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Friday, April 9, 2010

Indies Choice Winners (2009-10)

The 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards Finalists are:  [2010 info from ABA accessed 3/2/10]

BOOK OF THE YEAR -- ADULT FICTION


* Border Songs, by Jim Lynch (Knopf)
* Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin (Scribner)
* The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt (Knopf)
* Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese (Knopf) -- Winner!
* Generosity: An Enhancement, by Richard Powers (FSG)
* Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel (Holt)

BOOK OF THE YEAR -- ADULT NONFICTION
* Animals Make Us Human, by Temple Grandin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* Lit: A Memoir, by Mary Karr (HarperCollins)
* The Lost City of Z, by David Grann (Doubleday) -- Winner!
* Stitches: A Memoir, by David Small (W.W. Norton)
* Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder (Random House)
* When Everything Changed, by Gail Collins (Little, Brown)

BOOK OF THE YEAR -- ADULT DEBUT
* The Earth Hums in B Flat, by Mari Strachan (Canongate)
* The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam) -- Winner!
* The Piano Teacher, by Y.K. Lee (Viking)
* The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, by Reif Larson (Penguin Press)
* Still Alice, by Lisa Genova (Pocket)
* Tinkers, by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press)

BOOK OF THE YEAR -- YOUNG ADULT
* Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) -- Winner!
* Going Bovine, by Libba Bray (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
* If I Stay, by Gayle Forman (Dutton Juvenile)
* Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (illus.) (Simon Pulse)
* Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)
* Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking Juvenile)

BOOK OF THE YEAR -- MIDDLE READER
* Al Capone Shines My Shoes, by Gennifer Choldenko (Dial)
* The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelly (Holt)
* Odd and the Frost Giants, by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
* A Season of Gifts, by Richard Peck (Dial)
* When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books) -- Winner!
* Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin (Little, Brown)

BOOK OF THE YEAR -- NEW PICTURE BOOK
* All the World, by Liz Garton Scanlon, Maria Frazee (illus.) (Beach Lane Books)
* The Curious Garden, by Peter Brown (Little, Brown)
* The Lion and the Mouse, by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown) -- Winner!
* Listen to the Wind, by Greg Mortenson, Susan Roth (illus.) (Dial)
* Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, by Brian Floca (Richard Jackson Books)
* Otis, by Loren Long (Philomel)

MOST ENGAGING AUTHOR
(The author who is an in-store star as well as having a strong sense of the importance of indie booksellers to the community.)
* Isabel Allende
* Laurie Halse Anderson
* Libba Bray
* Michael Chabon
* Kate DiCamillo -- Winner!
* Abraham Verghese
PICTURE BOOK HALL OF FAME
* Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz (Atheneum) -- Winner!
* Bread and Jam for Frances, by Russell Hoban and Lillian Hoban (HarperCollins)
* Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, and Lois Ehlert (Simon & Schuster)
* Corduroy, by Don Freeman (Viking)
* Curious George, by H.A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* Goodnight Gorilla, by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)
* Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
* The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (Grosset & Dunlap/Philomel)
* Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking) -- Winner!
* Napping House, by Audrey Wood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking)
* Stellaluna, by Janelle Cannon (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson (Viking) -- Winner!


2009 Indies Choice Winners

The winners of the first Indies Choice Book Awards, formerly the Book Sense Book of the Year Awards and sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, are:

Best Indie Buzz Book (Fiction): The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press)
Best Conversation Starter (Nonfiction): The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (Riverhead)
Best Author Discovery: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book (Fiction): The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
Best New Picture Book: Bats at the Library by Brian Lies (Houghton Mifflin)
Most Engaging Author: Sherman Alexie
The winners were chosen by ABA members and will be honored at the Celebration of Bookselling lunch on Friday, May 29, at BookExpo America in New York.
Five Indies Choice Book Awards honor recipients were also named in each category:
Best Indie Buzz Book (Fiction) Honor Books
  • City of Thieves, by David Benioff (Viking)
  • The Given Day, by Dennis Lehane
  • Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill
  • People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
  • Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)
Best Conversation Starter (Nonfiction) Honor Books
  • American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, by Steven Rinella
  • The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins (Knopf)
  • Hurry Down Sunshine: A Memoir, by Michael Greenberg (Other Press)
  • A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America, by Tony Horwitz (Holt)
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
Best Author Discovery (Debut) Honor Books
  • Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central)
  • The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
  • Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan (Algonquin)
  • The Story of Forgetting, by Stefan Merrill Block (Random House)
  • White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga (Free Press)
Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Honor Book (Fiction)
  • Graceling, by Kristin Cashore (HMH)
  • Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
  • Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow (Tor)
  • My Most Excellent Year, by Steve Kluger (Dial)
  • Savvy, by Ingrid Law (Dial)
Best New Picture Book Honor Books
  • Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken, by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Harry Bliss (HarperCollins)
  • Monkey and Me, by Emily Gravett (Simon & Schuster)
  • The Pout Pout Fish, by Deborah Diesen; illustrated by Dan Hanna (FSG)
  • Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, by Mem Fox; illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (Harcourt)
  • Wave, by Suzi Lee (Chronicle)
Most Engaging Author Honor Recipients
  • Michael Chabon
  • Ann Patchett
  • Jon Scieszka
  • David Sedaris
  • Terry Tempest Williams

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