Specialty Bookselling

Based on four weeks of sales ended September 14, 2003, at hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S. Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677. Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

Here are the independent booksellers' picks for the top ten Halloween titles for the fall. This list of children's and adult titles was developed by Book Sense in collaboration with the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading initiative. Look for more such lists in the upcoming months, and many thanks to all the independent booksellers who contributed a wealth of enthusiastic nominations for this list. Pads of the list are included in the September White Box mailing.

This is the second of four articles looking at the results of the recently released 2002 Consumer Research Study on Book Purchasing, conducted by Ipsos BookTrends and published by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). This week's focus is the children's book market (13 years old and under).

Esme Raji Codell, and yes, she was named for Salinger's Esme -- came to national attention with her first book, Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year (Algonquin). The insightful, funny, unbelievably energetic Codell began her first year of teaching in an underachieving, charmless public school in a very poor section of Chicago. She chronicled the experience and gave readers a glimpse of what a gifted teacher can do even in the humblest environments.

Based on four weeks of sales ended August 31, 2003, at hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S. Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677. Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

Nominations Sought for a Very Special Top Ten 76

Here are the top ten titles as tallied from hundreds of nominations from independent booksellers around the country for the Autumn 2003 Children's Book Sense 76. The full Children's Book Sense 76 -- with booksellers' quotes -- will be in next week's Bookselling This Week.

Based on four weeks of sales ended August 17, 2003. This week's Book Sense Category Bestseller List shows that books still rule in the information age. Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677. Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

Based on four weeks of sales from over 400 independent bookstores across America. Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677. Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine. Trade Paperback | Mass Market | Hardcover

The Book Sense Animal Bestseller List for the four weeks ended August 3, 2003. Based on sales reports from well over 400 Book Sense stores nationwide. Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677. Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.