2008 Booksense, RITA, and Triangle Awards

The winners of the 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards have been announced. These awards honor the titles American Booksellers' Asoociation members most enjoyed handselling:
* Fiction: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
* Nonfiction: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
* Children's Literature: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
* Children's Illustrated: Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems
The awards will be presented at ABA's annual Celebration of Bookselling on Thursday, May 29, during BookExpo America. For the honor titles, click here.

RITA Awards Finalists:
The finalists for the RITA and Golden Heart Awards, which honor romance fiction and the best in unpublished romance manuscripts, respectively, are available at the Romance Writers of America's website . The winners will be announced on August 2 during RWA's 28th annual national conference in San Francisco, Calif.

Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists:
Finalists for the Publishing Triangle's 20th annual Triangle Awards have been announced. Click here for details.
2008 Triangle Awards, honor the best lesbian and gay fiction, non-fiction, and poetry published in 2007.