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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, November 21, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • Wreck
  • Best Wishes from the Full Moon Coffee Shop
  • Analog Days
  • Before the Mango Ripens
  • One, None, and a Hundred Grand

• Mystery & Thriller

  • The Botanist's Assistant
  • Haven't Killed in Years
  • The Bone Thief
  • The Burning Library

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • ★  The Everlasting
  • The Bookshop Below

• Romance

  • A Little Holiday Fling
  • Backslide

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary
  • Sorry I Keep Crying During Sex

• History

  • The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

• Business & Economics

  • ★  Raising Brows: My Story of Building a Billion-Dollar Beauty Empire

• Poetry

  • ★  Radicle, or When the World Lived Inside Us
  • Same: Poems
  • The Serious World

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Broken
  • ★  The Leaving Room
  • King of the Neuro Verse
  • The Clock

Great Reads

• Trans Literature, Then and Now
• Rediscover: Marina Lewycka

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Dedicated Shelf

• Founder Mark Siegel on First Second and 23rd St. Books
• 23rd St. Creative Director Kirk Benshoff: 'Clearing the Runway for Our Creators'

Rediscover

• Trans Literature, Then and Now
• Rediscover: Marina Lewycka

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Monday, November 24, 2025

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News

• Catapult Buys Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
• SIBA Hits Membership Milestone, Looks to 'Bright Future'
• Zibby's Bookshop's NYC Pop-Up Now Permanent
• U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze Opening Tenure with Focus on Poetry Translation
• Obituary Note: Richard Lamparski

Notes

• Image of the Day: Steve Israel Launches The Einstein Conspiracy
• Christmas Book Tree: Volume Bookshop & Studio
• Cool Idea: 'The Emma Straub Salad'
• Mary Beth Thomas Joining Hachette as Director, Field Sales

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Dav Pilkey on Today
• Amasia Entertainment Acquires Complete Idiot's Guide Franchise Rights

Books & Authors

• Awards: Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title Winner
• Top Library Recommended Titles for December

Book Review

• Starred Review: The Company of Owls

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Wednesday November 18, 2025: Maximum Shelf: When Trees Testify

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Maximum Review

• When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy

The Writer's Life

• Beronda L. Montgomery: A Plant-based Reckoning with the Past

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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.!