IndieReader Library

Welcome to The IndieReader Library.

All included titles have been professionally reviewed by IR Staff. And while we realize that people’s responses to books are subjective, we can guarantee that what’s written will be less biased than an opinion dashed off by an author’s favorite Aunt Sally (or, conversely, someone who just doesn’t like the book cover).

We rate titles from one to five stars, with five stars indicating “you better put down the latte, get out your credit card and order this right now.”

Our selection includes both eBooks (Kindle and Nook) and the good old-fashioned paper version–from art to business, romance to kids, memoir to chick-lit, young adults to biography.

When you find a book that you’d like to take home, you can click at the bottom of the book’s review page and purchase it via a sales link.

We encourage you to give IR titles a spin, and think you’ll find that indie books are like a certain brand of potato chip…it’s hard to stop at just one. And with new titles added daily, you won’t have to!

One star = Really bad; there’s a reason this book is self-pubbed.

Two stars = Mediocre, but one or two bright spots.

Three stars = Good; worth reading.

Four stars = Very good.

Five stars = Excellent; must-read.

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Then Like the Blind Man: Orbie’s Story

★★★★½ 

Orbie is a nine-year-old whose father died in a tragic incident at the steel mill where he worked, an incident blamed on a black worker’s carelessness.  Read On »

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The Hangman’s Replacement:Sprout of Disruption

★★★★★ 

The last hangman in Zimbabwe retired in 2004, but since the death penalty seemed on the verge of abolition, there was no real effort to hire a new one.  Read On »

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Fast Food Vindication

★★★★☆ 

Lisa Tilinger Johansen, a former McDonald’s Corporation real-estate-executive-turned-Registered-Dietician, is out to balance the bad rap that the fast food restaurants have received from books like Fast Food Nation and Supersize Me with bite-sized portions of common sense advice about nutrition, food and eating choices.  Read On »

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robyn's

Robyn’s Egg: A Futuristic Thriller

★★★★☆ 

At an unspecified time in the future, big business controls nearly all aspects of civilized life. From clothing that displays ads based on nearby consumers to food production that comes from only one company, escaping the vice of control is nearly impossible.  Read On »

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a gender

A Gender Neutral God/ess

★★★★☆ 

A Gender Neutral God/ess is primarily a book about linguistics, religion and history, and the use of gendered words to describe Deity.  Read On »

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alabama

Alabama Stories

★★★★★ 

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.  Read On »

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Americashire

Americashire

★★★★½ 

Americashire is the story of an American woman married to a British man, who is persuaded to move to her husband’s country and finally ends up settling in a peaceful (but eccentrically British) village in the Cotswolds.  Read On »

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Imperfect Pairings

★★★★★ 

The mystery, beauty and complexities of culture, family and love are revealed through the relationship between a seemingly mismatched American woman and an Italian man.  Read On »

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Repeaters

★★★★☆ 

The premise of Repeaters is that those who die by violence, and those incapable of love, are cursed to return in new bodies, reincarnated to live new lives until they learn the lessons of the past.
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Tainted

Tainted Love

★★★★☆ 

While visiting her parents in California, Isabel rekindles her relationship with Tom Stevens, with whom she began a love affair when she was just a fifteen-year-old high school student.  Read On »

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