Indies Choice Book Awards
OK, so the finalists for the have been announced. The awards—voted on by American Booksellers Association members, with the winners announced at BookExpo—cover seven categories: Best Indie Buzz Book (fiction), Best Conversation Starter (nonfiction), Best Author Discovery (debut), Best New Picture Book, Best YA Buzz Book, Most Engaging Author, and the Picture Book Hall of Fame.
The two categories that I’m most interested in are the Indie Buzz Book for works of fiction and the Best Author Discovery for best debut. Here are your finalists:
Best Indie Buzz Book (Fiction)
- by David Benioff (Viking)
- by Dennis Lehane (Morrow)
- by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial)
- by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)
- by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
- by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)
Best Author Discovery (Debut)
- by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central)
- by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
- by Hillary Jordan (Algonquin)
- by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
- by Stefan Merrill Block (Random House)
- by Aravind Adiga (Free Press)
We’re big fans of independent bookstores (all the above links go to the Harvard Book Store, which we’ve decided to support this month), and I think it’s great that there’s a set of book awards given out by independent booksellers. This isn’t exactly the indie list I was hoping for (I like my bookseller reading tastes to be more eclectic, less corporate), but at least there’s one translation: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which was translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland.
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