Recent Award Winners
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 – 5:54 pmThe American Booksellers Association recently announced the winners of the inaugural Indies Choice Book Awards. An expanded version of the ABA’s Book Sense Book of the Year Award, the winners this year include Sherman Alexie who was chosen as Most Engaging Author.
The Best Indie Buzz Book for fiction went to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Written as a series of letters, this historical novel is both humorous and poignant as it tells a story of the German occupation of one of the Channel Islands during World War II.
Chosen as Best Conversation Starter was the non-fiction book about the Puritans, The Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah Vowell.
Mystery lovers will welcome the recent announcements of both the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar awards and the Malice Domestic winners for books published in 2008.
The Edgar for best novel went to Blue Heaven by C. J. Box, described as an adrenaline producing adventure featuring two children on the run in the woods of North Idaho.
The Agatha goes each year to a traditional, or ‘cozy’ mystery and is this year awarded to The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny. When a seance in a small village in Quebec turns deadly, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to investigate.
