The winning titles and honor titles of the 2018 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, have been announced and can be seen here. Authors and illustrators will be honored at the Celebration of Bookselling and Author Awards Lunch on Wednesday, May 30, during BookExpo.
Among the awards:
Adult Fiction Book of the Year: Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)
Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (Doubleday)
Adult Debut Book of the Year: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
Audiobook of the Year: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, read by Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and a full cast (Random House Audio)
Young Adult Book of the Year: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Balzer + Bray)
E.B. White Read-Aloud Award--Middle Reader: Wishtree by Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
E.B. White Read-Aloud Award--Picture Book: The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Candlewick)
Indie Champion Award: Jason Reynolds
Indie Champion Honorees:
Judy Blume
David Levithan
Celeste Ng
Jesmyn Ward
Jacqueline Woodson
Picture Book Hall of Fame Inductees:
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts (Abrams)
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr., illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Schwartz & Wade)
We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
