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2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards |

The American Booksellers Association announces the 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards.
The winners as voted by the owners and staff of American
Booksellers Association member bookstores are:
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- Fiction: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
(Riverhead/Penguin)
- Nonfiction: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food
Life by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille
Kingsolver (HarperCollins)
- Children's Literature: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)
- Children's Illustrated: Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of
Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children)
Fiction Honor Books
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon
(HarperCollins)
- Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (Knopf/Random House)
- Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom (Random House)
- Run: A Novel by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)
Nonfiction Honor Books
- The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Thomas Dunne
Books/St. Martin's)
- Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
(Scribner/S&S)
- The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David
Halberstam (Hyperion)
- The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow
the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs (Simon &
Schuster)
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 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)
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If you would like to purchase
any of these books, please
use this form
on our home page to tell us
and we will contact you about your order. The Book Sense
Book of the Year winners and honor books were selected by ABA
members from titles most often nominated for the Book Sense
Picks lists in 2007. Booksellers were also able to write
in titles on the ballot. Only books published in 2007 were
eligible. |
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