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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, September 18, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • Dear Future Occupants
  • The Pirate Queen
  • The Witches of Cambridge

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Pictures of You

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Blacktail

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir on Writing
  • Idle in Provence: A Brief History of Thyme

• Social Science

  • ★  Plastic Shaman: The True Story of a Deadly Self-Help Retreat and America's Misguided Quest for Wellness

• Essays & Criticism

  • Story Telling: A Writing Life

• Nature & Environment

  • The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me About Nature's Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life

• Humor

  • ★  Receipts from the Bookshop: A Bookseller's Year in an English Seaside Town

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Who Knows the Way to Mr. Grimly's Classroom?
  • ★  Absent
  • ★  Adam, Mine.
  • The Wild Season
  • Tell the Ghosts I'm Gone

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Seven Rasmussen

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Maximum Shelf

• Ten Perfect Guests
• Jonathan Santlofer: The Art of Unlikable Characters

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Gloria Steinem

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, September 18, 2026

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Quotation of the Day

• 'Keeping Bookshops Open Makes Books Accessible and Keeps Reading Relevant'

News

• NEIBA Fall Conference: It's a Wrap
• NEIBA Fall Conference: 'Every Event Is a Special Event'
• Phil Klay Named President of PEN America 
• Letterpress Play & Books, Austin, Tex., Sets October Debut in New Space
• Obituary Note: Deirdre McDermott

Notes

• Image of the Day: Challenging Sheinkin
• Happy Fifth Birthday, Betty's Books!
• Cool Idea: 'Book Tastings'
• Bookseller Cat: Teddy at the Author Shoppe
• Bookshop Moment: The Green Dragon Bookshop

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Serena Wolf on Good Morning America
• Movies: The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Books & Authors

• National Book Award Longlist: Fiction
• Awards: Sunburst Winners
• Reading with... Kasey Lansdale

Book Review

• Starred Review: Fieldwork as a Sex Object

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Wednesday September 16, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Here We Are at the End

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Maximum Review

• Here We Are at the End

The Writer's Life

• Sara Barnard: Imagine if It All Just Went Away

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Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, September 8, 2026

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Editors' Note

• Celebrating Skyhorse Publishing's 20th Birthday

Books & Authors

• Skyhorse's Two Decades of Scrappy, Steady Growth
• Skyhorse and Politics
• A Big Big Book for Skyhorse: A Table for Fortune
• The Many Faces of Skyhorse
• Upcoming Skyhorse Titles