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Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores (2012. Auflage)

von Hans Weyandt

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"There is no greater joy for a bookseller than introducing a reader to a book they will love for the rest of their lives. Those of us in this business are, after all, matchmakers at heart. So consider this little book you now hold in your hands a sort of catalog of matchmakers."--Ann Patchett "If I were still a bookseller, I'd be thrilled to share this wealth with my customers. As a reader, I'm deeply intrigued by the range of selections. . . . Do yourself a favor. Add Micawber's Top 50 project to your must-read list."--Robert Gray, Shelf Awareness This book offers lists of favorites that have flown under the radar, but off of bookstore shelves. First published on Hans Weyandt's blog for Micawber's Books, each list includes a bookseller's top fifty books, anecdotes, and interviews about the life of being a bookseller, reader, and engaged citizen. All proceeds will go to American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE). Contributing bookstores include Book Passage, Tattered Cover Book Store, Three Lives & Company, Boswell Books, City Lights Bookstore, BookCourt, Harvard Book Store, Carmichael's Bookstore, Prairie Lights, The King's English Bookshop, Square Books, Magers & Quinn, Micawber's Books, Unabridged Bookstore, Regulator Bookshop, Subterranean Books, Faulkner House Books, Skylight Books, Maria's Bookshop, Inkwood Books, Rakestraw Books, RiverRun Bookstore, Sherman's Books and Stationary, Iowa Book, and Fireside Books. Hans Weyandt is a co-owner at Micawber's Books, an independent bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ann Patchett is the best-selling author of five novels, includingRun,Bel Canto, and most recently,State of Wonder. She owns Parnassus Bookstore in Nashville, Tennnessee.… (mehr)

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Titel:	Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores
Autoren:	Hans Weyandt
Info:	Coffee House Press (2012), Paperback, 200 pages
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A great book that lists the favorite books of the owners, managers, and buyers from 25 different independent bookstores from around the country. This book and similar books will fatten one's TBR in a hurry. (

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Jimbookbuff1963 | Jun 5, 2021 |

I love picking up this book and browsing through it. What better way to find new gems than from dedicated bibliophiles? I've visited a number of the bookstores in this book--Tattered Cover, City Lights, and Faulkner House Books--and some of the best reads of my life have been recommendations from independent bookstore people. I think anyone who loves to read would find this book enjoyable. (

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ucla70 | Apr 4, 2016 |

I enjoy "Books About Books." In this one, independent bookstore owners and employees were asked to recommend books that they particularly liked and/or frequently recommended to their customers and friends. For each store, several of the recommendations are discussed, and there is a list of other books recommended. I found there were many, many authors and books I hadn't heard of. I made an extensive list of books to explore, since in most cases there was little or no information about the book, as only a fraction of the books recommended were described. This led to my discovering on exploration that some were of little or no interest to me, i.e. children's books, technical books, etc., but there was enough there to make this a fun book to peruse. You can also find good indie bookstores for many cities and towns across the US. (

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arubabookwoman | Sep 26, 2013 |

Picked this up while on vacation in Maine and spending time in Sherman's Books and Stationary (which is a classic indie bookstore -- I visited the Freeport store). The man behind the counter helped me find books I wanted, chatted with me about current reading, and then, when I grabbed this on impulse, said he'd contributed to it (so I got him to autograph it because, hey! why not?)

This one is more like the Nancy Pearl books rather than those "You Must Read This" lists -- these are books people who sell books liked best, and that means something. (

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Murphy-Jacobs | Mar 30, 2013 |

This book came to me at a very valuable time, a time when I'm exhausted by trying to read the murky crystal ball that is the future of publishing and bookselling while awaiting what could be a huge game changing election depending on how the votes go. I've gotten lost in the fear of it all. But this book, this tiny little book, has reminded me of just how lucky I am, because my job is to read, talk about and sell books. This book reminded me that this is my CAREER--it's not just a job. And it's not just a career, it's a calling that is the truest, best, most wonderful thing I've ever done and gotten paid for. As Ann Patchett says in her introduction to the book:

"There is no greater joy for a bookseller than introducing a reader to a book they will love for the rest of their lives. Those of us in this business are, after all, matchmakers at heart.

So consider this little book...a sort of catalogue of matchmakers."

These are lists, fifty titles long, from independent booksellers all over the country, of their very favorite books to share with others. Each list is prefaced with a bit about the stores they are from and their ideas about books and bookish things. There is room built into the book for your own list, and space to make notes as you read the lists. A extra special thing about this book is that all the proceeds go to the American Booksellers Foundations for Free Expression (ABFFE), a group that fights literary censorship and supports struggling bookstores.

For me, it reads like a bucket list of book stores I MUST see before I die. I've got one down--Tattered Cover's got a list in there too. This is a great book for any bibliophile anywhere. (

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"There is no greater joy for a bookseller than introducing a reader to a book they will love for the rest of their lives. Those of us in this business are, after all, matchmakers at heart. So consider this little book you now hold in your hands a sort of catalog of matchmakers."--Ann Patchett "If I were still a bookseller, I'd be thrilled to share this wealth with my customers. As a reader, I'm deeply intrigued by the range of selections. . . . Do yourself a favor. Add Micawber's Top 50 project to your must-read list."--Robert Gray, Shelf Awareness This book offers lists of favorites that have flown under the radar, but off of bookstore shelves. First published on Hans Weyandt's blog for Micawber's Books, each list includes a bookseller's top fifty books, anecdotes, and interviews about the life of being a bookseller, reader, and engaged citizen. All proceeds will go to American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE). Contributing bookstores include Book Passage, Tattered Cover Book Store, Three Lives & Company, Boswell Books, City Lights Bookstore, BookCourt, Harvard Book Store, Carmichael's Bookstore, Prairie Lights, The King's English Bookshop, Square Books, Magers & Quinn, Micawber's Books, Unabridged Bookstore, Regulator Bookshop, Subterranean Books, Faulkner House Books, Skylight Books, Maria's Bookshop, Inkwood Books, Rakestraw Books, RiverRun Bookstore, Sherman's Books and Stationary, Iowa Book, and Fireside Books. Hans Weyandt is a co-owner at Micawber's Books, an independent bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ann Patchett is the best-selling author of five novels, includingRun,Bel Canto, and most recently,State of Wonder. She owns Parnassus Bookstore in Nashville, Tennnessee.

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