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March 21, 2008 · 2 Comments

Book Sense

The winners of the 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards, honoring the titles ABA members most enjoyed handselling, are:

  • 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)

The awards will be presented at ABA’s annual Celebration of Bookselling on Thursday, May 29, at Hotel ABA (the Renaissance Hollywood) during BookExpo America. For the honor titles, click here.

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