The
winners of the 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards -- recognizing those
titles independent booksellers most enjoyed handsellingduring the past year
-- as voted by the owners and staff of American Booksellers Association member
bookstores are:

Adult Fiction: The Historian: A Novel by Elizabeth Kostova
(Little, Brown)


Adult Nonfiction: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the
Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (William
Morrow)

I wish the nonfiction book had been something different; I've already read Freakonomics.