Indies Choice Book Award Winners
2012
- Adult Fiction: The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Adult Nonfiction: Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House)
- Adult Debut: The Tiger’s Wife, by Téa Obreht (Random House)
- Young Adult: Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys (Philomel)
- Most Engaging Author: Ann Patchett
- Middle Reader: The Apothecary, by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr (Illus.) (Putnam Juvenile) and Wildwood, by Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.) (Balzer + Bray)
- Picture Book: I Want My Hat Back, by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press)
- Picture Book Hall of Fame Inductees:
- Curious George, by H.A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (Grosset & Dunlap / Philomel)
- Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney (Viking Juvenile/Puffin)
2011
- Adult Fiction: Room, Emma Donoghue
- Adult Nonfiction: Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
- Adult Debut: Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes
- Young Adult: Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly
2010
- Adult Fiction: Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
- Adult Nonfiction: The Lost City of Z, David Grann
- Adult Debut: The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- Young Adult: Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
- Middle Reader: When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
- New Picture Book: The Lion & the Mouse, Jerry Pinkney
- Most Engaging Author: Kate DiCamillo
2009
- Best Indie Buzz Book (Fiction): The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Best Conversation Starter (Nonfiction): The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
- Best Author Discovery: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
- Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book (Fiction): The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
- Best New Picture Book: Bats at the Library, Brian Lies
- Most Engaging Author: Sherman Alexie
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