Book Sense Book of the Year Award
Book Sense Book of the Year Awards (formerly the American Booksellers Book of the Year (ABBY) Awards) are given each year in the adult and children's book categories that ABA bookstore members most enjoyed recommending to their customers during the previous year. 2001, two more categories were added, Children's Illustrated and Nonfiction.You can find about more book award winners in our Book Awards section.
2004
Adult Fiction The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
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Adult Nonfiction Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (Random House)
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Children's Literature Winner Eragon: The Inheritance, Book I by Christopher Paolini (Knopf)
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Children's Illustrated Winner How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long; illus. by David Shannon (Harcourt)
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Paperback The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)
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2003
Adult Fiction The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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Adult Nonfiction Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
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Children's Literature Winner The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
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Children's Illustrated Winner Dear Mrs. LaRue by Mark Teague
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Rediscovery The Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
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Rediscovery Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
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2002
Adult Fiction Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
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Adult Nonfiction Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
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Children's Literature Winner The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
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Children's Illustrated Winner Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falconer
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Rediscovery My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
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2001
Adult Fiction The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
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Adult Nonfiction Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
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Children's Illustrated Winner Olivia by Ian Falconer
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Children's Literature Winner Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
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2000
Adult Trade The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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Childrens The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau, illustrated by Gail de Marcken
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1999
Adult Trade Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
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Childrens Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Mary Grandpr�
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1998
Adult Trade Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
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Childrens The Hat by Jan Brett
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1997
Adult Trade Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
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Childrens Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
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1996
Adult Trade Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
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Childrens Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney, illus. by Anita Jeram
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1995
Adult Trade Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
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Childrens The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
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1994
Adult Trade Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
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Childrens Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
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1993
Adult Trade The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
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Childrens Old Turtle by Douglas Wood, illus. by Cheng-Khee Chee
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1992
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle by Susan Jeffers, illus.
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1991
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
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