As part of its birthday celebration, Book Sense (a subsidiary of the American Booksellers Association) circulated a ballot with 371 titles--all of the top-10-ranked books on the Book Sense Best Books lists over the last five years. Over 1,000 members voted for the books they most enjoyed hand-selling, resulting in a "Best of the First Five Years" list of 15 adult and 10 children's titles. As a quick and easy reference for booklovers, this first volume of Book Sense Best Books features these titles and more than 100 others, organized as follows: - The Top Picks: 15 adult and 10 children's titles, annotated by individual booksellers- Top Reading Group Recommendations: 50 more adult titles, organized by category- Top Classics for Children and Young Adults: 50 more titles, organized by age and reading level- Appendix listing of 371 Top Ten Book Sense picks from past five years- Index by title and author