ABA Booksellers Lounge to Feature Author Reception

New this year, the American Booksellers Association will host the E.B. White Read-Aloud and Indies Choice Book Award Author Reception in the ABA Booksellers Lounge (Room 1E07/08 of the Javits Convention Center) on Tuesday, June 5, from 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m., immediately following the Celebration of Bookselling Luncheon [1] at BookExpo America [2].

A limited number of each author’s books will be available for signing at the reception, which is open exclusively to ABA member booksellers.

Authors and illustrators scheduled to appear are:

• M.T. Anderson, Feed: 10th Anniversary Edition (Candlewick)
• Carmen Agra Deedy, The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale (Peachtree)
• Andre Dubus III, Townie: A Memoir (W.W. Norton)
• Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Siobhan Fallon, You Know When the Men Are Gone (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
• John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton Juvenile)
• Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood, Bones & Butter (Random House)
• Jon Klassen, I Want My Hat Back (Candlewick)
• Tom Lichtenheld, Good Night, Good Night, Construction Site (Chronicle Books)
• Marie Lu, Legend (Putnam Juvenile)
• Maile Meloy, The Apothecary (Putnam Juvenile)
• Kate Messner, Over and Under the Snow (Chronicle Books)
• Christopher Silas Neal, Over and Under the Snow (Chronicle Books)
• Tèa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (Random House)
• Ann Patchett, State of Wonder (HarperCollins)
• Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)
• Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray (Philomel)
• Amor Towles, Rules of Civility (Viking)
• Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After (Harper Perennial)
• Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury)

The lounge will close promptly at 3:00 p.m. following the reception, so that ABA members and staff can attend the association’s Town Hall and Annual Membership Meetings [3], which begin at 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., respectively, in Room 1E12/13 of the Javits Center.