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Top 10 Summer 2014 Indie Next List for Reading Groups

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Top 10 Summer 2014 Indie Next List for Reading Groups

The biannual Indie Next List for Reading Groups is the most requested of any printed list that the American Booksellers Association produces. For your convenience, we've compiled their top 10 book group picks for Summer 2014 here.

In addition to booksellers’ Top 10 favorites, the list presents titles in seven discussion-starting categories: Exciting New Voices, Memorable Memoirs, New Works From Old Favorites, Unconventional Delights, Familiar Faces Fictionalized, Engrossing Nonfiction and Compelling Tales Well Told. To see the list in its entirety, click here.

1. ORDINARY GRACE by William Kent Krueger

2. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

3. BENEDICTION by Kent Haruf

4. LIFE AFTER LIFE by Kate Atkinson

5. GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn

6. A PLACE AT THE TABLE by Susan Rebecca White

7. THE TELLING ROOM: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese by Michael Paterniti

8. THE ROSIE PROJECT by Graeme Simsion

9. THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd

10. LIFE AFTER LIFE by Jill McCorkle