Indie booksellers are going for double the book awards fun this week.
The Indies Choice Book Awards are back after a seven-year hiatus to celebrate the best titles that appeared on the ABA’s Indie Next List, Kids’ Indie Next List, and/or Indies Introduce lists in 2025. Among the winners announced yesterday:
- Adult Fiction: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, soon to be a movie starring Jane Fonda
- Adult Nonfiction: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, which also won the National Book Award for Nonfiction
- Young Adult: They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
- Debut Adult: Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams. See her list of 100+ Black-owned bookstores in the U.S.
Virginia Evans also took home the inaugural James Patterson + Bookshop.org Prize, announced on Monday. The prize, established to celebrate debut authors, comes with a $15,000 check. Milo Todd’s The Lilac People took the runner-up spot for $10,000.
🏆 See all of the Indies Choice winners and the full longlist for the James Patterson + Bookshop.org prize.