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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, October 23, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • Butter Road
  • Luna, Phoenix, Queen
  • Victorious
  • What Happens at Nightfall

• Romance

  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder

• Food & Wine

  • Wine: A Global History

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Desire Lines: A Memoir
  • ★  On Another Planet They Can Save Me
  • This Is What Happens When Women Read

• History

  • ★  A History of the World in Twelve Beans

• Travel Literature

  • How to Travel Incognito

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Children of Owl
  • ★  Second Generation Blues
  • ★  Like Glass
  • The Ones Who Came Before
  • The Moonlit Spiral

The Writer's Life

• Kristen Millares Young: A Willingness to Be Astonished

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Maximum Shelf

• When They Find Me
• Carter Wilson: Small Casts and Huge Consequences

Rediscover

• Rediscover: The Impossible Will Take a Little While

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Tuesday, October 27, 2026

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News

• Rainy Day Books Opens Downtown Kansas City, Mo., Location
• Special Sauce Coming to Charlotte, N.C., Next Month
• Riverstone Books, Pittsburgh, Pa., Adds Cafe to New Location
• White Rabbit Book Cafe in Oregon City, Ore., to Close
• Obituary Note: Cheikh Hamidou Kane 

Notes

• Image of the Day: Transit Books' Arborial Evening
• Seasonal Haunting: Village Books
• Bookseller Moment: Nook + Press 
• Book Trailer of the Day: This Is a Door

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Sophia Bush on Today

Books & Authors

• Awards: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Comic Fiction Shortlist

Book Review

• Review: I Swore I'd Burn This Book

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Tuesday October 27, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Good Girls and Alpha Males

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Maximum Review

• Good Girls and Alpha Males: How Conservative Media Is Targeting Gen Z

The Writer's Life

• Madeline Peltz: Connecting the Personal with the Political

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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