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WORD:
American Booksellers Association announces 2009 Indies Choice Book
Award Winners
Edited Press Release
The American Booksellers Association announced the winners of the
inaugural Indies Choice Book Awards. Formerly the Book Sense Book of
the Year Awards, the new Indies Choice Book Awards reflect the spirit
of independent bookstores nationwide through new categories and a
broader range of winners and honor books.
The 2009 Indies
Choice Book Award winners, chosen by the owners and staff at ABA member
stores during more than four weeks of voting, are as follows.
· Best Indie Buzz Book
(Fiction): The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (The 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
"On behalf of independent booksellers across the country, we're proud
to announce the first Indies Choice Book Award winners," said ABA CEO
Avin Mark Domnitz. "Each perfectly represents the array of unique and
thought-provoking titles championed by ABA members. We look forward to
saluting the winning authors and illustrators at a very festive
Celebration of Bookselling Luncheon at BEA."
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 (Morrow)
· Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill (Pantheon)
· 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
(Spiegel & Grau)
· 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
Winners and honor books are all titles appearing on the 2008 Indie Next
Lists, which launched last July, and on the Book Sense Picks Lists from
the first half of the year. Most Engaging Author honorees are being
recognized for being engaging at in-store appearances, as well as for
having a strong sense of the importance of independent booksellers to
their communities at large.
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