Book Sense Book of the Year Award Winners
The Book Sense Book of the Year Award, also known as the BSBY Award, was inaugurated at BookExpo America 2000. The books on each list represent a comb...more
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Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
by Mo Willems   4.24 avg rating — 5,573 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Illustrated (2008)
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick 4.22 avg rating — 40,966 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature (2008)
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
by Barbara Kingsolver 4.03 avg rating — 41,633 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction (2008)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini 4.27 avg rating — 237,968 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2008)
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Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen 4.06 avg rating — 386,603 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2007)
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Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
by Isabella Hatkoff 4.27 avg rating — 756 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Illustrated (2007)
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron  3.38 avg rating — 8,136 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction (2007)
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 185,123 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature (2007)
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Inkspell (Inkheart, #2)
by Cornelia Funke  3.87 avg rating — 30,194 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature (2006)
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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova 3.68 avg rating — 79,061 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Best Adult Fiction (2006)
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt 3.77 avg rating — 190,574 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction (2006)
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Zen Shorts
by Jon J. Muth 4.29 avg rating — 3,222 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Illustrated (2006)
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Duck for President
by Doreen Cronin 3.97 avg rating — 1,610 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Illustrated (2005)
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Chasing Vermeer
by Blue Balliett 3.72 avg rating — 7,683 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature (2005)
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Shadow Divers
by Robert Kurson 4.23 avg rating — 4,927 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction (2005)
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke 3.73 avg rating — 49,893 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2005)
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd 3.88 avg rating — 426,894 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Paperback (2004)
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How I Became a Pirate
by Melinda Long 4.03 avg rating — 5,950 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Illustrated (2004)
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Eragon
by Christopher Paolini 3.66 avg rating — 314,105 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature (2004)
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown 3.61 avg rating — 786,443 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2004)
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads Author) 3.44 avg rating — 43,971 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction (2004)
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold 3.66 avg rating — 580,853 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2003)
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
by Alexandra Fuller 3.91 avg rating — 13,954 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction (2003)
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Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School
by Mark Teague 4.09 avg rating — 1,093 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Illustrated (2003)
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The Children of Green Knowe
by L.M. Boston 4.00 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Rediscovery (2003)
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett 3.84 avg rating — 68,992 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Paperback (2003)
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The Thief Lord
by Cornelia Funke 3.86 avg rating — 24,820 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature (2003)
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Olivia Saves the Circus
by Ian Falconer 4.12 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Illustrated (2002)
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Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger 3.91 avg rating — 26,576 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2002)
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My Father's Dragon
by Ruth Stiles Gannett 4.10 avg rating — 5,438 ratings
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Rediscovery (2002)
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