40 Indie Favorites at ABA Author Lunch

Friday's ABA Author Lunch at BEA brought together 40 authors and illustrators and the independent booksellers who enjoyed handselling their work over the past year.

Authors and illustrators participating in the event were:

AUTHOR

TITLE

PUBLISHER

Sherman Alexie

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Little, Brown Young Readers

Sarah Addison Allen

Garden Spells: A Novel: The Sugar Queen

Random House (Bantam)

Annie Barrows

Ivy & Bean Series; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Chronicle; Random House (The Dial Press

Pseudonymous Bosch

The Name of This Book Is Secret

Little, Brown Young Readers

Ray Bradbury

Farewell Summer

William Morrow

Alan Brennert

Moloka'I

St. Martin's Griffin

Julie Buxbaum

The Opposite of Love: A Novel

Random House (Dial Press)

Lee Child

Bad Luck and Trouble

Random House (Delacorte)

Autumn Cornwell

Carpe Diem

Macmillan (Feiwel & Friends)

Marisa de los Santos

Belong to Me: A Novel

HarperCollins (Morrow)

Anna Dewdney

Llama Llama Mad at Mama

Penguin Young Readers Group

Robin Preiss Glasser

Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy

HarperCollins Children's

Andrew Sean Greer

The Story of a Marriage

Macmillan (FSG)

Jennifer Haigh

The Condition: A Novel

William Morrow / HarperCollins

Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Penguin Group (Riverhead)

Cynthia Kadohata

Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam

S&S Children's (Atheneum)

Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Abrams Books for Young Readers

Steve Kluger

My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park

Penguin Young Readers Group

R.L. LaFevers

Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos

Houghton Mifflin Children's

Adam Langer

Ellington Boulevard: A Novel in A-Flat

Random House (Spiegel & Grau)

James Lecesne

Absolute Brightness

HarperCollins Children's

Dennis Lehane

The Given Day: A Novel

William Morrow

Melissa Marr

Wicked Lovely

HarperCollins Children's

Neil McMahon

Dead Silver

Harper

Christopher Moore

Lamb, Gift Edition

William Morrow

Joseph Olshan

The Conversion

St. Martin's Press

Ann Patchett

Run: A Novel

Harper

Michael Reisman

Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper

Penguin Young Readers Group

Susan Richards

Chosen By a Horse; Chosen Forever

Soho Press

James Rollins

The Last Oracle

William Morrow

Brian Selznick

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Scholastic

David Shannon

Pirates Don't Change Diapers

Harcourt Children's Books

Marisa Silver

The God of War

Simon & Schuster

Garth Stein

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Harper

Neal Stephenson

Anathem

William Morrow

Trenton Lee Stewart

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Little, Brown Young Readers

Lisa Tucker

The Cure for Modern Life

Simon & Schuster

Marianne Wiggins

The Shadow Catcher

Simon & Schuster

David Wroblewski

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Ecco

Jane Yolen

Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry

Candlewick

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