# Indies Choice Book Awards

The Indies Choice Book Award (formerly known as Book Sense Book of the Year 2000-2008) is an American literary award that was inaugurated at BookExpo America 2000. The American Booksellers Association (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. Throughout the year, Book Sense independent booksellers from across the country nominate for inclusion in the monthly Book Sense Picks the books that they most enjoyed hand-selling to their customers. The books on each list represent a combined national and local staff pick selection of booksellers' favorites from more than 1,200 independent bookstores with Book Sense.
The award was renamed the Indies Choice Book Award in 2009. The winners are announced in conjunction with the E. B. White Read Aloud Award

## Award winners and honor books

Award Recipients :
| Year | Category | Title | Author | Result |
| 2004 | Adult Fiction | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | Winner |
| 2004 | Adult Fiction | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | Honor |
| 2004 | Adult Fiction | The Master Butchers Singing Club | Louise Erdrich | Honor |
| 2004 | Adult Fiction | Mrs. Kimble | Jennifer Haigh | Honor |
| 2004 | Adult Fiction | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | Honor |
| 2004 | Adult Nonfiction | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books | Azar Nafisi | Winner |
| 2004 | Adult Nonfiction | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America | Erik Larson | Honor |
| 2004 | Adult Nonfiction | Flyboys: A True Story of Courage | James Bradley | Honor |
| 2004 | Adult Nonfiction | Michelangelo & The Pope's Ceiling | Ross King | Honor |
| 2004 | Adult Nonfiction | Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder | Honor |
| 2004 | Children's Literature | Eragon | Christopher Paolini | Winner |
| 2004 | Children's Literature | Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code | Eoin Colfer | Honor |
| 2004 | Children's Literature | Inkheart | Cornelia Funke | Honor |
| 2004 | Children's Literature | The Second Summer of the Sisterhood | Ann Brashares | Honor |
| 2004 | Children's Literature | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo and Timothy Basil Ering (illus.) | Honor |
| 2004 | Children's Illustrated | How I Became a Pirate | Melinda Long and David Shannon (illus.) | Winner |
| 2004 | Children's Illustrated | Diary of a Wombat | Jackie French and Bruce Whatley (illus.) | Honor |
| 2004 | Children's Illustrated | Diary of a Worm | Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss (illus.) | Honor |
| 2004 | Children's Illustrated | Old Turtle and the Broken Truth | Douglas Wood and Jon J. Muth (illus.) | Honor |
| 2004 | Children's Illustrated | Olivia ... and the Missing Toy | Ian Falconer | Honor |
| 2004 | Paperback | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | Winner |
| 2004 | Paperback | Atonement | Ian McEwan | Honor |
| 2004 | Paperback | The Dive from Clausen's Pier | Ann Packer | Honor |
| 2004 | Paperback | Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal | Christopher Moore | Honor |
| 2004 | Paperback | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Honor |
| 2005 | Adult Fiction | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | Winner |
| 2005 | Adult Fiction | Eventide | Kent Haruf | Honor |
| 2005 | Adult Fiction | The Birth of Venus | Sarah Dunant | Honor |
| 2005 | Adult Fiction | The Plot Against America | Philip Roth | Honor |
| 2005 | Adult Fiction | The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | Honor |
| 2005 | Adult Nonfiction | Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II | Robert Kurson | Winner |
| 2005 | Adult Nonfiction | Candyfreak | Steve Almond | Honor |
| 2005 | Adult Nonfiction | The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker | Robert Mankoff (ed.) | Honor |
| 2005 | Adult Nonfiction | Magical Thinking | Augusten Burroughs | Honor |
| 2005 | Adult Nonfiction | Truth & Beauty: A Friendship | Ann Patchett | Honor |
| 2005 | Children's Literature | Chasing Vermeer | Blue Balliett and Brett Helquist (Illus.) | Winner |
| 2005 | Children's Literature | Becoming Naomi Leon | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Honor |
