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