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Twenty in running for indie book of the year

21.08.07

The Booksellers Association has announced the shortlist for its inaugural Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year award. Ten adult books and ten children’s titles were selected by independent BA members from a longlist based on sales figures from indies.

Indies and their customers will be able to vote on their favourite adult and children's title from 10th October to 10th December, with votes to be made via email, special voting postcards, forms in the BA’s Christmas Catalogue and wholesalers’ catalogues. The winner will be announced in late December.

The adult books are:

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (HarperCollins)
Restless by William Boyd (Bloomsbury)
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (Transworld)
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Transworld)
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden (HarperCollins)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Random House)
Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That by Harry Mount (Short Books)
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Random House)
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (Quercus)
The Cloudspotter’s Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney (Hodder)

The children’s books are:

Checkmate by Malorie Blackman (Random House)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne (Random House)
My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever Never Fall Out by Lauren Child (Puffin)
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner (Orion)
Double or Die: Young Bond by Charlie Higson (Puffin)
The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo (HarperCollins)
Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Random House)
The End: Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (Egmont)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Random House)

Retail BA Indie Book of the Year

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