2012 INDIES CHOICE / E.B. WHITE READ-ALOUD BOOK AWARD FINALISTS

Book of the Year - Adult Fiction


The Cat's Table: A Novel
Michael Ondaatje
Knopf

Everything Beautiful Began After: A Novel
Simon Van Booy
Harper Perennial

The Marriage Plot: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

1Q84: A Novel
Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
Knopf

Salvage the Bones: A Novel
Jesmyn Ward
Bloomsbury USA

Wingshooters: A Novel
Nina Revoyr
Akashic Books

Book of the Year - Adult Nonfiction


Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Gabrielle Hamilton
Random House

Blue Nights
Joan Didion
Knopf

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie
Random House

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Tony Horwitz
Henry Holt & Co.

Townie: A Memoir
Andre Dubus III
W. W. Norton & Company

What It Is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes
Atlantic Monthly Press

Book of the Year - Adult Debut


The Art of Fielding: A Novel
Chad Harbach
Little, Brown & Company

Mourad: New Moroccan
Mourad Lahlou
Artisan

Rules of Civility: A Novel
Amor Towles
Viking Adult

The Tiger's Wife: A Novel
Téa Obreht
Random House

We the Animals: A Novel
Justin Torres
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You Know When the Men Are Gone
Siobhan Fallon
Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam

Book of the Year - Young Adult


Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick
Joe Schreiber
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys
Philomel

Legend
Marie Lu
Putnam Juvenile

A Monster Calls: Inspired by an Idea from Siobhan Dowd
Patrick Ness, Jim Kay
Candlewick

Shine
Lauren Myracle
Amulet Books

Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant (Eds.)
Candlewick Press

E. B. White Read-Aloud Award - Middle Reader


The Apothecary
Maile Meloy
Putnam Juvenile

Bluefish
Pat Schmatz
Candlewick

The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale
Carmen Agra Deedy & Randall Wright, Barry Moser
Peachtree

The Flint Heart
Katherine and John Paterson, John Rocco
Candlewick

Liesl & Po
Lauren Oliver
HarperCollins

Wildwood
Colin Meloy
Balzer + Bray

E. B. White Read-Aloud Award - Picture Book


I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen
Candlewick

King Hugo's Huge Ego
Chris Van Dusen
Candlewick

Press Here
Herve Tullet, Octavia Monaco
Chronicle Books

Stars
Mary Lyn Ray
Beach Lane Books

Over and Under the Snow
Kate Messner
Chronicle Books

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
Sherri Duskey Rinker
Chronicle Books

Picture Book Hall of Fame


Bread and Jam for Frances
Russel Hoban & Lillian Hoban
HarperCollins

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See
Bill Martin & Eric Carle
Henry Holt & Co.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Bill Martin, Jr. & John Archambault & Lois Ehlert
Simon & Schuster

Curious George
H.A. Rey
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Good Night Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann
Putnam Juvenile

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
Kevin Henkes
Greenwillow

The Little Engine That Could
Watty Piper
Grosset & Dunlap / Philomel

Miss Rumphius
Barbara Cooney
Viking Juvenile/PuffiViking Juvenile/Puffin

Napping House
Audrey Wood
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Strega Nona
Tomie dePaola
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Aladdin

Stellaluna
Janell Cannon
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Jon Scieszka
Viking Juvenile/Puffin

Most Engaging Author


M. T. Anderson

John Green

Walter Mosley

Ann Patchett

Richard Russo

Brian Selznick