Indies Choice Book Awards
The Indies Choice Book Award (formerly known as Book Sense Book of the Year 2000-2008) is an American literary award that was inaugurated at BookExpo America 2000. The American Booksellers Association (ABA) rededicated the award (previously known as the ABBY) in recognition of a new era in bookselling, as well as the important role the Book Sense Picks List has played for independent booksellers in discovering and spreading the word about books of quality to all stores, and readers, nationwide. Throughout the year, Book Sense independent booksellers from across the country nominate for inclusion in the monthly Book Sense Picks the books that they most enjoyed hand-selling to their customers. The books on each list represent a combined national and local staff pick selection of booksellers' favorites from more than 1,200 independent bookstores with Book Sense.
The award was renamed the Indies Choice Book Award in 2009.
Indies Choice Book Award Winners
2012
- Adult Fiction: The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Adult Nonfiction: Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House)
- Adult Debut: The Tiger’s Wife, by Téa Obreht (Random House)
- Young Adult: Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys (Philomel)
- Most Engaging Author: Ann Patchett
- Middle Reader: The Apothecary, by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr (Illus.) (Putnam Juvenile) and Wildwood, by Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.) (Balzer + Bray)
- Picture Book: I Want My Hat Back, by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press)
- Picture Book Hall of Fame Inductees:
- Curious George, by H.A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (Grosset & Dunlap / Philomel)
- Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney (Viking Juvenile/Puffin)
2011
- Adult Fiction: Room, Emma Donoghue
- Adult Nonfiction: Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
- Adult Debut: Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes
- Young Adult: Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly
2010
- Adult Fiction: Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
- Adult Nonfiction: The Lost City of Z, David Grann
- Adult Debut: The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- Young Adult: Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
- Middle Reader: When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
- New Picture Book: The Lion & the Mouse, Jerry Pinkney
- Most Engaging Author: Kate DiCamillo
2009
- Best Indie Buzz Book (Fiction): The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Best Conversation Starter (Nonfiction): The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
- Best Author Discovery: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
- Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book (Fiction): The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
- Best New Picture Book: Bats at the Library, Brian Lies
- Most Engaging Author: Sherman Alexie
Book Sense Book of the Year Winners
- 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
- 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
- 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
- 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
- 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
- 2003 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
- 2002 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
- 2001 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
- 2000 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
References
- Indies Choice Book Awards, official website.
- Book Sense Book of the Year, official website.