The American Booksellers Association has respectively nominated both An American Marriage and Tayari Jones for the 2019 Indies Choice Book of the Year Award (Fiction), and the Indies Champion Award. ABA booksellers will have the chance to vote in online balloting between April 3 and April 24, and the winners will be announced in Bookselling This Week on Wednesday, May 1. The Indie Champion Award “is presented to the author, illustrator, or group that, in the opinion of booksellers, has the best sense of the importance of independent bookstores to their communities at large and the strongest personal commitment to foster and support the mission and passion of independent booksellers.”

For more information about this year’s nominees, click here.