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The winners in both adult and children's categories are those titles that independent booksellers most enjoyed selling and recommending during the last year. The books were voted for by the owners and staff of ABA members bookstores across America.

Susanna Clarke won the adult fiction category for her novel Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell. The nonfiction award went to Robert Kurson author of Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II.

The children's' literature prize was won by Blue Balliett for Chasing Vermeer and the children's illustrated category went to Duck for President by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin.

Each winning author will receive $5,000 and an engraved Tiffany glass prism. The prizes will be presented to the authors during the ABA's annual Celebration of Bookselling in June in New York. The Celebration of Bookselling brings together independent booksellers, publishers, and the media to toast the spirit of independent bookselling in America.

The American Booksellers Book of the Year (ABBY) Award was established in 1991 to honor the "hidden treasures" that ABA bookstore members most enjoyed recommending to their customers during the previous year. The children's award was added in 1993.

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