2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards

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]

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

• Eragon: The Inheritance, Book I by Christopher Paolini (Knopf)

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)

References