Indie Booksellers Award Longlist

Melville House publishers have announced the longlist for the first Independent Booksellers Choic e Award. A quick read shows that this award, in a crowded field of book awards, will be different. Most of the books are from small, independent presses. Of the 30 books nominated, I have only heard of 10 of them. I like to think that I keep up with this sort of thing, so it’s a humbling list. The two that I’ve read, Orion You Came and Took All My Marbles (review) and The Windup Girl (review) definitely qualify as off-kilter titles. I’m looking forward to seeing how this one plays out. I’ll have to read the winner on principle.