Book Sense Best Books: 125 Favorite Books Recommended By Independent Booksellers

by Mark Nichols (Editor)

Celebrating five years of the successful Book Sense program, the first compilation of "must-read" adult and children's titles selected and annotated by trusted and experienced booksellers. Book Sense, the successful national brand representing more than 1,200 independent booksellers throughout the USA, celebrates its fifth birthday in 2004. The Book Sense namewhich embodies the passion, personality, knowledge, community, and character of its membersis the reason independent booksellers are once again being recognized for the vital role they play in connecting great books with passionate readers. As part of its birthday celebration, Book Sense (a subsidiary of the American Booksellers Association) circulated a ballot with 371 titlesall of the top-10-ranked books on the Book Sense Best Books lists over the last five years. Over 1,000 members voted for the books they most enjoyed hand-selling, resulting in a "Best of the First Five Years" list of 15 adult and 10 children's titles. As a quick and easy reference for booklovers, this first volume of Book Sense Best Books features these titles and more than 100 others, organized as follows:

Genres: Books About Books, Nonfiction, Reference

94 pages, Paperback

First published September 16, 2004

Reviews

[Patricia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very comprehensive list of "new classics". I got this book from the library but I think it would be one I would reference quite often if I owned it. Of course I have Goodreads to keep track of the "new classics" too, but it's kind of nice having a list handy on my coffee table.

[Catherine Mustread · Rating 3 out of 5]

125 titles, mostly published between 1999-2004, including fiction, non-fiction, children's and teen, listed by categories. For my purposes (checking to see what good books I might not yet have on my list) would have been better to go straight to the back of the book where they are all in one list. Probably had read about half, and added about half of the remaining to my TBR or TBRAfter list.

[Nancy Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love book lists so I loved this book. I also got it from the library, but will purchase it for future reference. I had read many of the books listed but discovered many new ones for my always expanding list.