2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards

Contents 1 Adult Fiction Winner 2 Adult Fiction Honor Books 3 Adult Nonfiction Winner 4 Adult Nonfiction Honor Books 5 Children's Literature Winner 6 Children's Literature Honor Books 7 Children's Illustrated Winner 8 Children's Illustrated Honor Books 9 References

Adult Fiction Winner

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Adult Fiction Honor Books

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
• Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
• Away by Amy Bloom
• Run by Ann Patchett

Adult Nonfiction Winner

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver (HarperCollins)

Adult Nonfiction Honor Books

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
• The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam
• The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs

Children's Literature Winner

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)

Children's Literature Honor Books

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown Young Readers)
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Young Readers)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
• The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)

Children's Illustrated Winner

• Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children)

Children's Illustrated Honor Books

• Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy by Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss-Glasser (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
• Pirates Don't Change Diapers by Melinda Long, David Shannon (Illus.) (Harcourt Children's Books)
• The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis (Frances Foster Books/FSG)
• Llama Llama Mad at Mama by Anna Dewdney (Viking Juvenile/Penguin Young Readers Group)

References

• http://www.bookweb.org/btw/awards/BSBY.html