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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, January 2, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  The Dream of the Jaguar
  • The Pelican Child

• Mystery & Thriller

  • A Grave Deception

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • ★  Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore

• Graphic Books

  • The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt

• Biography & Memoir

  • Joan Crawford: A Woman's Face

• History

  • ★  The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of King James VI and I
  • The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
  • Fire: Voices of a Generation in Iran, Ukraine, and Afghanistan

• Social Science

  • The Butterfly Thief: Adventure, Fraud, Scotland Yard, and Australia's Greatest Museum Heist

• Travel Literature

  • My Little Donkey: And Other Essays

• Poetry

  • Dog Show: Poems

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  How Girls Are Made
  • Break Wide the Sea
  • Vida: The Mice, the Cat, and the Alebrije
  • Burst Your Bubble!: Outsmart the Algorithms and See What You're Missing

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Christina Kovac

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Maximum Shelf

• An Arcane Inheritance
• Kamilah Cole: An Immigrant in Dark Academia

Rediscover

• Rediscover: DéLana R.A. Dameron

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Tuesday, January 6, 2026

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News

• Holiday Hum: 'The Year of the Supply-Side Issues'
• For Sale: Pages & Parchment Book Store in Skippack, Pa.
• Ed Spade Named Senior V-P, Commercial Operations, at Hachette
• Andrew Richard Albanese Named Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives
• Obituary Note: Brian Doyle

Notes

• Image of the Day: John Waters at East End Books
• Inventory Season: Janke Book Store
• 'Our Social Media Manager Is on Vacation. Buy Books'
• Book Trailer of the Day: Sloomoo: Making Friends

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Laura Dave on Good Morning America
• TV: Bookish

Book Review

• Review: Hell's Heart

The Bestsellers

• Top Book Club Picks in December

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Wednesday December 3, 2025: Maximum Shelf: Celestial Lights

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Maximum Review

• Celestial Lights

The Writer's Life

• Cecile Pin: The High Cost of Ambition

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November 20, 2025 Dedicated Issue: 23rd St. Celebrates Its First Year

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Books & Authors

• From :01 to 23: Founder Mark Siegel on First Second and 23rd St. Books
• Creative Director Kirk Benshoff: 'Clearing the Runway for Our Creators'
• Calista Brill Highlights Books from 23rd St.'s First Year
• 2026 Books: Four New Titles for the New Year
• Editors' Note: Happy Birthday and Many More, 23rd St.!