Indies Choice Book Awards
The Indies Choice Book Awards reflect the spirit of independent bookstores nationwide through new categories and a broad range of winners and honor books.
- 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
David Wroblewski | Brian Lies | Sarah Vowell
David Wroblewski, author of THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, offers a heartfelt "thank you" to independent booksellers for selecting him as Best Author Discovery for the Indies Choice Book Awards 2009.
Prior to 2009, the American Booksellers Association awarded the Book Sense Book of the Year.