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