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NAIBA Notables
The books that independent booksellers love to sell
NAIBA Notables selects one book a month, a book that has a large fan base of booksellers in the region, and brings it to the attention of all our booksellers. The book is not necessarily a "regional" title, but an outstanding piece of work that booksellers want to sell. You can trust that the books selected as NAIBA Notables will be loved by you, your staff, and customers.
Independent bookstores in this region outnumber any other single retailer, and our collective efforts to support fine pieces of writing will be recognized. By focusing our attention on one particular title a month, publishers will note the importance of independent bookstore for those great books that need our attention.
We ask that you will make room in your store for a display of the NAIBA Notables (singly and collectively) and promote them in your online and print communications. Each book will come with its own features, some with author appearances, autographed stock, special coop promotions, etc. Use everything you can to make this title stand out to your customers.
We do not expect you to use the moniker "NAIBA Notables." Use the information provided in the Notables program to market the titles as staff picks or featured titles. If you haven't read and fallen in love with a title in the Notables program, you can confidently handsell with the endorsement of your fellow booksellers. Each book comes with a bookseller review that you can use; click "More Info" below for these and other downloadable materials.
As NAIBA makes every attempt to highlight the efforts of independent booksellers in a marketplace where books are sold everywhere, a little support each month by you on a very worthy title will remind publishers and consumers where the best books are sold.
NAIBA Notables
Stock it.
Read it.
Merchandise it.
Blurb it.
Nominate it.
If you would like to suggest a book as a NAIBA Notable, email your suggestion to us - include your review of the book. To make an impact, be sure to nominate our Notables to the Indie Next list.
March 2010
The Heights
Peter Hedges
Dutton; 9780525951131
March 4, 2010
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November 2009
Invisible
by 2009 Legacy Award Winner Paul Auster
Holt; 978-0805090802
October 27, 2009
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NAIBA chose Paul Auster to receive the 2009 NAIBA Legacy award, and the award was presented at the NAIBA Fall Conference's Awards Banquet on October 4, 2009 in Baltimore.
Here's an excerpt from his acceptance speech:
There is no feeling like that of entering a good bookstore - which
is to say, a store guided by a rigorous literary intelligence,
someone with taste, acumen, and a position about what is necessary,
fundamental, and new - not new in the sense of fads and weightless
ephemera, but new in the sense of what, in the judgment of that
literary intelligence, will in time become necessary and fundamental.
A bookstore is not a library. It cannot contain all books, but
only some books, and if, within that some, nearly all are of interest,
then you will trust the mind that put them there and think of
that store as a second home. Read
the entire speech.
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October 2009
Chronic City
Jonathan Lethem
Doubleday; 978-0385518635
October 13, 2009
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September 2009
The Promised World
Lisa Tucker
Atria; 978-1416575382
September 1, 2009
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A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore
Knopf; 978-0375409288
September 8, 2009
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August 2009
This is Where I Leave You
Jonathan Tropper
Dutton; 9780525951278
August 6, 2009
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July 2009
A Happy Marriage
by Rafael Yglesias
Scribner; 9781439102305
July 7, 2009
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Something's Missing
by Matthew Dicks
Broadway Books (Paperback)
978-0767930888
July 14, 2009
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June 2009
Border Songs
by Jim Lynch
Knopf; 78-0-307-27117-4
June 16, 2009
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May 2009
Wanting
A Novel by Richard Flanagan
Grove Atlantic; 978-0-8021-1900-1
May 12, 2009
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