2026 Indie Book Awards Shortlist Read-Alikes

SHORTLISTED - ABIA GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026From the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and Darling Girls comes the story of Mad Mabel. They called it murder. She called ... Read more

Martin Scarsden flees an assassination attempt but lands in even more trouble with a deadly family feud leaving him at death's door in Chris Hammer's next blockbuster crime novel.Martin Scarsden is... Read more

For readers who love The Midnight Library and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, here comes your next favourite life-affirming, delightful and funny novel, The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains.Al... Read more

An unputdownable crime thriller featuring Detective Antigone Pollard from the bestselling author of The Unbelieved.Detective Antigone Pollard is fearless. Armed with a trained police dog, a black b... Read more

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister and The Mother-in-Law with new novel Darling Girls out now. 'Endlessly mysterious. Sally Hepworth is a born storyteller' - Trent Dalton... Read more

'This book is bloody brilliant'V.E. Schwab 'A ripping read'Joe Abercrombie The SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES bestseller from the award-winning author of the Nevernight Chronicle It has been twent... Read more

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Younger Wife and The Mother-in-Law with new novel Darling Girls out now. Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sis... Read more

'... a book that can't be put down.' Toowoomba Chronicle'[FitzSimons] knows how to make words race like eager sled dogs on their homeward run.' Newcastle HeraldThe Shipwreck of the Batavia combines... Read more

Eskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness: "A magnificently realized story" (New York Times Book Review). Ordinary Wolves de... Read more

Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot is a propulsive listen about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promisi... Read more

INDIE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER 2022"So damn good" Jeff VanderMeer, NYT bestselling author"Changes you as you read." Laurie Frankel, NYT bestselling author"This is a stunner." Publisher... Read more

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people ... Larson tells the story of h... Read more

What would you do if you thought each day on earth might just be your last?Lucky by name. Not so lucky by nature.Adopted twins Nora and Stevie Lucky have always been close, despite being total oppo... Read more

The elite are always heretics when it suits them. Mila's time is up. After years spent hiding, she's been caught by the Church, accused of being a demon, and offered as sacrifice to the all-powerf... Read more

High on a hill above the small Victorian town of Carrabeen, 300 wind turbines constantly spin. Except one is now deadly still - a body hanging from its huge white blade.Detective Sergeants Belinda ... Read more

Author of the bestselling and much-loved At the Foot of the Cherry Tree, Alli Parker, returns with another engrossing and moving novel of courage and conviction, Until the Red Leaves Fall. Emmy Dar... Read more

From the bestselling award-winning author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this rollicking historical adventure that celebrates the art of whisky distilling, the defiant spirit of the Scottish Highla... Read more

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKThe New York Times 'Best Books of the Year (So Far)'A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in a deeply moving novel of love, faith and survival, for readers o... Read more