IR：2013最佳自助出版图书

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IR：2013最佳自助出版图书

Every year readers are faced with “best of” lists of books, from outlets ranging from GoodReads to NPR. And every year they all pretty much feature the same titles (“The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt, “And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini, “Inferno” by Dan Brown, “Doctor Sleep” by Stephen King). We’re not saying those books aren’t good, but really, is that all there are? What about the indie titles? The graphic novels and off-beat memoirs, the cool science fiction, fantasy and YA, worlds created and envisioned by one person, the indie author.

Perhaps we’re being overly optimistic but we hope that this time next year a self-pubbed book or two will be included. After all, according to Amazon, eleven of the top 50 titles and 25 of the top 100 adult ebooks first published in 2013 were originally self-published. Kinda makes IndieReader’s tagline, “If you read it here you read it first” all the more prescient.

So get out your gift lists and your Kindles and Kobos, or order them in print.

Presenting IndieReader’s list of the best indie titles of 2013.

Hippie Boy

By Ingrid Ricks

(since signed by Penguin)

A young girl’s coming of age story showing her struggles as she grows up with a religious fanatic mother, a step-father she can’t stand and the man she idealizes – her father.

Shift Omnibus Edition and Dust (Silo Saga)

By Hugh Howey

SHIFT is the sequel (or prequel, or alternate perspective) to WOOL. Like that series, SHIFT is set (partly) in a post-apocalyptic future where humans live in underground silos, protected from a toxic world outside, governed by the Pact that tells them the rules of living.

DUST is the conclusion to the series–beginning with WOOL and continuing with SHIFT– concerning silo dwellers in a post-apocalyptic United States.

Walk Me Home

By Catherine Ryan Hyde (author of trad pubbed title, Pay it Forward)

Set against the backdrop of the American Southwest, Walk Me Home and its resilient heroines will inspire readers and renew their faith in recovery and redemption.

2084

By Mark Sroufe

Sleek, stylish, realistic and ominous, “2084″ is an Orwellian world on steroids.

Spoon and the Moon

By Wickedly Sisters, aka Marie Davis and Margaret Hultz

SPOON and the MOON leaves behind the realm of children’s nursery rhyme becoming a seductive and fanciful tale about protagonists longing for fulfillment and satisfaction in their lives.

Alabama Stories

By John Isaac Jones

Set in Alabama over a period of about forty years beginning in the late 1940s, this exquisite collection of fifteen short stories provides snapshots into the lives of different characters.

The Blind Pig

By Elizabeth Dougherty

The year is 2063 and 40-year-old Angela Anselm is a reporter who writes a nutrition column for a publication called “The Well.”

25 Perfect Days

By Mark Tullius

Say goodbye to the Zombie Apocalypse and take a good look at a far more frightening alternative.

The Seed & Other Fairy Tales

By Joseph Hillenbrand

THE SEED & OTHER FAIRY TALES is a collection of nine original fairy tales. While these stories contain all the traditional elements of fairy tales, Disney this collection is not.

Grade A Baby Eggs (IRDA Winner)

By Victoria Hopewell

Readers will be inspired and entertained by the author’s journey–and by the way she gracefully learns to fully appreciate the gifts that are already hers.

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