Book Award

OFFICIAL CATEGORIES OF THE ANNUAL INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARDS®:

Action/Adventure
Addiction & Recovery
Adult Coloring Books
African American Fiction
African American Nonfiction
Aging/Midlife
Alternative Medicine
Animals: Pets
Anthology
Arts & Entertainment

Audiobook: Children's

Audiobook: Fiction

Audiobook: Nonfiction
Autobiography
Beauty
Biography: General
Biography: Historical
Body/Mind/Spirit
Book Cover Design Children Picture Books
Book Cover Design Fiction
Book Cover Design Nonfiction
Book Interior Design Fiction
Book Interior Design Nonfiction
Business: General
Business: Entrepreneurship & Small Business
Business: Motivational
Cancer, Survival
Career
Caregiving-Specialized
Caregiving-General

Chapter Books
Chick-Lit
Childrens: Inspirational/Motivational
Childrens: Fiction

Childrens: Nonfiction

Childrens: Religion Fiction

Childrens: Religion Nonfiction

Christian

Coffee Table Book
Comedy
Comics and Graphic Novels

Computer
Contemporary Novel
Cookbooks: General
Cookbooks: International
Cookbooks: Regional
Crafts-Hobbies
Crime Fiction
Crime-True

Cross Genre

Cultural and Social Issues
Current Events
Death & Dying
Diet & Nutrition
Divorce
Education
Entertainment
Environment

Epic Fantasy
Erotica
Fantasy

Fashion

Finance
Fine Arts
Fitness
Friendship
General Fiction
Gift Books
Green
Grief
Health & Fitness
Historical Fiction
History: United States
History: World

Holiday
Home & Garden
Horror

How-to
Humor
Inspiration

Judaism
Juvenile Fiction
Juvenile Nonfiction
LGBTQ Fiction
LGBTQ Nonfiction
LGBT Fiction for Children & Young Adults
Leadership
Legal Thriller
Literary Fiction
Marketing & Public Relations
Marriage
Medical Mystery
Medical Thriller
Memoir
Men’s Health

Middle Grade

Military Fiction
Military Nonfiction

Mind, Body, Spirit
Miscellaneous
Motivational
Movies and Television
Multicultural
Music
Mystery
Nature
New Adult Fiction
New Adult Nonfiction
New Fiction (First time published)
New Nonfiction (First time published)
Nonfiction

Paranormal Mystery/Thriller

Paranormal Romance
Parenting & Family
Performing Arts - Film, Theater, Dance & Music
Personal Finance

Personal Growth
Philosophy
Photography
Picture Books - Preschool
Picture Books - Ages 4-8
Picture Books - All Ages
Poetry
Political
Political Thriller
Pregnancy & Childbirth

Preteen Fiction
Preschool & Early Reader

Psychiatry/Psychology
Public Relations
Reference
Relationships
Religion: Fiction
Religion: Nonfiction
Romance
Romantic Comedy

Romantic Suspense
Sales & Marketing
Science Fiction
Self Help: General
Self Help: Motivational
Self Help: Spiritual
Sexuality
Short Stories
Small Books
Social/Political Change
Social Media
Specialty Books
Spirituality
Sports
Steampunk
Suspense
Technology

Teen
Thriller
Travel
True Crime

Urban Fantasy
Visionary Fiction
Well-Being
Western Fiction
Western Nonfiction
Women’s Fiction
Women’s Issues
Women’s Health

World Literature
Writing and Publishing
Young Adult Fiction
Young Adult Nonfiction