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Indies Choice and E.B. White Book Award 2012

Awards

Indies Choice and E.B. White Book Award 2012

A record-breaking number of independent booksellers nationwide cast their ballots in March, and on April 4, 2012 the American Booksellers Association announced the winners of the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards.

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) Indies Choice Book Awards recognize the array of unique and thought-provoking titles championed by independent bookstores nationwide. In addition to the winners, 5 honor books and authors are selected for each of the six categories.

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2012 Winners

Book of the Year - Adult Fiction
THE MARRIAGE PLOT by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Book of the Year - Adult Nonfiction
BLOOD, BONES & BUTTER: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House)

Book of the Year - Adult Debut
THE TIGER'S WIFE by Téa Obreht (Random House)

Book of the Year - Young Adult
BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY by Ruta Sepetys (Philomel)

E. B. White Read-Aloud Award - Middle Reader
(Balloting ended in a tie between the works of sister and brother Maile Meloy and Colin Meloy.)
THE APOTHECARY by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr (Illus.) (Putnam Juvenile)
WILDWOOD by Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.) (Balzer + Bray)

E. B. White Read-Aloud Award - Picture Book
CURIOUS GEORGE by H.A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD by Watty Piper (Grosset & Dunlap / Philomel)
MISS RUMPHIUS by Barbara Cooney (Viking Juvenile/Puffin)

Most Engaging Author
Ann Patchett


2012 Finalists

Book of the Year - Adult Fiction
THE CAT'S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf)
EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL BEGAN AFTER by Simon Van Booy (Harper Perennial)
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel (Trans.) (Knopf)
THE MARRIAGE PLOT by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
SALVAGE THE BONES by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury USA)
WINGSHOOTERS by Nina Revoyr (Akashic Books)

Book of the Year - Adult Nonfiction
BLOOD, BONES & BUTTER: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House)
BLUE NIGHTS by Joan Didion (Knopf)
CATHERING THE GREAT: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie (Random House)
MIDNIGHT RISING: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, by Tony Horwitz (Henry Holt & Co.)
TOWNIE: A Memoir, by Andre Dubus III (W.W. Norton)
WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR by Karl Marlantes (Atlantic Monthly Press)

Book of the Year - Adult Debut
THE ART OF FIELDING by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown)
MOURAD: New Moroccan, by Mourad Lahlou (Artisan)
RULES OF CIVILITY by Amor Towles (Viking Adult)
THE TIGER'S WIFE by Téa Obreht (Random House)
WE THE ANIMALS by Justin Torres (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
YOU KNOW WHEN THE MEN ARE GONE by Siobhan Fallon (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)

Book of the Year - Young Adult
AU REVOIR, CRAZY EUROPEAN CHICK by Joe Schreiber (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY by Ruta Sepetys (Philomel)
LEGEND by Marie Lu (Putnam Juvenile)
A MONSTER CALLS: Inspired by an Idea From Siobhan Dowd, by Patrick Ness, Jim Kay (Illus.) (Candlewick Press)
SHINE by Lauren Myracle (Amulet Books)
STEAMPUNK! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (Eds.) (Candlewick Press)

E. B. White Read-Aloud Award - Middle Reader
THE APOTHECARY by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr (Illus.) (Putnam Juvenile)
BLUEFISH by Pat Schmatz (Candlewick Press)
THE CHESHIRE CHEESE CAT: A Dickens of a Tale, by Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright, Barry Moser (Illus.) (Peachtree)
THE FLINT HEART by Katherine Paterson and John Paterson, John Rocco (Illus.) (Candlewick Press)
LIESL & PO by Lauren Oliver, Kei Acedera (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
WILDWOOD by Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.) (Balzer + Bray)

E. B. White Read-Aloud Award - Picture Book
I WANT MY HAT BACK by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press)
KING HUGO'S HUGE EGO by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick Press)
PRESS HERE by Hervé Tullet (Chronicle Books)
STARS by Mary Lyn Ray, Marla Frazee (Illus.) (Beach Lane Books)
OVER AND UNDER THE SNOW by Kate Messner, Christopher Silas Neal (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
GOODNIGHT, GOODNIGHT, CONSTRUCTION SITE by Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)

Picture Book Hall of Fame
BREAD AND JAM FOR FRANCES by Russell Hoban, Lillian Hoban (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR WHAT DO YOU SEE by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle (Henry Holt & Co.)
CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
CURIOUS GEORGE by H.A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
GOODNIGHT GORILLA by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam Juvenile/Puffin)
LILLY'S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD by Watty Piper (Grosset & Dunlap / Philomel)
MISS RUMPHIUS by Barbara Cooney (Viking Juvenile/Puffin)
THE NAPPING HOUSE by Audrey Wood, Don Wood (Illus.) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
STREGA NONA by Tomie dePaola (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Aladdin)
STELLALUNA by Janell Cannon (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
THE TRUE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith (Illus.) (Viking Juvenile/Puffin)

Most Engaging Author
M.T. Anderson
John Green
Walter Mosley
Ann Patchett
Richard Russo
Brian Selznick