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.
- Adult Fiction: Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese (Knopf)
- Adult Nonfiction: The Lost City of Z, by David Grann (Doubleday)
- Adult Debut: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
- Young Adult: Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
- Middle Reader: When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books)
- New Picture Book: The Lion and the Mouse, by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown)
- Most Engaging Author: Kate DiCamillo
Picture Book Hall of Fame Inductees:
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz (Atheneum)
- Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
- The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson (Viking)
Download shelftalkers for all 2010 Indies Choice Book Award winners and honor awards here.
- 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
Picture Book Hall of Fame Inductees:
- Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins)
- Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey (Viking Juvenile)
- Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children)
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.
