Leading Website Announces Annual Book Awards
The winners are:
The BookBrowse Diamond Award for Most Popular Book:
Closers by Michael Connelly
The BookBrowse Sapphire Award for Most Popular Debut:
Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
The BookBrowse Ruby Award for Most Popular Category:
Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Davina Morgan-Witts, CEO and founder of BookBrowse.com, said, "I am proud to announce these awards, and pass on our congratulations to the authors".
Morgan-Witts continued: "The awards are unique in the industry, firstly, because of the high numbers of votes cast; and secondly because the scoring process is designed to recognize books on the basis of quality, not simply popularity."
Over 5,500 votes were cast for these awards. To ensure a truly independent process, only registered BookBrowse subscribers were able to vote; and a five point rating scale ensured that the awards were given to the books deemed to be of the highest quality, not simply the ones that had been most widely read.
Award FAQ & Photos:
http://bookbrowse.com/information/index.cfm?fuseaction=awards
About BookBrowse: BookBrowse.com recommends only the most exceptional books, so that you spend more time reading books and less time finding them. Best of all, with a substantial excerpt and multiple reviews of each title, you have everything you need to make your own decision; plus you will find hundreds of interviews, reading guides, and much else besides.
BookBrowse was founded by Davina Morgan-Witts in 1997, and currently delivers over 1 million page views a month.
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About The Books:
The Closers by Michael Connelly is a new mystery thriller by this popular author, with Detective Harry Bosch of the LAPD returning to close baffling unsolved cases. It was first release in hardback May 2005 by Little Brown and Co., and was released in paperback in February 2006.
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall - "A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy" - is a delighful childrens book about an unusual family enjoying a summer holiday on the grounds of a beautiful estate - and the people they meet, and how it changes all of their lives. Published in hardcover by Knopf in June 2005.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the weeks and months during the critical illness of her daughter and the sudden and unexpected death of her husband "that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." Published in hardcover October 2005 by Knopf.
Read more about all three at:
http://www.bookbrowse.com/
Author Information
Davina Morgan-witts
BOOKBROWSE LLC
