Current and historical winners of the Indie Booksellers’ Choice Awards, with links to further information at BookBrowse.

Indie Booksellers’ Choice Awards

First awarded in 2011: “The award grew out of my distaste for most literary prizes,” explained Melville House’s Dennis Johnson. “The point is usually to laud some individual or book that doesn’t really need the stroking. We wanted to come up with something that would better support the ecosystem we live in. The IBCA is good for the author, good for the bookseller, and good for the publisher, and so it’s good for art and industry.”

Current and Previous Award Winners:

• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011

• 2018

  
  Indies Choice Adult Fiction:
  Sing, Unburied, Sing  by  Jesmyn Ward
  
  Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction:
  Killers of the Flower Moon  by  David Grann
  
  Indies Choice Adult Debut Book:
  Her Body and Other Parties  by  Carmen Maria Machado
  
  Indies Choice Young Adult Book:
  The Hate U Give  by  Angie Thomas

• 2017

  
  Indies Choice Adult Fiction:
  The Underground Railroad  by  Colson Whitehead
  
  Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction:
  The Hidden Life of Trees  by  Peter Wohlleben
  
  Indies Choice Adult Debut Book:
  Homegoing  by  Yaa Gyasi
  
  Indies Choice Young Adult Book:
  Salt to the Sea  by  Ruta Sepetys

• 2016

  
  Indies Choice Adult Fiction:
  Fates and Furies  by  Lauren Groff
  
  Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction:
  Between the World and Me  by  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  
  Indies Choice Adult Debut Book:
  Kitchens of the Great Midwest  by  J. Ryan Stradal

• 2015

  
  Indies Choice Adult Fiction:
  All the Light We Cannot See  by  Anthony Doerr
  
  Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction:
  Being Mortal  by  Atul Gawande
  
  Indies Choice Adult Debut Book:
  The Martian  by  Andy Weir
  
  Indies Choice Young Adult Book:
  The Darkest Part of the Forest  by  Holly Black

• 2014

  
  Indies Choice Adult Fiction:
  Life After Life  by  Kate Atkinson
  
  Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction:
  The Boys in the Boat  by  Daniel James Brown
  
  Indies Choice Adult Debut Book:
  A Constellation of Vital Phenomena  by  Anthony Marra
  
  Indies Choice Young Adult Book:
  Eleanor & Park  by  Rainbow Rowell

• 2013

  
  Indies Choice Adult Fiction:
  The Round House  by  Louise Erdrich
  
  Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction:
  Wild  by  Cheryl Strayed
  
  Indies Choice Adult Debut Book:
  The Snow Child  by  Eowyn Ivey
  
  Indies Choice Young Adult Book:
  The Fault in Our Stars  by  John Green

• 2012

  
  Indies Choice Adult Fiction:
  The Marriage Plot  by  Jeffrey Eugenides
  
  Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction:
  Blood, Bones & Butter  by  Gabrielle Hamilton
  
  Indies Choice Adult Debut Book:
  The Tiger's Wife  by  Téa Obreht
  
  Indies Choice Young Adult Book:
  Between Shades of Gray  by  Ruta Sepetys

• 2011

  
  Indies Choice Adult Fiction:
  Room  by  Emma Donoghue
  
  Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction:
  Unbroken  by  Laura Hillenbrand
  
  Indies Choice Adult Debut Book:
  Matterhorn  by  Karl Marlantes
  
  Indies Choice Young Adult Book:
  Revolution  by  Jennifer Donnelly