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The Indies Choice Book Awards

Vote here by March 31, 2009.

 

The Indies Choice Book Awards* reflect the spirit of independent bookstores and the IndieBound movement. Vote for your favorite handsell in each of the seven categories highlighting the type of books that indie booksellers champion best. These ICBA finalists were selected by a jury of your indie bookseller peers based on 2008 Indie Next List Great Reads and Book Sense Picks.

The top vote getter in each category will win the Indies Choice Book Award with the remaining titles designated as Indies Choice Honor Books. (See special instructions for the Picture Book Hall of Fame.) All booksellers in ABA member bookstores are encouraged to vote, although only one ballot per person please!

 

VOTING IS CLOSED!


BEST INDIE BUZZ BOOK (fiction)
Vote for One (1)

City of Thieves, by David Benioff (Viking)
The Given Day, by Dennis Lehane (Morrow)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial) 
Netherland, by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)   
Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)

BEST CONVERSATION STARTER (nonfiction)
Vote for One (1)

American Buffalo, by Steven Rinella (Spiegel & Grau)
The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins (Knopf)
Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg (Other Press) 
A Voyage Long and Strange, by Tony Horwitz (Holt)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
The Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah Vowell (Riverhead)

BEST AUTHOR DISCOVERY (debut)
Vote for One (1)

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 Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
The Story of Forgetting, by Stefan Merrill Block (Random House)
White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga (Free Press)

BEST INDIE YOUNG ADULT BUZZ BOOK (fiction)
Vote for One (1)

Graceling, by Kristin Cashore (HMH)
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
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
Vote for One (1)

Bats at the Library, by Brian Lies (Houghton Mifflin)
Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken, by Kate DiCamillo & Harry Bliss (HarperCollins)
Monkey and Me, by Emily Gravett (Simon & Schuster)
The Pout Pout Fish, by Deborah Diesen & Dan Hanna  (FSG)
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, by Mem Fox & Helen Oxenbury (Harcourt)
Wave, by Suzi Lee (Chronicle)

MOST ENGAGING AUTHOR
(The author who is an in-store star with a strong sense of the importance of indie booksellers to the community.)
Vote for One (1)

Sherman Alexie
Michael Chabon
Ann Patchett
Jon Scieszka
David Sedaris
Terry Tempest Williams

PICTURE BOOK HALL OF FAME
(The top vote getters will be the first inductees into the Indies Choice Book Awards Picture Book Hall of Fame.)
Vote for Three (3)

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst & Ray Cruz (Atheneum)
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault & Lois Ehlert (Simon & Schuster)
Corduroy, by Don Freeman (Viking)
Curious George, by H. A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin)
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
Goodnight Gorilla, by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)
The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (Grosset & Dunlap/Philomel)
Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
Napping House, by Audrey Wood (Harcourt)
Stellaluna, by Janelle Cannon (Harcourt)
The Story of Ferdinand the Bull, by Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson (Viking)
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins)

WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN LATE APRIL.
Awards ceremony will be held at ABA’s Celebration of Bookselling Luncheon at BEA.
(Look for details in upcoming Bookselling This Week issues.)

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 Vote by March 31, 2009

VOTING IS CLOSED!

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* Successor to the Book Sense Book of the Year Award