Last week I posted the Indie Choice long list – here are the winners!
The 2011 winners are:
Adult Fiction Book of the Year
- Room, by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)
Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year
- Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)
Adult Debut Book of the Year
- Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes (Atlantic Monthly Press and El León Literary Arts)
Young Adult Book of the Year
- Revolution, by Jennifer Donnelly (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
And the 2011 Honor Award recipients, named in each category, with the exception of Picture Book Hall of Fame, are:
Adult Fiction Honor Awards
- Great House, by Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton)
- How to Read the Air, by Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead)
- The Surrendered, by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead)
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (Random House)
- A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
Adult Nonfiction Honor Awards
- At Home, by Bill Bryson (Doubleday)
- Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown)
- Let’s Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell (Random House)
- The Tiger, by John Vaillant (Knopf)
- The Wave, by Susan Casey (Doubleday)
Adult Debut Honor Awards
- Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, by Maaza Mengiste (W.W. Norton)
- The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson (Random House)
- The Quickening, by Michelle Hoover (Other Press)
- The Wake of Forgiveness, by Bruce Machart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Young Adult Honor Awards
- Bamboo People, by Mitali Perkins (Charlesbridge)
- Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver (HarperCollins)
- Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
- Out of My Mind, by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum)
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green and David Levithan (Dutton Juvenile)
E.B. White Read-Aloud Award – Middle Reader Honor Awards
- Because of Mr. Terupt, by Rob Buyea (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
- The Familiars, by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson (HarperCollins)
- Penny Dreadful, by Laurel Snyder, Abigail Halpin (Illus.) (Random House Books for Young Readers)
- The Sixty-Eight Rooms, by Marianne Malone, Greg Call (Illus.) (Random House Books for Young Readers)
- A Tale Dark and Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz (Dutton Juvenile)
E.B. White Read-Aloud Award – Picture Book Honor Awards
- Bedtime for Bear, by Brett Helquist (HarperCollins)
- Chicken Big, by Keith Graves (Chronicle Books)
- Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, by Eric Litwin, James Dean (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
- A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea, by Michael Ian Black, Kevin Hawkes (Illus.) (Simon & Shuster)
- The Quiet Book, by Deborah Underwood, Renata Liwska (Illus.) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Most Engaging Author Honor Awards
- Jonathan Evison
- Kevin Henkes
- Mitali Perkins
- Richard Russo
- Terry Tempest Williams
