40 Authors & Illustrators to Take Part in Celebration Lunch

Next Tuesday’s ABA Celebration of Bookselling & Author Awards Luncheon will be a joyful occasion featuring 40 authors and illustrators, whose works independent booksellers across the nation have enthusiastically hand-sold and nominated to the Indie Next Lists. A highlight of the event will be the presentation of the E.B. White Read-Aloud and Indies Choice Book Awards to this year’s winners and honor recipients.

Following the Celebration, 20 of the participating authors — all of them 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud or Indies Choice award winners or honor recipients — will join indie booksellers for a special reception in the ABA Booksellers Lounge (Room 1E07/08 of the Javits Center).

Below is a list of the authors and illustrators attending the Celebration of Bookselling; those who will also be participating in the Author Reception are indicated by an asterisk (*).

  • Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes (Penguin)
  • M.T. Anderson,* Feed: 10th Anniversary Edition (Candlewick)
  • Wiley Cash, A Land More Kind Than Home (William Morrow)
  • Jennifer Chiaverini, The Wedding Quilt (Penguin)
  • Kris D’Agostino, The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac (Algonquin)
  • Stephen Dau, The Book of Jonas (Penguin)
  • Carmen Agra Deedy,* The Cheshire Cheese Cat (Peachtree)
  • Andre Dubus III,* Townie (W.W. Norton)
  • Jeffrey Eugenides,* The Marriage Plot (FSG)
  • Siobhan Fallon,* You Know When the Men Are Gone (Amy Einhorn/Putnam)
  • Kevin Fox, Until the Next Time (Algonquin)
  • Marla Frazee, Stars (Beach Lane Books/S&S)
  • Anna Funder, All That I Am (HarperCollins)
  • Lisa Genova, Left Neglected (Gallery/S&S)
  • Eli Gottlieb, The Face Thief (William Morrow)
  • John Green,* The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton Juvenile/PYRG)
  • Gabrielle Hamilton,* Blood, Bones & Butter (Random House)
  • Emily Jenkins, Invisible Inkling (Balzer & Bray/Harper)
  • Hillary Jordan, When She Woke (Algonquin)
  • Jon Klassen,* I Want My Hat Back (Candlewick)
  • Tom Lichtenheld,* Good Night, Good Night, Construction Site (Chronicle Books)
  • Marie Lu,* Legend (Putnam Juvenile/PYRG)
  • Maryann McFadden, The Book Lover (Three Women Press)
  • Maile Meloy,* The Apothecary (Putnam Juvenile/PYRG)
  • Kate Messner,* Over and Under the Snow (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
  • Christopher Silas Neal,* Over and Under the Snow (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
  • Téa Obreht,* The Tigers Wife (Random House)
  • Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po (HarperCollins Children’s)
  • Ann Patchett,* Most Engaging Author (HarperCollins)
  • M.J. Rose, The Book of Lost Fragrances (Atria/S&S)
  • Joe Schreiber,* Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children’s)
  • Ruta Sepetys,* Between Shades of Gray (Philomel/PYRG)
  • Jessica Speart, Winged Obsession (William Morrow)
  • Charles and Caroline Todd, A Lonely Death; The Confession (William Morrow)
  • Amor Towles,* Rules of Civility (Viking)
  • Lily Tuck, I Married You for Happiness (Grove/Atlantic)
  • Simon Van Booy,* Everything Beautiful Began After (Harper Perennial)
  • Jesmyn Ward,* Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury)
  • Adam Wilson, Flatscreen (Harper Perennial)

The Celebration of Bookselling & Author Awards Luncheon will be held from 12:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5, in the Special Events Hall. Reservations are booked to capacity; however, ABA member booksellers without reservations can complete the Celebration reservations form online to have their names added to a waiting list. As cancellations are received, booksellers on the waiting list will be notified on a first-come, first-served basis.

Following the Celebration, the action will move to the ABA Booksellers Lounge, where, from 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m., the Author Reception will take place.

The lounge will close promptly at 2:45 p.m., so booksellers and staff can attend the ABA Town Hall and Annual Membership Meeting, which start at 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., respectively in Room 1E12/13.