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These awards celebrate the best Adult Fiction*, Adult Nonfiction, Children's Picture Books, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Indie Press Fiction, Indie Press Nonfiction, Debut Adult, and Debut Children's* titles voted by indie booksellers.

Voting Guidelines:

  • Refer to the downloadable excel sheet of the eligible titles before submitting selected titles per category. The form cannot be saved to return to at a later date.
  • Indie booksellers can select up to 1 title in each award category.
  • A title cannot be chosen more than once in any category.
  • Each indie bookseller will only be able to submit the form once.
  • Indie booksellers do not have to submit a selection for each category and are not required to select the maximum of 3 titles in a respective category.

If you are an indie bookseller at an ABA member store and do not have a BookWeb.org login, complete the request form.

*Due to a tie, Adult Fiction and Debut Children's have 6 titles to choose from instead of 5.