| 2005 | Children's Literature | Ida B ... and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World | Katherine Hannigan | Honor |
| 2005 | Children's Literature | Peter and the Starcatchers | Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson | Honor |
| 2005 | Children's Literature | The Sea of Trolls | Nancy Farmer | Honor |
| 2005 | Children's Illustrated | Duck for President | Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin (Illus.) | Winner |
| 2005 | Children's Illustrated | Kitten's First Full Moon | Kevin Henkes | Honor |
| 2005 | Children's Illustrated | Knuffle Bunny | Mo Willems | Honor |
| 2005 | Children's Illustrated | Mister Seahorse | Eric Carle | Honor |
| 2005 | Children's Illustrated | Wild About Books | Judy Sierra | Honor |
| 2006 | Adult Fiction | The Historian: A Novel | Elizabeth Kostova | Winner |
| 2006 | Adult Fiction | Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | Honor |
| 2006 | Adult Fiction | The March: A Novel | E. L. Doctorow | Honor |
| 2006 | Adult Fiction | Saturday | Ian McEwan | Honor |
| 2006 | Adult Fiction | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | Honor |
| 2006 | Adult Nonfiction | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | Winner |
| 2006 | Adult Nonfiction | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Honor |
| 2006 | Adult Nonfiction | The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece | Jonathan Harr | Honor |
| 2006 | Adult Nonfiction | Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog | John Grogan | Honor |
| 2006 | Adult Nonfiction | The Tender Bar: A Memoir | J.R. Moehringer | Honor |
| 2006 | Children's Literature | Inkspell | Cornelia Funke | Winner |
| 2006 | Children's Literature | A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray | Ann M. Martin | Honor |
| 2006 | Children's Literature | Eldest | Christopher Paolini | Honor |
| 2006 | Children's Literature | Flush | Carl Hiaasen | Honor |
| 2006 | Children's Literature | The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy | Jeanne Birdsall | Honor |
| 2006 | Children's Illustrated | Zen Shorts | Jon J Muth | Winner |
| 2006 | Children's Illustrated | Diary of a Spider | Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss (Illus.) | Honor |
| 2006 | Children's Illustrated | Leaf Man | Lois Ehlert | Honor |
| 2006 | Children's Illustrated | Leonardo, the Terrible Monster | Mo Willems | Honor |
| 2006 | Children's Illustrated | Seen Art? | Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Illus.) | Honor |
| 2007 | Adult Fiction | Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | Winner |
| 2007 | Adult Fiction | The Brief History of the Dead | Kevin Brockmeier | Honor |
| 2007 | Adult Fiction | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | Honor |
| 2007 | Adult Fiction | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Honor |
| 2007 | Adult Fiction | Suite française | Irène Némirovsky | Honor |
| 2007 | Adult Nonfiction | I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman | Nora Ephron | Winner |
| 2007 | Adult Nonfiction | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid | Bill Bryson | Honor |
| 2007 | Adult Nonfiction | Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War | Nathaniel Philbrick | Honor |
| 2007 | Adult Nonfiction | Thunderstruck | Erik Larson | Honor |
| 2007 | Adult Nonfiction | The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | Timothy Egan | Honor |
| 2007 | Children's Literature | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Winner |
| 2007 | Children's Literature | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party | M. T. Anderson | Honor |
| 2007 | Children's Literature | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! | Lynne Truss | Honor |
| 2007 | Children's Literature | New Moon | Stephenie Meyer | Honor |
| 2007 | Children's Literature | Peter and the Shadow Thieves | Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson | Honor |
| 2007 | Children's Illustrated | Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship | Paul Kahumbu, Isabella Hatkoff and Dr. Paul Kahumbu | Winner |
| 2007 | Children's Illustrated | Fancy Nancy | Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser (illus.) | Honor |
| 2007 | Children's Illustrated | Flotsam | David Wiesner | Honor |
| 2007 | Children's Illustrated | Library Lion | Michelle Knudsen and Kevin Hawkes (illus.) | Honor |
