Edited by Hans Weyandt
August 21, 2012 • 4.4 x 6.4 • 200 pages • 978-1-56689-313-8
Twenty-five indie booksellers share the joy and wonder of books with must-read lists that put a bookseller in your pocket.
An ode to the art of traditional bookselling and independent bookstores, 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 check-list style contribution includes a bookseller’s top fifty books, anecdotes, and interviews about the life of being a bookseller, reader, and engaged citizen. Introduced by Ann Patchett, the book exhibits the range and diversity of these booksellers’ tastes and the stores in which they work. But it goes beyond a typical book of lists to show how independent bookstores are havens for readers where individual tastes, location, and personality matter and where the staff provide an expertise and wisdom about readers and books often lost in large and online retail spaces. One hundred percent of royalties will go to the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE).
About the Author
Hans Weyandt is the manager of Milkweed Books, an indepedent bookstore owned by Milkweed Editions, in the Open Book building at 1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota.