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2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards

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The 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards was the final running of the American Booksellers Association annual Book Sense Book of the Year Awards. The award was created in 2000, when the American Bookseller Book Of The Year award, that ran from 1991 to 2000, was renamed. The books that were awarded were chosen by book stores that participated in the American Booksellers Association's Book Sense program. Books published in 2007 were eligible for the award and voting took place between 10 January and 3 March 2008. In 2008, Book Sense was renamed IndieBound and the award was renamed the Indies Choice Book Awards.

Contents

Adult Fiction Winner

  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

    • Adult Fiction Honor Books

  • The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
  • Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
  • Away by Amy Bloom
  • Run by Ann Patchett

    • Adult Nonfiction Winner

  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver (HarperCollins)

    • Adult Nonfiction Honor Books

  • The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
  • Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
  • The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam
  • The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs

    • Children's Literature Winner

  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)

    • Children's Literature Honor Books

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown Young Readers)
  • Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Young Readers)
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
  • The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)

    • Children's Illustrated Winner

  • Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children)

    • Children's Illustrated Honor Books

  • Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy by Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss-Glasser (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
  • Pirates Don't Change Diapers by Melinda Long, David Shannon (Illus.) (Harcourt Children's Books)
  • The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis (Frances Foster Books/FSG)
  • Llama Llama Mad at Mama by Anna Dewdney (Viking Juvenile/Penguin Young Readers Group)

    • References

    2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards Wikipedia
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