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The Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition is open to self-published, independently published, and small press books in nearly every genre. One book will take home our top honor, with finalists, longlisted titles, and notable books featured in the December/January awards issue of Shelf Unbound.
The deadline is September 30. Don’t miss your chance to get your book in front of our editors and readers.
A fast-moving supernatural adventure of desert firefights, ancient vaults, and a hero who can’t catch a break.
Animals go mad and men die at a slaughterhouse in rural Brazil. Translated by Zoë Perry.
The International Booker–winning novel of food, friendship, and colonial blind spots, translated by Lin King.
An International Booker–longlisted thriller set over one day in a remote French hamlet. Translated by Daniel Levin Becker.
A genre-defying portrait of Mexican writer Elena Garro, translated by Christina MacSweeney.
After seven years in prison, a translator returns to a Cairo he no longer recognizes. Translated by Robin Moger.
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