Indies Choice Book Awards
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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. The winners are announced in conjunction with The E.B. White Read Aloud Award
Award winners and honor books[]
| Year | Category | Title | Author | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016[1] | Adult Fiction | Fates and Furies: A Novel | Lauren Groff | Winner |
| City on Fire: A Novel | Garth Risk Hallberg | Honor | ||
| Get in Trouble: Stories | Kelly Link | |||
| A Little Life: A Novel | Hanya Yanagihara | |||
| The Sympathizer: A Novel | Viet Thanh Nguyen | |||
| : A Novel | ||||
| Adult Nonfiction | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Winner | |
| Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania | Erik Larson | Honor | ||
| Giving Up Vic Chesnutt | Kristin Hersh | |||
| H Is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald | |||
| Sally Mann | ||||
| Marie Mutsuki Mockett | ||||
| Adult Debut | Kitchens of the Great Midwest: A Novel | Winner | ||
| : Confessions of a Comma Queen | Mary Norris | Honor | ||
| Dragonfish: A Novel | Vu Tran | |||
| The Meursault Investigation: A Novel | Kamel Daoud | |||
| Our Endless Numbered Days: A Novel | Claire Fuller | |||
| The Turner House: A Novel | Angela Flournoy | |||
| Young Adult | Anna and the Swallow Man | Gavriel Savit | Winner | |
| Nimona | ND Stevenson | |||
| Julie Murphy | Honor | |||
| Adam Silvera | ||||
| Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | |||
| : Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad | M.T. Anderson | |||
| Indie Champion | Richard Russo | Winner | ||
| Dave Eggers | Honor | |||
| Louise Erdrich | ||||
| Loren Long | ||||
| Celeste Ng | ||||
| Maggie Stiefvater | ||||
| 2015 | Adult Fiction | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | Winner |
| Adult Nonfuction | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande | ||
| Adult Debut | The Martian | Andy Weir | ||
| Young Adult | The Darkest Part of the Forest | Holly Black | ||
| Indie Champion | Neil Gaiman | |||
| Amanda Palmer | ||||
| 2014[2][3] | Adult Fiction | Life After Life | Kate Atkinson | |
| Adult Nonfiction | The Boys in the Boat | Daniel James Brown | ||
| Adult Debut | A Constellation of Vital Phenomena | Anthony Marra | ||
| Young Adult | Eleanor & Park | Rainbow Rowell | ||
| Indie Champion | James Patterson | |||
| 2013[4][5] | Adult Fiction | The Round House | Louise Erdrich | |
| Adult Nonfiction | Wild | Cheryl Strayed | ||
| 2012[6][7] | Adult Fiction | The Marriage Plot | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| Adult Nonfiction | Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef | Gabrielle Hamilton | ||
| Adult Debut | The Tiger’s Wife | Téa Obreht | ||
| Young Adult | Between Shades of Gray | Ruta Sepetys | ||
| Most Engaging Author | Ann Patchett | |||
| Middle Reader | The Apothecary | Maile Meloy and Ian Schoenherr (Illus.) | ||
| Middle Reader | Wildwood | Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis (Illus.) | ||
| Picture Book | I Want My Hat Back | Jon Klassen | ||
| 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 | Brian Lies | |||
| Most Engaging Author | Sherman Alexie | |||
| 2008 | Adult Fiction | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Winner |
| The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Michael Chabon | Honor | ||
| Bridge of Sighs | Richard Russo | |||
| Away | Amy Bloom | |||
| Run | Ann Patchett | |||
| Adult Nonfiction | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life | Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver | Winner | |
| The World Without Us | Alan Weisman | Honor | ||
| Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life | Steve Martin | |||
| The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War | David Halberstam | |||
| The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible | A.J. Jacobs | |||
| Children's Literature | The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick | Winner | |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Sherman Alexie | Honor | ||
| Eclipse | Stephenie Meyer | |||
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney | |||
| The Arrival | Shaun Tan | |||
| Children's Illustrated | Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity | Mo Willems | Winner | |
| Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss-Glasser (Illus.) | Honor | |||
| Melinda Long and David Shannon (Illus.) | ||||
| The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Peter Sis | |||
| Anna Dewdney | ||||
| 2007 | Adult Fiction | Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | Winner |
| The Brief History of the Dead | Kevin Brockmeier | Honor | ||
| The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | |||
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | |||
| Suite Francaise | Irène Némirovsky | |||
| Adult Nonfiction | I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman | Nora Ephron | Winner | |
| The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid | Bill Bryson | Honor | ||
| Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War | Nathaniel Philbrick | |||
| Erik Larson | ||||
| The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | Timothy Egan | |||
| Children's Literature | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Winner | |
| The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party | M.T. Anderson | Honor | ||
| Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! | Lynne Truss | |||
| New Moon | Stephenie Meyer | |||
| Peter and the Shadow Thieves | Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson | |||
| Children's Illustrated | Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship | Paul Kahumbu, and | Winner | |
| Fancy Nancy | Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser (illus.) | Honor | ||
| Flotsam | David Wiesner | |||
| Library Lion | Michelle Knudsen and Kevin Hawkes (illus.) | |||
| Pirateology: A Pirate Hunter's Companion | Captain William Lubber and Nghiem Ta (designer) | |||
| 2006 | Adult Fiction | Elizabeth Kostova | Winner | |
| Kafka on the Shore: A Novel | Haruki Murakami | Honor | ||
| The March: A Novel | E.L. Doctorow | |||
| Saturday: A Novel | Ian McEwan | |||
