The American Booksellers Association has announced the finalists for the 2014 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards. Booksellers at ABA member stores across the country will choose the winners in eight categories, through online balloting, between now and April 11.

Every bookseller at an ABA member store will be able to vote, with one ballot per person will accepted. Each category will have one winner, with the exception of the Picture Book Hall of Fame, where booksellers will choose three inductees. The winners will be announced on April 17, and will be feted along with the honor book recipients at ABA’s Celebration of Bookselling Author Awards Luncheon on May 29 at BEA.

The finalists in the Indies Choice Book Award categories of Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, and Adult Debut were chosen by a jury of six ABA member booksellers from titles appearing on the 2013 Indie Next Lists. The finalists for the Indies Choice Book Award in the Young Adult category and for the E.B. White Read-Aloud Middle Reader and Picture Book awards were chosen by a jury of six children’s booksellers from the ABC Children’s Group at ABA. Finalists were chosen from titles appearing on the 2013 Kids’ Indie Next Lists, with additional titles for the E.B. White awards nominated by ABC Group members. The finalists for the 2014 Indie Champion Award were chosen by both juries.

All ABA member booksellers can cast their ballots here.

The 2014 Finalists:

BOOK OF THE YEAR – ADULT FICTION
Gun Machine: A Novel, by Warren Ellis (Mulholland Books)
Life After Life: A Novel, by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books)
Snow Hunters: A Novel, by Paul Yoon (Simon & Schuster)
The Son: A Novel, by Philipp Meyer (Ecco)
A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel, by Ruth Ozeki (Viking)
Tenth of December: Stories, by George Saunders (Random House)

BOOK OF THE YEAR – ADULT NONFICTION
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown (Viking)
Men We Reaped: A Memoir, by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury)
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, by Ari Shavit (Spiegel & Grau)
A Reader’s Book of Days: True Tales From the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year, by Tom Nissley, Joanna Neborsky (Illus.) (W.W. Norton)
The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese, by Michael Paterniti (Dial Press)
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, by Ann Patchett (Harper)

BOOK OF THE YEAR – ADULT DEBUT
Burial Rites: A Novel, by Hannah Kent (Little, Brown)
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel, by Anthony Marra (Hogarth)
The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel, by Helene Wecker (Harper)
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods: A Novel, by Matt Bell (Soho)
Norwegian by Night: A Novel, by Derek B. Miller (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
We Need New Names: A Novel, by NoViolet Bulawayo (Reagan Arthur Books)

BOOK OF THE YEAR – YOUNG ADULT
Dark Triumph, by Robin LaFevers (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Dream Thieves, by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)
Eleanor & Park: A Novel, by Rainbow Rowell (St. Martin’s Griffin)
More Than This, by Patrick Ness (Candlewick)
Rose Under Fire, by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion)
The Summer Prince, by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic/Levine)

E.B. WHITE READ-ALOUD AWARD – MIDDLE READER
Counting By 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan (Dial)
Flora and Ulysses, by Kate DiCamillo, illus. by K.G. Campbell (Candlewick)
The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail, by Richard Peck, illus. by Kelly Murphy (Dial)
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, by Karen Foxlee (Knopf)
Rooftoppers, by Katherine Rundell, illus. by Terry Fan (Simon & Schuster)
The Year of Billy Miller, by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)

E.B. WHITE READ-ALOUD AWARD – PICTURE BOOK
Crankenstein, by Samantha Berger, illus. by Dan Santat (Little, Brown)
The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt, illus. by Oliver Jeffers (Philomel)
Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey, by Emily Winfield Martin (Random House)
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, by Peter Brown (Little, Brown)
Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great, by Bob Shea (Disney-Hyperion)
Warning: Do Not Open This Book! by Adam Lehrhaupt, illus. by Matthew Forsythe (S&S/Wiseman)

PICTURE BOOK HALL OF FAME
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle (Henry Holt )
Eloise, by Kay Thompson, illus. by Hilary Knight (Simon & Schuster)
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff, illus. by Felicia Bond (HarperCollins)
Jumanji, by Chris Van Allsburg (HMH)
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
Millions of Cats, by Wanda Gág (Putnam)
Olivia, by Ian Falconer (S&S/Atheneum)
Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon (HMH)
Strega Nona, by Tomie dePaola (Simon & Schuster)
Swimmy, by Leo Lionni (Knopf )
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Stieg (Simon & Schuster)
Tikki Tikki Tembo, by Arlene Mosel, illus. by Blair Lent (Henry Holt)

INDIE CHAMPION AWARD
The Indie Champion Award, formerly called Most Engaging Author, is presented to the author or illustrator who booksellers feel has the best sense of the importance of independent bookstores to their communities at large and the strongest personal commitment to foster and support the mission and passion of independent booksellers.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
James Patterson
Richard Russo
Brandon Sanderson
David Sedaris
Jesmyn Ward