The American Booksellers Association (ABA) revealed the finalists for the Indies Choice Book Awards this week. The awards cover six categories: adult fiction, adult nonfiction, adult debut, young adult, picture book hall of fame, and most engaging author.
ABA members will select the winners by submitting votes for their favorites in each category. Voting opens on March 31st and the results will be revealed on April 7th. Follow the jump to see this year’s nominees in a few of the top categories.
Since the ABA and Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) have merged, the ABC’s E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards will replace the Middle Reader and New Picture Book categories at the Indies Choice Book Awards.
The E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards honors books that lend themselves particularly well to being read aloud. These awards recognize those in the middle reader and new picture book categories.
Indies Choice Book Awards Finalists
BOOK OF THE YEAR – ADULT FICTION
Great House, by Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton)
How to Read the Air, by Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead)
Room, by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)
The Surrendered, by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (Random House)
A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
BOOK OF THE YEAR – YOUNG ADULT
Bamboo People, by Mitali Perkins (Charlesbridge)
Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver (HarperCollins)
Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Out of My Mind, by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum)
Revolution, by Jennifer Donnelly (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green and David Levithan (Dutton Juvenile)
BOOK OF THE YEAR – ADULT DEBUT
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, by Maaza Mengiste (W.W. Norton)
The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson (Random House)
Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes (Atlantic Monthly Press and El León Literary Arts)
The Quickening, by Michelle Hoover (Other Press)
The Wake of Forgiveness, by Bruce Machart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
MOST ENGAGING AUTHOR
Laurie Halse Anderson
Jonathan Evison
Kevin Henkes
Mitali Perkins
Richard Russo
Terry Tempest Williams
E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards Finalists
E.B. WHITE READ-ALOUD AWARD – MIDDLE READER
Because of Mr. Terupt, by Rob Buyea (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
The Familiars, by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson (HarperCollins)
Penny Dreadful, by Laurel Snyder, Abigail Halpin (Illus.) (Random House Books for Young Readers)
The Sixty-Eight Rooms, by Marianne Malone, Greg Call (Illus.) (Random House Books for Young Readers)
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, by Tom Angleberger (Amulet Books)
A Tale of Dark and Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz (Dutton Juvenile)
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)
Corduroy, by Don Freeman (Viking)
Curious George, by H.A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Goodnight Gorilla, by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (Grosset & Dunlap / Philomel)
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Napping House, by Audrey Wood, Don Wood (Illus.) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking)
Stellaluna, by Janelle Cannon (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle (Philomel)
Editor’s Note: This post was updated to include a missing category.