2013 Recap - Book Awards, cont.

 

Best Book That Deals with History

Tie: Elizabeth the Queen & Empty Mansions

Best Book That Deals with Religion or Faith

Tie: 7 & The World’s Strongest Librarian

Best Book That Deals with Food or Cooking or Chefs (non-cookbook)

Thanksgiving

Most Inspiring, Cathartic, or (Self-)Helpful

Carry On, Warrior

Best Book Set in a Foreign Country

Tie: Bringing Up Bébé & Home is a Roof over a Pig

Best Book Based on a Blog

Three-way tie:
Carry on, Warrior
The Honest Toddler
Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays

Best Book by an Author I’ve Read Before

Visiting Tom

Best Book by a Celebrity

Kate Gosselin’s Love is in the Mix

Best Book by a Politician or about Politics or Government

Tie: My Beloved World & No Higher Honor

Proud to be an American Award

American Life

Funniest Books

7
Carry on, Warrior
Cheaper by the Dozen
The Honest Toddler
The Pioneer Woman Cooks:  A Year of Holidays
The Tao of Martha
Visiting Tom
The World’s Strongest Librarian

Worst Cover

Tie: Dearie & When We Were the Kennedys

Best Book about Books or Reading

The End of Your Life Book Club

The “I Want to Write Like That” Award

When We Were the Kennedys

Biggest Surprise (in a good way)

Becoming Sister Wives

Weirdest Book

Beyond the Sling

10 Stinkers

Almost Amish
Beyond the Sling
Blue Nights
Comet’s Tale
Imperfect Harmony
The Key is Love
Maman’s Homesick Pie
Mother Teresa
Plain Secrets
Yes, Chef

Most Disappointing

Yes, Chef

Most Typos and Mistakes

Three-way Tie: 7, The Favored Daughter, Good Day! 

Most Charming

Cheaper by the Dozen
Dancers among Us
Julia’s Cats
Maddie on Things
Summer at Tiffany
Winnie-the-Pooh

Best Book about a Subject I’ve Never Read Before

Coming to My Senses

Toughest Read

Things That Matter

Thickest Read

No Higher Honor

Made Me Cry

Heaven is Here

Renewed My Faith in Mankind

Little Princes

Best Book about Animals

Dog Songs: Poems

10 Highly- and Widely-recommended Books That Lived up to The Hype

The Astronaut Wives Club
Bringing Up Bébé
Empty Mansions
The End of Your Life Book Club
Little Princes
Stag’s Leap
Summer at Tiffany
Visiting Tom
When We Were the Kennedys
Wild

Bestseller That Sorely Disappointed

Yes, Chef

 

Book I’m most glad I finally got around to
Visiting Tom

Oldest Book Read

Northanger Abbey

 

Books That Deserved More Praise
Becoming Sister Wives
Carry On, Warrior
Home is a Roof over a Pig
The Honest Toddler
The Hungry Ear
Julia’s Cats
The Spark
The World’s Strongest Librarian

 

Favorite Book Review

Elizabeth the Queen

 

Most Read Book Review/s*
122 Cheaper by the Dozen
7 Brining Up Bébé
37 Becoming Sister Wives
22 Where the Peacock Sings
20 My Berlin Kitchen
19 Comet’s Tale

*as of 12/16/13