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.

born in rio

Born in Rio

★★★★☆ 

Rita Ray is uprooted by her mother, Maia, from their home in Brazil for a new life in Florida. She works hard and becomes a successful banker in New York but seldom dates and keeps everyone at a distance, until the day she gets a call informing her that her mother is dying from cancer. Rita rushes to the hospital, anxious to make up for her fifteen years of absence. The reunion is not to be.  Read On »

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essential

Essential Nourishment

★★★½☆ 

Visually stunning and packed full of mouthwatering recipes, Essential Nourishment puts the emphasis on an appreciation for the sensual pleasures of natural foods with a sensible approach to nourishment.  Read On »

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since 1959

Since 1959: An Eight Year-old’s Initiation into the World of Cleveland Indians Baseball and Life in the Fifties

★★☆☆☆ 

The book follows the fortunes of the Cleveland Indians baseball team in their 1959 pennant race. It opens with eight-year old Andy rising at 5:30AM to retrieve the newspaper (and milk delivered to the door step) and read the “Cleveland Indians starting line up for the 1959 baseball season opener.”  Read On »

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ladies

Ladies of the Borobudur

★★★½☆ 

Barbara Haines Howett’s eleven interlinked stories take us into the lives of ex-pat women in Indonesia in the early 1970s. There are two worlds to explore here: colorful Indonesia and the claustrophobic world of corporate wives–before feminism made its mark.  Read On »

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milkshake

Milkshake

★★★★☆ 

Milkshake is a funny and insightful look at the issues of new motherhood and an eyebrow-raising spoof on political causes run amok.  Read On »

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Walmart

Wal-Mart’s Egonomics Always

★★★★½ 

The tale of how ADDvantage Media Group, Inc, (AMG) a vendor of shopping cart calculators, partnered with Wal-Mart and were systematically destroyed by the corporate mega-store through continual mishandlings, turnovers in high level associates who were working on the accounts and an overall attitude of greed and deception.  Read On »

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the black stone

The Black Stone Prophecy

★★★☆☆ 

Alex Baj’s Young Adult Fantasy novel The Black Stone Prophecy is the first in a series centered around 12 year old Tom O’Malley and the magical realm of Nyi.  Read On »

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when comes

When Comes What Darkly Thieves

★★★★★ 

Ben Rubin’s dark fairytale, When Comes What Darkly Thieves, weaves a story of poetic strangeness.

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Superman’s Cape

★★★★★ 

A spellbinding story of Sara Connely, a mother of two boys, who is rebuilding their lives after her husband was brutally murdered six months earlier. It is also the story of Jacob Hanson, a weatherman with a gift of sight, who is drawn into Sara’s life when Kyle, Sara’s eldest son gets lost in the woods just as a devastating hurricane is about to hit the town.  Read On »

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damian's oracle

Damian’s Oracle

★★★☆☆ 

An intricate tale, starring a humdrum suburban young professional named Sofia who courageously, if a bit too effortlessly, faces the gravitas of her inescapable destiny: she transforms into an Oracle, (an immortal clairvoyant).  Read On »

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