| 2007 | Children's Illustrated | Pirateology: A Pirate Hunter's Companion | Captain William Lubber and Nghiem Ta (designer) | Honor |
| 2008 | Adult Fiction | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Winner |
| 2008 | Adult Fiction | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Michael Chabon | Honor |
| 2008 | Adult Fiction | Bridge of Sighs | Richard Russo | Honor |
| 2008 | Adult Fiction | Away | Amy Bloom | Honor |
| 2008 | Adult Fiction | Run | Ann Patchett | Honor |
| 2008 | Adult Nonfiction | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life | Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver | Winner |
| 2008 | Adult Nonfiction | The World Without Us | Alan Weisman | Honor |
| 2008 | Adult Nonfiction | Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life | Steve Martin | Honor |
| 2008 | Adult Nonfiction | The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War | David Halberstam | Honor |
| 2008 | Adult Nonfiction | The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible | A. J. Jacobs | Honor |
| 2008 | Children's Literature | The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick | Winner |
| 2008 | Children's Literature | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Sherman Alexie | Honor |
| 2008 | Children's Literature | Eclipse | Stephenie Meyer | Honor |
| 2008 | Children's Literature | Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney | Honor |
| 2008 | Children's Literature | The Arrival | Shaun Tan | Honor |
| 2008 | Children's Illustrated | Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity | Mo Willems | Winner |
| 2008 | Children's Illustrated | Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy | Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.) | Honor |
| 2008 | Children's Illustrated | Pirates Don't Change Diapers | Melinda Long and David Shannon (Illus.) | Honor |
| 2008 | Children's Illustrated | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Peter Sis | Honor |
| 2008 | Children's Illustrated | Llama Llama Mad at Mama | Anna Dewdney | Honor |
| 2009 | Best Indie Buzz Book (Fiction) | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows | Winner |
| 2009 | Best Conversation Starter (Nonfiction) | The Wordy Shipmates | Sarah Vowell | Winner |
| 2009 | Best Author Discovery | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski | Winner |
| 2009 | Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book (Fiction) | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Winner |
| 2009 | Best New Picture Book | Bats at the Library | Brian Lies | Winner |
| 2009 | Most Engaging Author | Sherman Alexie | | Winner |
| 2010 | Adult Fiction | Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | Winner |
| 2010 | Adult Nonfiction | The Lost City of Z | David Grann | Winner |
| 2010 | Adult Debut | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Winner |
| 2010 | Young Adult | Catching Fire | Suzanne Collins | Winner |
| 2010 | Middle Reader | When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead | Winner |
| 2010 | New Picture Book | The Lion & the Mouse | Jerry Pinkney | Winner |
| 2010 | Most Engaging Author | Kate DiCamillo | | Winner |
| 2011 | Adult Fiction | Room | Emma Donoghue | Winner |
| 2011 | Adult Nonfiction | Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand | Winner |
| 2011 | Adult Debut | Matterhorn | Karl Marlantes | Winner |
| 2011 | Young Adult | Revolution | Jennifer Donnelly | Winner |
| 2012 | Adult Fiction | The Marriage Plot | Jeffrey Eugenides | Winner |
| 2012 | Adult Nonfiction | Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef | Gabrielle Hamilton | Winner |
| 2012 | Adult Debut | The Tiger’s Wife | Téa Obreht | Winner |
| 2012 | Young Adult | Between Shades of Gray | Ruta Sepetys | Winner |
| 2012 | Most Engaging Author | Ann Patchett | | Winner |
| 2012 | Middle Reader | The Apothecary | Maile Meloy and Ian Schoenherr (Illus.) | Winner |
| 2012 | Middle Reader | Wildwood | Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis (Illus.) | Winner |
| 2012 | Picture Book | I Want My Hat Back | Jon Klassen | Winner |
| 2013 | Adult Fiction | The Round House | Louise Erdrich | Winner |
| 2013 | Adult Nonfiction | Wild | Cheryl Strayed | Winner |
