All Awards/Book Sense Book of the Year Award

Award

Book Sense Book of the Year Award

9 years tracked (2000–2008), 30 entries total.

2008

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini · Adult Fiction

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick · Children's Literature

2007

Markus Zusak · Children's Literature

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen · Adult Fiction

2006

Elizabeth Kostova · Best Adult Fiction

2005

Chasing Vermeer

Blue Balliett · Children's Literature

Duck for President

Doreen Cronin · Children's Illustrated

Robert Kurson · Adult Nonfiction

2004

Christopher Paolini · Children's Literature

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown · Adult Fiction

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd · Paperback

2003

Ann Patchett · Paperback

The Children of Green Knowe

Lucy M. Boston · Rediscovery

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold · Adult Fiction

2002

My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett · Rediscovery

Peace Like a River

Leif Enger · Adult Fiction

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Laura Hillenbrand · Adult Nonfiction

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Ann Brashares · Children's Literature

2001

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo · Children's Literature

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

Ross King · Adult Nonfiction

Ian Falconer · Children's Illustrated

Anita Diamant · Adult Fiction

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

Doreen Cronin · Children's Illustrated

Jerry Spinelli · Children's Literature

The Bad Beginning

Lemony Snicket · Children's Literature

The Giggler Treatment

Roddy Doyle · Children's Literature

Sharon Creech · Children's Literature

2000

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver · Adult

Christopher Paul Curtis · Children

Kent Haruf · Adult