2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
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Book Sense was a marketing and branding program of the American Booksellers Association which ran until 2008. This page details the awards distributed at the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards ceremony.[1][2]
Contents
Adult Fiction
Winner
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Shortlist
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Doubleday)
- The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins)
- Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh (Morrow)
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (MacAdam/Cage)
Adult Nonfiction
Winner
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (Random House)
Shortlist
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (Crown)
- Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley (Little, Brown)
- Michelangelo & The Pope's Ceiling by Ross King (Walker)
- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (Random House)
Children's Literature
Winner
Shortlist
- Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Book 3) by Eoin Colfer (Miramax)
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House/Scholastic)
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares (Delacorte)
- The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Timothy Basil Ering (Candlewick)
Children's Illustrated
Winner
- How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long; illus. by David Shannon (Harcourt)
Shortlist
- Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French; illus. by Bruce Whatley (Clarion Books)
- Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin; illus. by Harry Bliss (Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins)
- Old Turtle and the Broken Truth by Douglas Wood; illus. by Jon J. Muth (Scholastic)
- Olivia ... and the Missing Toy by Ian Falconer (Atheneum)
Paperback
Winner
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)
Shortlist
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (Anchor)
- The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer (Vintage)
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (Perennial)
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Harvest)
