The American Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of the 2016 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, as voted by independent booksellers nationwide.

For more information about the Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, click here.
 

2016 Winners

Adult Fiction Book of the Year

• FATES AND FURIES by Lauren Groff (Riverhead)

Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year

• BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau)

Adult Debut Book of the Year

• KITCHENS OF THE GREAT MIDWEST by J. Ryan Stradal (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking)

Young Adult Book of the Year
Due to a tie in the voting, there are two winners this year for Young Adult Book of the Year:

• ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN by Gavriel Savit (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• NIMONA by Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)

E. B. White Read-Aloud Award - Middle Reader

• THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH by Ali Benjamin (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

E. B. White Read-Aloud Award - Picture Book

• MOTHER BRUCE by Ryan T. Higgins (Disney-Hyperion)

Indie Champion Award
The Indie Champion Award is presented to the author, illustrator or group that, in the opinion of booksellers, has the best sense of the importance of independent bookstores to their communities at large and the strongest personal commitment to foster and support the mission and passion of independent booksellers. This year's winner is:

• Richard Russo

2016 Finalists

Adult Fiction Book of the Year

• CITY ON FIRE by Garth Risk Hallberg (Knopf)
• FATES AND FURIES by Lauren Groff (Riverhead)
• GET IN TROUBLE: Stories, by Kelly Link (Random House)
• A LITTLE LIFE by Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday)
• THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
• WELCOME TO BRAGGSVILLE by T. Geronimo Johnson (William Morrow)

Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year

• BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau)
• DEAD WAKE: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson (Crown)
• DON'T SUCK, DON'T DIE: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt, by Kristin Hersh (University of Texas Press)
• H IS FOR HAWK by Helen Macdonald (Grove Press)
• HOLD STILL: A Memoir With Photographs, by Sally Mann (Little, Brown & Company)
• WHERE THE DEAD PAUSE, AND THE JAPANESE SAY GOODBYE: A Journey, by Marie Mutsuki Mockett (W.W. Norton & Company)

Adult Debut Book of the Year

• BETWEEN YOU AND ME: Confessions of a Comma Queen, by Mary Norris (W.W. Norton & Company)
• DRAGONFISH by Vu Tran (W.W. Norton & Company)
• KITCHENS OF THE GREAT MIDWEST by J. Ryan Stradal (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking)
• THE MEURSAULT INVESTIGATION by Kamel Daoud (Other Press)
• OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS by Claire Fuller (Tin House Books)
• THE TURNER HOUSE by Angela Flournoy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Young Adult Book of the Year

• ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN by Gavriel Savit (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• DUMPLIN' by Julie Murphy (Balzer + Bray)
• MORE HAPPY THAN NOT by Adam Silvera (Soho Teen)
• NIMONA by Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)
• SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA by Becky Albertalli (Balzer + Bray)
• SYMPHONY FOR THE CITY OF THE DEAD: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad, by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick)

E. B. White Read-Aloud Award - Middle Reader

• THE BLACKTHORN KEY by Kevin Sands (Aladdin)
• CRENSHAW by Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
• GEORGE by Alex Gino (Scholastic Press)
• ROLLER GIRL by Victoria Jamieson (Dial Books for Young Readers)
• THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH by Ali Benjamin (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• UNUSUAL CHICKENS FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL POULTRY FARMER by Kelly Jones (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

E. B. White Read-Aloud Award - Picture Book

• LEO: A Ghost Story, by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Christian Robinson (Chronicle Books)
• MOTHER BRUCE by Ryan T. Higgins (Disney-Hyperion)
• THE PRINCESS AND THE PONY by Kate Beaton (Arthur A. Levine Books)
• RED: A Crayon’s Story, by Michael Hall (Greenwillow)
• TOYS MEET SNOW: Being the Wintertime Adventures of a Curious Stuffed Buffalo, a Sensitive Plush Stingray, and a Book-Loving Rubber Ball, by Emily Jenkins, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (Schwartz & Wade)
• WAITING by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)

The Indie Champion Award is presented to the author, illustrator or group that, in the opinion of booksellers, has the best sense of the importance of independent bookstores to their communities at large and the strongest personal commitment to foster and support the mission and passion of independent booksellers.

Indie Champion Award

• Dave Eggers
• Louise Erdrich
• Loren Long
• Celeste Ng
• Richard Russo
• Maggie Stiefvater