| 2014 | Adult Fiction | Life After Life | Kate Atkinson | Winner |
| 2014 | Adult Nonfiction | The Boys in the Boat | Daniel James Brown | Winner |
| 2014 | Adult Debut | A Constellation of Vital Phenomena | Anthony Marra | Winner |
| 2014 | Young Adult | Eleanor & Park | Rainbow Rowell | Winner |
| 2014 | Indie Champion | James Patterson | | Winner |
| 2015 | Adult Fiction | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | Winner |
| 2015 | Adult Nonfiction | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande | Winner |
| 2015 | Adult Debut | The Martian | Andy Weir | Winner |
| 2015 | Young Adult | The Darkest Part of the Forest | Holly Black | Winner |
| 2015 | Indie Champion | Neil Gaiman | | Winner |
| 2015 | Indie Champion | Amanda Palmer | | Winner |
| 2016 | Adult Fiction | Fates and Furies | Lauren Groff | Winner |
| 2016 | Adult Fiction | City on Fire | Garth Risk Hallberg | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Fiction | Get in Trouble | Kelly Link | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Fiction | A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Fiction | The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Fiction | Welcome to Braggsville | T. Geronimo Johnson | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Nonfiction | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Winner |
| 2016 | Adult Nonfiction | Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania | Erik Larson | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Nonfiction | Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt | Kristin Hersh | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Nonfiction | H Is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Nonfiction | Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs | Sally Mann | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Nonfiction | Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey | Marie Mutsuki Mockett | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Debut | Kitchens of the Great Midwest: A Novel | J. Ryan Stradal | Winner |
| 2016 | Adult Debut | Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen | Mary Norris | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Debut | Dragonfish | Vu Tran | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Debut | The Meursault Investigation | Kamel Daoud | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Debut | Our Endless Numbered Days | Claire Fuller | Honor |
| 2016 | Adult Debut | The Turner House | Angela Flournoy | Honor |
| 2016 | Young Adult | Anna and the Swallow Man | Gavriel Savit | Winner |
| 2016 | Young Adult | Nimona | ND Stevenson | Winner |
| 2016 | Young Adult | Dumplin’ | Julie Murphy | Honor |
| 2016 | Young Adult | More Happy Than Not | Adam Silvera | Honor |
| 2016 | Young Adult | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | Honor |
| 2016 | Young Adult | Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad | M. T. Anderson | Honor |
| 2016 | Indie Champion | Richard Russo | | Winner |
| 2016 | Indie Champion | Dave Eggers | | Honor |
| 2016 | Indie Champion | Louise Erdrich | | Honor |
| 2016 | Indie Champion | Loren Long | | Honor |
| 2016 | Indie Champion | Celeste Ng | | Honor |
| 2016 | Indie Champion | Maggie Stiefvater | | Honor |

## Picture Book Hall of Fame

Picture Book Hall of Fame :
| Year Inducted | Title | Author | Illustrator |
| 2012 | Curious George | H.A. Rey | |
| 2012 | The Little Engine That Could | Watty Piper | |
| 2012 | Miss Rumphius | Barbara Cooney | |
| 2013 | Caps for Sale | Esphyr Slobokina | |
| 2013 | Harold and the Purple Crayon | Crockett Johnson | |
| 2013 | The True Story of the Three Little Pigs | Jon Scieszka | Lane Smith |
| 2014 | Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? | Bill Martin Jr. | Eric Carle |
| 2014 | Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | Clement Hurd |
| 2014 | Stellaluna | Janell Cannon | |
| 2015 | Frog and Toad | Arnold Lobel | |
| 2015 | Blueberries for Sal | Robert McCloskey | |
| 2015 | If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | Laura Numeroff | Felicia Bond |
| 2016 | Eloise | Kay Thompson | Hilary Knight |
| 2016 | Olivia | Ian Falconer | |
| 2016 | Strega Nona | Tomi dePaola | |
| 2016 | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | William Stieg | |