Browse the Backlist Book Swap Title List Now on BookWeb

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Last month, hundreds of booksellers, publishers, and guests brought copies of their favorite backlist books to share with friends and colleagues at the inaugural Backlist Book Swap at Winter Institute 11 in Denver.

A complete list of the 344 titles shared at the Backlist Book Swap is now available on BookWeb in PDF and Excel formats.


Booksellers shared their favorite backlist picks in the Book Swap photo booth

The list features the author, ISBN, publisher and imprint, format, and original pub date for each title. Titles are also tagged by category, including biography, cooking, essays, fiction, and science fiction, as well as middle grade, young adult, and picture book.

Participants in the Book Swap were asked to bring a new or used copy of a favorite “under-read” book that was at least five years old and still in print to share at the event, which took place in the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel following the Winter Institute’s Opening Reception at Tattered Cover Book Store.

Swap participants donned an “Ask me what I’m swapping” pin and showed off their books in the Book Swap photo booth. At the end of the night, they left the party with someone else’s favorite under-read title and a photo taken at the event. (All photos from the Book Swap photo booth can now be viewed on ABA’s Facebook page.)

Bookseller Justin Colussy-Estes of Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Georgia, brought the young adult book Red Spikes (Knopf Books for Young Readers). “Margo Lanagan is just about as good as it gets — amazing, fantastic short stories for YA (and anybody who loves beautiful writing),” he said.

Beth Albrecht, owner of The Magic Tree Bookstore in Oak Park, Illinois, shared Tinkers by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press), which she called “an exquisite book about being human.”


Favorite backlist picks were displayed for browsing at the Book Swap

Two authors from the Indie Next List’s new Revisit & Rediscover feature highlighting backlist titles also mixed and mingled with booksellers: Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway (Back Bay Books), and Katherine Hannigan, author of Ida B…and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World (Greenwillow).

Throughout the night, booksellers celebrated the strong and successful titles that provide consistent sales for indie bookstores and talked about their favorites from over the years. See the full list of titles shared at the Backlist Book Swap in PDF and Excel formats on BookWeb.

Based on the popularity of the celebration of backlist books at Winter Institute, the 2016 ABC Children’s Institute will feature a Book Swap event in conjunction with the Opening Reception on Tuesday, June 21, at 6:30 p.m. at the Wyndham Orlando Resort International in Orlando, Florida.

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