Indies Choice Book AwardsWinner

Given by American Booksellers Association (ABA)

Other Names: Book Sense Book of the Year, Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book, Indies Choice Book Award Honor Book, Indies Picture Book Hall of Fame
87 Works 0 Books
Formerly known as Book Sense Book of the Year (2000-2008)
Stages:
All, Winner (87), Honor Book (228), Picture Book Hall of Fame (30)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2019 (4), 2018 (5), 2017 (4), 2016 (5), 2015 (4), 2014 (4), 2013 (4), 2012 (5), 2011 (4), 2010 (6), 2009 (5), 2008 (4), 2007 (4), 2006 (4), 2005 (4), 2004 (4), 2003 (6), 2002 (5), 2001 (4), 2000 (2)

Winner 87

WorkCategoryYear
There There by Tommy OrangeAdult Debut2019
Circe by Madeline MillerAdult Fiction2019
Educated: A Memoir by Tara WestoverAdult Nonfiction2019
The Poet X by Elizabeth AcevedoYoung Adult2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria MachadoAdult Debut2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardAdult Fiction2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David GrannAdult Nonfiction2018
Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersAudiobook2018
The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasYoung Adult2018
Homegoing by Yaa GyasiAdult Debut2017
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadAdult Fiction2017
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter WohllebenAdult Nonfiction2017
Salt to the Sea by Ruta SepetysYoung Adult2017
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan StradalAdult Debut2016
Fates and Furies by Lauren GroffAdult Fiction2016
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesAdult Nonfiction2016
Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel SavitYoung Adult2016
Nimona by ND StevensonYoung Adult2016
The Martian by Andy WeirAdult Debut2015
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAdult Fiction2015
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul GawandeAdult Nonfiction2015
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly BlackYoung Adult2015
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony MarraAdult Debut2014
Life After Life by Kate AtkinsonAdult Fiction2014
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James BrownAdult Nonfiction2014
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow RowellYoung Adult2014
The Snow Child by Eowyn IveyAdult Debut2013
The Round House by Louise ErdrichAdult Fiction2013
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl StrayedAdult Nonfiction2013
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenYoung Adult2013
The Tiger's Wife by Téa ObrehtAdult Debut2012
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey EugenidesAdult Fiction2012
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle HamiltonAdult Non-fiction2012
I Want My Hat Back by Jon KlassenPicture Book2012
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysYoung Adult2012
Matterhorn by Karl MarlantesAdult Debut2011
Room by Emma DonoghueAdult Fiction2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura HillenbrandAdult Non-fiction2011
Revolution by Jennifer DonnellyYoung Adult2011
The Help by Kathryn StockettAdult Debut2010
Cutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseAdult Fiction2010
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David GrannAdult Non-fiction2010
When You Reach Me by Rebecca SteadMiddle Readers2010
The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry PinkneyNew Picture Book2010
Catching Fire by Suzanne CollinsYoung Adult2010
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferAdult Fiction Winner2009
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah VowellAdult Non Fiction Winner2009
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David WroblewskiBest Author Discovery Debut Winner2009
Bats at the Library by Brian LiesNew Picture Book2009
The Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanYoung Adult Fiction2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAdult Fiction2008
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara KingsolverAdult Nonfiction2008
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo WillemsChildren's Illustrated2008
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian SelznickChildren's Literature2008
Water for Elephants by Sara GruenAdult Fiction2007
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora EphronAdult Nonfiction2007
Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Isabella HatkoffChildren's Illustrated2007
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakChildren's Literature2007
The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaAdult Fiction2006
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. LevittAdult Nonfiction2006
Zen Shorts by Jon J. MuthChildren's Illustrated2006
Inkspell by Cornelia FunkeChildren's Literature2006
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna ClarkeAdult Fiction2005
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert KursonAdult Nonfiction2005
Duck for President by Doreen CroninChildren's Illustrated2005
Chasing Vermeer by Blue BalliettChildren's Literature2005
The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownAdult Fiction2004
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar NafisiAdult Nonfiction2004
How I Became a Pirate by Melinda LongChildren's Illustrated2004
Eragon by Christopher PaoliniChildren's Literature2004
The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldAdult Fiction2003
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra FullerAdult Nonfiction2003
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School by Mark TeagueChildren's Illustrated2003
The Thief Lord by Cornelia FunkeChildren's Literature2003
Bel Canto by Ann PatchettPaperback2003
The Children of Green Knowe by L. M. BostonRediscovery2003
Peace Like a River by Leif EngerAdult Fiction2002
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura HillenbrandAdult Nonfiction2002
Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian FalconerChildren's Illustrated2002
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann BrasharesChildren's Literature2002
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles GannettRediscovery2002
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantAdult Fiction2001
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross KingAdult Nonfiction2001
Olivia by Ian FalconerChildren's Illustrated2001
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloChildren's Literature2001
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverAdult2000
The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff BrumbeauChildren's2000

Descriptions

Formerly known as Book Sense Book of the Year (2000-2008) (English, Member-written)
The Book Sense Book of the Year Award was inaugurated at BookExpo America 2000. 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.

Became the Indies Choice Book Award in 2009 (English, Member-written)
Book Sense Book of the Year ran from 2000-2008 and was replaced by Indies Choice Book Awards in 2009 (English, Member-written)
Now known as Indies Choice Book Awards (Russian, Member-written)

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