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel | Lisa See | |||
| Adult Nonfiction | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | Winner | |
| The Glass Castle: A Memoir | Jeannette Walls | Honor | ||
| The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece | Jonathan Harr | |||
| Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog | John Grogan | |||
| The Tender Bar: A Memoir | J.R. Moehringer | |||
| Children's Literature | Inkspell | Cornelia Funke | Winner | |
| A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray | Ann M. Martin | Honor | ||
| Eldest: Inheritance, Book 2 | Christopher Paolini | |||
| Flush | Carl Hiaasen | |||
| The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy | Jeanne Birdsall | |||
| Children's Illustrated | Zen Shorts | Jon J Muth | Winner | |
| Diary of a Spider | Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss (Illus.) | Honor | ||
| Leaf Man | Lois Ehlert | |||
| Leonardo, the Terrible Monster | Mo Willems | |||
| Seen Art? | Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Illus.) | |||
| 2005 | Adult Fiction | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Susanna Clarke | Winner |
| Kent Haruf | Honor | |||
| The Birth of Venus | Sarah Dunant | |||
| The Plot Against America | Philip Roth | |||
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | |||
| Adult Nonfiction | Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II | Robert Kurson | Winner | |
| Candyfreak | Steve Almond | Honor | ||
| The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker | Robert Mankoff (ed.) | |||
| Magical Thinking | Augusten Burroughs | |||
| Ann Patchett | ||||
| Children's Literature | Chasing Vermeer | Blue Balliett and Brett Helquist (Illus.) | Winner | |
| Becoming Naomi Leon | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Honor | ||
| Katherine Hannigan | ||||
| Peter and the Starcatchers | Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson | |||
| The Sea of Trolls | Nancy Farmer | |||
| Children's Illustrated | Duck for President | Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin (Illus.) | Winner | |
| Kitten's First Full Moon | Kevin Henkes | Honor | ||
| Knuffle Bunny | Mo Willems | |||
| Eric Carle | ||||
| 2004 | Adult Fiction | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | Winner |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | Honor | ||
| The Master Butchers Singing Club | Louise Erdrich | |||
| Mrs. Kimble | Jennifer Haigh | |||
| The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | |||
| Adult Nonfiction | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books | Azar Nafisi | Winner | |
| The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America | Erik Larson | Honor | ||
| Flyboys: A True Story of Courage | James Bradley | |||
| Ross King | ||||
| Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder | |||
| Children's Literature | Eragon: The Inheritance, Book I | Christopher Paolini | Winner | |
| Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code | Eoin Colfer | Honor | ||
| Inkheart | Cornelia Funke | |||
| The Second Summer of the Sisterhood | Ann Brashares | |||
| The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo and Timothy Basil Ering (illus.) | |||
| Children's Illustrated | Melinda Long and David Shannon (illus.) | Winner | ||
| Diary of a Wombat | Jackie French and Bruce Whatley (illus.) | Honor | ||
| Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss (illus.) | ||||
| Douglas Wood and Jon J. Muth (illus.) | ||||
| Ian Falconer | ||||
| Paperback | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | Winner | |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | Honor | ||
| The Dive From Clausen's Pier | Ann Packer | |||
| Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal | Christopher Moore | |||
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
Picture Book Hall of Fame[]
| Year
Inducted |
Title | Author | Illustrator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016[1] | Eloise | Kay Thompson | Hilary Knight |
| Olivia | Ian Falconer | ||
| Strega Nona | Tomi dePaola | ||
| Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | William Stieg | ||
| 2015 | Frog and Toad | Arnold Lobel | |
| Blueberries for Sal | Robert McCloskey | ||
| If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | Laura Numeroff | Felicia Bond | |
| 2014 | Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? | Bill Martin, Jr. | Eric Carle |
| Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | Clement Hurd | |
| Stellaluna | Janell Cannon | ||
| 2013 | Caps for Sale | Esphyr Slobokina | |
| Harold and the Purple Crayon | Crockett Johnson | ||
| The True Story of the Three Little Pigs | Jon Scieszka | Lane Smith | |
| 2012 | Curious George | H.A. Rey | |
| The Little Engine That Could | Watty Piper | ||
| Miss Rumphius | Barbara Cooney |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b "2016 Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud Award Winners Announced". American Booksellers Association. 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
- ^ "2014 Indies Choice, E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards Finalists". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
- ^ "ABA Announces 2014 Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud Award Winners". the American Booksellers Association. 2014-04-15. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
- ^ "Announcing the 2013 Indies Choice and E.B. White Award Winners". the American Booksellers Association. 2013-04-17. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
- ^ "2013 Indies Choice and E.B. White Award Winners Announced". Writers Write. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
- ^ "Winners of the 2012 Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards Announced". the American Booksellers Association. 2012-04-04. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
- ^ "2012 Indies Choice and E.B. White Book Award Finalists Announced". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
External links[]
- Indies Choice Book Awards, official website.
- Book Sense Book of the Year, official website.
Categories:
- American literary awards
- Awards established in 2009