The best indie reads of the moment? We've hand-picked our favorite dozen.
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The Correspondence Artist
The romantic adventures of a writer, her gender- and identity-shifting paramour, and a nefarious spam filter.

The Still Point
Language to savor; love to contemplate. Long-listed for the 2010 Orange Prize.

Enough About Love
"Middle-aged romance has rarely seemed so intriguing." -- Booklist


Pacazo
"Kesey strides up alongside Graham Greene, melding intrigue, religion, and exotica into a story as edifying as it is entertaining." -- Ron Currie, Jr.

A Geography of Secrets
"Intellectually satisfying, morally serious, and, just as important, compulsively readable." -- Gary Krist

Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles
Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and a Shelf Unbound Top 10 of 2010 -- "a Pop Noir masterpiece."


The Samaritan
"Gives those of us who love well-crafted offbeat literature a reason to cheer." -- Shelf Unbound

The Selected Stories of Merce Rodoreda
Rodoreda (1908-1983) is "a brilliant composer of interiors, both physical and mental." -- Natasha Wimmer

The Report
"... a kaleidoscopic examination of crowds, of disasters, of reverberations and reckoning. I was absolutely riveted." -- Anthony Doerr


If You Lived Here You\'d Be Home Already
Anyone who can write a tender story about a model with a barnacle attached to her butt has got our vote.

Otherwise Elsewhere
"... fast-paced, irregular, and superbly assembled free verse." -- Publishers Weekly

Annabel
Giller Prize Finalist novel exploring gender and identity, community and isolation. Just made the Orange Prize long list.