ICA Bookshop: Book of the Year 2015

We're pleased to announce that the winner is... Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else by David Balzer.

‘Tis the season…To vote for the ICA Bookshop Book of the Year!

We’ve scoured our shelves and picked out our favourite and bestselling books published in paperback or hardback for the first time between 1 November 2014 and 1 November 2015! It’s a diverse list, ranging from art criticism to current affairs and poetry, but a decision needs to be made as to which is our book of the year.

Vote now for the chance to win great prizes! To enter the prize draw please leave your email address in the survey.

Please note that winners of the prize package will have to come in to the ICA for pick up - we won’t be able to post it to you, sorry!

So, all that’s left to do is peruse the list below and get voting!

This Year’s contenders for ICA Book of the Year:

• E-flux - The Internet Does Not Exist
• David Balzer - Curationism
• Juliet Jacques – Trans: A Memoir
• Miranda July – The First Bad Man
• Franco 'Bifo' Berardi - Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide
• Patrick Cockburn – Rise of Islamic State
• Max Porter - Grief is the Thing with Feathers
• Claudia Rankine – Citizen
• Grégoire Chamayou - Drone Theory
• Rebecca Solnit – Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays
• Boyd Mcdonald - Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV
• Ariella Azoulay - Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography
• Hal Foster – Bad News Days
• Gregor Hens – Nicotine
• Kayo Chingonyi – Some Bright Elegance

Voting and entry to the prize draw closes at midnight on Sunday 17 January. The winning book will be announced and the winner of the prize draw contacted in the week beginning 19 January. ■