The 2015 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award winners, which are voted on by independent booksellers, were announced yesterday by the ABA.
“This year’s winners and honor award recipients are representative of the outstanding titles hand-sold at ABA member stores nationwide,” said American Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher. “We congratulate their authors and illustrators and look forward to honoring them at this year’s Celebration of Bookselling and Author Awards Lunch at BEA.”
Adult Fiction Book of the Year
All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner) by Anthony Doerr
Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Metropolitan Books) by Atul Gawande
Adult Debut Book of the Year
The Martian (Crown) by Andy Weir (Crown)
YA Book of the Year
The Darkest Part of the Forest (Little, Brown BFYR) by Holly Black
E.B. White Read-Aloud Award—Middle Reader
Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books) by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen Books)
E.B. White Read-Aloud Award—Picture Book
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Candlewick) by Mac Barnett, illus. by Jon Klassen
Indie Champion Award
Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer (HarperCollins/Hachette)
Picture Book Hall of Fame Inductees
Blueberries for Sal (Viking) by Robert McCloskey
Frog and Toad (HarperCollins) by Arnold Lobel (HarperCollins)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (HarperCollins) by Laura Numeroff, illus. by Felicia Bond
A full list of award winners, including honor books, is available here.
