The Australian Booksellers Association has announced the shortlisted titles for the Nielsen BookData 2008 Booksellers Choice Award. This is an award which recognises the book that booksellers most enjoyed reading or hand-selling in 2007.
The shortlisted works are:
Orpheus Lost (Janette Turner Hospital, Fourth Estate)
The Memory Room (Christopher Koch, Knopf)
4 Ingredients (Kim McCosker and Rachel Bermingham, 4 Ingredients)
The Peasant Prince (Li Cunxin, illus by Anne Spudvilas, Viking)
Maggie's Harvest (Maggie Beer, Lantern)
Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Guide to the Teenage Years (Kaz Cooke, Viking)
[Thanks to the Boomerang Books weblog for the note.]
