The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association has named its finalists for the 2009 SCIBA Book Awards.

The awards honor fiction, nonfiction, mystery and children’s books by Southern California writers. This year, indie booksellers have added a new category — the Glenn Goldman Art & Architecture Book Award — in honor of the beloved founder of West Hollywood’s Book Soup. We are especially proud to announce that CaliforniaAuthors’ own Donna Wares is nominated in this new category with photographer Rick Rickman for their book, The Wonder Years.

Winners will be announced Oct. 24 at the annual Author’s Feast in Los Angeles. Here’s the complete list of finalists:

Fiction

The Signal by Ron Carlson (Penquin)
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (Random House)
The Women by T.C. Boyle (Penquin)

Eat Los Angeles by Colleen Dunn Bates (Prospect Park Books)
Losing My Religion by William Lobdell (HarperCollins)
Celebrating with Julienne by Susan Campoy (Prospect Park Books)

Trust No One by Greg Hurwitz (St. Martins)
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (Ballantine Books)
The Grift by Debra Ginsberg (Shaye Areheart Books)

Hunger by Michael Grant (HarperCollins)
Pendragon Book Ten: Soldiers of Halla by D. J. MacHale (Simon & Schuster)
The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice (HarperCollins)

Pete and Pickles by Berkeley Breathed (Penguin)
Too Many Toys by David Shannon (Scholastic)
Our Library by Eve Bunting (Houghton Mifflin)

Glenn Goldman Art & Architecture Book Award

The Wonder Years by Rick Rickman & Donna Wares (Chronicle Books)
Faces of Sunset Boulevard by Patrick Ecclesine (Santa Monica Press)
Annie Liebowitz At Work by Annie Liebowitz (Random House)

Read more about the awards here.

Previously at CaliforniaAuthors.com: 2008 SoCal Book Awards.