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 Winners of the 2013 Indies Choice Book Awards, honoring books members of the American Booksellers Association most enjoyed selling, have been announced.
"Once again this year, the owners and staff at ABA member stores across the country enthusiastically cast their ballots to choose the winners from an outstanding list of indie handselling favorites," said ABA CEO Oren Teicher.
This year's Indies Choice Book Awards winners include:
Adult fiction: The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Adult nonfiction: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf)
Adult Debut: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (Little, Brown)
Young Adult: The Fault in Our Stars by by John Green (Dutton Juvenile)
The winners of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards are:
Middle reader: Wonder by R.J. Palacio (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Picture book: Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Balzer + Bray)
John Green will receive the Indie Champion Award (formerly Most Engaging Author prize), which was renamed by booksellers "to more clearly describe the award presented to the author or illustrator that has both the best sense of the importance of independent bookstores to their communities at large and the strongest personal commitment to foster and support the mission and passion of independent booksellers."
Indie booksellers annually select three classic picture books for induction into the Picture Book Hall of Fame, though four will enter this year due to a tie in the voting:
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Lillian Hoban (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobokina (HarperCollins)
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson (HarperCollins)
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith (Viking Juvenile)
For a full list of winners, including honor recipients, click here. All authors will be honored at the Celebration of Bookselling Author Awards Luncheon May 30 at BookExpo America.
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