Borders Original Voices

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The Borders Original Voices program shines a deserving light on emerging and innovative authors and musicians. Winners will receive $5,000 from the company for their outstanding achievement in show more crafting creative, original books and music. In addition, the winners will be honored at a special breakfast reception during the annual BookExpo America convention in Washington, D.C. show less
Categories:
All, Fiction (4), Kids & Teens (1), Nonfiction (3), Picture Books (2), YA or Independent Reader (2), finalist (1), No Category (30)
Years:
All, 2009 (3), 2008 (5), 2007 (7), 2006 (5), 2005 (4), 2004 (4), 2003 (5), 2002 (4), 2001 (3), 2000 (2)
WorkCategoryYear
The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim
Fiction2009
After by Amy Efaw
Kids & Teens2009
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
Nonfiction2009
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Fiction2008
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Fiction2008
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
Nonfiction2008
Those Darn Squirrels! by Adam Rubin
Picture Books2008
I Am Apache by Tanya Landman
YA or Independent Reader2008
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
Nonfiction2007
Wolf! Wolf! by John Rocco
Picture Books2007
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
YA or Independent Reader2007
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
2007
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
2007
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
2007
Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor
2007
Dear Fish by Chris Gall
2006
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
2006
Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
2006
Russell the Sheep by Rob Scotton
2006
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
2006
The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue
finalist2005
Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan
2005
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2005
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
2005
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
2004
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
2004
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
2004
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein
2004
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Fiction2003
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
2003
Abarat by Clive Barker
2003
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
2003
Mrs. Biddlebox by Linda Smith
2003
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
2002
Under a War-Torn Sky by L. M. Elliott
2002
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
2002
The Tin Forest by Helen Ward
2002
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
2001
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
2001
Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
2001
Sam the Cat: and Other Stories by Matthew Klam
2000
Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
2000
Close Range by Annie Proulx
2000
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