General

Dancing on Broken Glass	Paige	The 13th Day of Christmas	A Night on Moon Hill	The Rent Collector
Ka Hancock*	Annette Lyon	Jason F. Wright	Tanya Parker Mills	Camron Wright

Historical

Espionage	My Loving Vigil Keeping	Spinster’s Folly	The Five Books of Jesus	Within the Dark Hills
A. L. Sowards*	Carla Kelly	Marsha Ward	James Goldberg*	Sian Ann Bessey

Romance

Lady Outlaw	Of Grace and Chocolate	Smart Move	Twitterpated	Edenbrooke
Stacy Henrie*	Krista Lynne Jensen*	Melanie Jacobson	Melanie Jacobson	Julianne Donaldson*

Mystery/Suspense

Banana Split	Code Word	Deadly Undertakings	Line of Fire	Tres Leches Cupcakes
Josi S. Kilpack	Traci Hunter Abramson	Gregg Luke	Rachel Ann Nunes	Josi S. Kilpack

Speculative

City of the Saints	Flight From Blithmore	Earthbound	The Hollow City	The Penitent
D. J. Butler	Jacob Gowans	Theresa Sneed	Dan Wells	C. David Belt

Young Adult—Speculative

Demons	Destined	Endlessly	Everneath	Feedback
Heather Frost	Aprilynne Pike	Kiersten White	Brodi Ashton*	Robison Wells

Young Adult—General

After Hello	Finding June	The Space Between Us	The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back	V is for Virgin
Lisa Mangum	Shannen Crane Camp	Jessica Martinez	Sariah Wilson	Kelly Oram

Middle Grade

Case File 13: Zombie Kid	Epic Tales of a Misfit Hero	Freakling	Palace of Stone	The False Prince
J. Scott Savage	Matt Peterson*	Lana Krumwiede*	Shannon Hale	Jennifer A. Nielsen

*Of these finalists, the following titles are also eligible for Best Novel by New Author 2012:

Dancing on Broken Glass by Ka Hancock *

The Five Books of Jesus by James Goldberg *

Lady Outlaw by Stacy Henrie *

Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson *

Everneath (Everneath, #1) by Brodi Ashton *

Espionage by A.L. Sowards *

Freakling by Lana Krumwiede *

The Epic Tales of a Misfit Hero by Matt Peterson *

Of Grace and Chocolate by Krista Lynne Jensen*

New this year: All finalists in the Adult categories (Mystery, Historical, General, Romance, Speculative) are eligible for Best Novel of the Year.

New this year: All finalists in the Youth categories (Middle Grade, YA General, YA Speculative) are eligible for Best Novel in Youth Fiction.

Academy Members have until April 29th, 2013, to read the finalists in whatever categories they want to vote in. To vote for Best Novel of the Year you must read all of the adult category finalists. To vote for Best Novel in Youth Fiction, you must read all of the youth category finalists.