Borders Original Voices Award Winners
The annual Original Voices Awards, presented by Borders Group, Inc., recognizes "fresh, compelling, and ambitious works from new and emerging talents....more
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by Amy Efaw (Goodreads Author)    368 avg rating — 5266 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Kids & Teens (2009)
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The Calligrapher's Daughter
by Eugenia Kim (Goodreads Author) 372 avg rating — 1674 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction (2009)
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
by Matthew B. Crawford 364 avg rating — 2095 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2009)
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The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway 397 avg rating — 5880 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction (2008)
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I Am Apache
by Tanya Landman 395 avg rating — 228 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for YA or Independent Reader (2008)
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Those Darn Squirrels!
by Adam Rubin  413 avg rating — 262 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Picture Books (2008)
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner 376 avg rating — 8513 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2008)
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The Raw Shark Texts
by Steven Hall (Goodreads Author) 384 avg rating — 5414 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction (2007)
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)
by Jeff Kinney 392 avg rating — 44288 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for YA or Independent Reader (2007)
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Wolf! Wolf!
by John Rocco 416 avg rating — 62 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Picture Books (2007)
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
by Peter Godwin (Goodreads Author) 411 avg rating — 2257 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2007)
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The Brief History of the Dead
by Kevin Brockmeier 364 avg rating — 4832 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction (2006)
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan 401 avg rating — 8767 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2006)
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Fancy Nancy
by Jane O'Connor 415 avg rating — 6437 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Picture Books (2006)
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Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1)
by Catherine Gilbert Murdock 381 avg rating — 8281 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for YA or Independent Reader (2006)
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Elsewhere
by Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author) 391 avg rating — 16788 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for YA or Independent Reader (2005)
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Russell the Sheep
by Rob Scotton 406 avg rating — 672 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Picture Books (2005)
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
by Emma Larkin 386 avg rating — 859 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2005)
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The History of Love
by Nicole Krauss 385 avg rating — 44849 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction (2005)
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Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
by Katherine Hannigan 386 avg rating — 7018 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for YA or Independent Reader (2004)
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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
by Mo Willems 428 avg rating — 10342 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Picture Books (2004)
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
by Julian Rubinstein (Goodreads Author) 404 avg rating — 1026 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2004)
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 417 avg rating — 77760 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction (2004)
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini 416 avg rating — 589831 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction (2003)
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 420 avg rating — 4632 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2003)
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The Dot
by Peter H. Reynolds 442 avg rating — 2520 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Picture Books (2003)
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A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly 380 avg rating — 13135 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for YA or Independent Reader (2003)
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Abarat (Abarat, #1)
by Clive Barker 405 avg rating — 7704 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for YA or Independent Reader (2002)
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Mrs. Biddlebox
by Linda Smith 426 avg rating — 95 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Picture Books (2002)
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande 415 avg rating — 8358 ratings
Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2002)
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