Declare Your Independence with the Indies Choice Book of the Year Awards

The American Bookseller Association has announced their Indies Choice Book Award winners, and two of the big ones are Vintage Books paperbacks! Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese won in the adult fiction category (published in hardcover by Knopf) and The Lost City of Z won for adult nonfiction (published in hardcover by Doubleday).

Click here to visit the American Bookseller Association site for more information and a complete list of winners.

About Cutting for Stone
National Bestseller
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

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About The Lost City of Z
National Bestseller
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.

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