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 [1] 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 Tiger’s 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 [2] 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 [3], which start at 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., respectively in Room 1E12/13.