623651299, $26.99)

Recommended by Ed Conklin, Chaucer’s Books, Santa Barbara, CA

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

A Memoir, by Roz Chast (Bloomsbury, 9781608198061, $28)

Recommended by Darwin Ellis, Books on the Common, Ridgefield, CT

The Other Story

A Novel, by Tatiana De Rosnay (St. Martin’s Press, 9781250045133, $26.99)

Recommended by Jean-Paul Adriaansen, Water Street Books, Exeter, NH