Book Sense Announces 2004 Picks Highlights

From About Grace to Waiting for Teddy Williams, 2004 was an auspicious year for great writing. Beginning in January and February, booksellers were selecting such titles as Something Rising (Light and Swift) and Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, and continuing into the fall -- a season that saw an abundance of wonderful titles, such as The Love Wife, The Green Age of Asher Witherow, and Outside Valentine -- independents nationwide were highlighting outstanding titles as Book Sense Picks.

As a special year-end marketing tool, Book Sense has compiled a "2004 Book Sense Picks Highlights" list, which will be arriving at independent stores in the Book Sense program around Thanksgiving. The list of 70 titles showcases the wide range of Book Sense Picks in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from 2004, and offers booksellers a great opportunity to build effective holiday displays.

To see the full list, click here.

As always, the Book Sense team would love to see photos of store displays, which can become part of the presentations we make to publishers about the program. Photos may be in print or digital format. Digital photos, approximately 3" x 5" and 300 dpi, saved as JPEG or TIFF files, can be e-mailed to Christine Babcock at [email protected]. Multiple pictures may be sent as a stuffed file (.sit). PDF or ZIP files should not be sent, but photos saved on a ZIP disk are acceptable.

Looking ahead, the deadline for the February Book Sense Picks list is December 3. Please e-mail your nominations to Book Sense Picks Editor-in-Chief Dan Cullen at [email protected], or you can use the Web nomination form at http://www.bookweb.org/read/6305.

And many thanks for all you are doing for Book Sense!