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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, October 30, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

The Writer's Life

• Josephine Riesman: Best Version/Worst Version

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Irene Hasenberg Butter

Maximum Shelf

• Life Out of Order
• Audrey Niffenegger: Creativity and Community Across Time

Book Review

• Fiction

  • Black Moon
  • Flyweight
  • The Spirits

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Death Down the Aisle

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Château Reverie
  • The Porcelain Sisters

• Romance

  • A Very Merry Detour

• Graphic Books

  • Wandering Cat's Cage

• Biography & Memoir

  • The Last Temptation of Beck: The Untold Story of a Pop Messiah
  • Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David

• Social Science

  • Advantage Player: A Memoir of Blackjack, Backrooms, and Beginnings

• Children's & Young Adult

  • The Little Stone Buddha
  • This Is How to Spot Animals!
  • Radio Free Texas
  • Chocolate Unwrapped: A Taste of the Science, History and Magic of Chocolate
  • Igloo

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, October 30, 2026

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Quotation of the Day

• 'I Want the Shop to Give Other People What Books Have Always Given Me: a Bit of Calm and Care in Chaos'

News

• SIBA Annual Meeting: 'In a Great Position for the Future'
• For Sale: WORD Bookstores, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Jersey City, N.J.
• Amazon's Third Quarter: AI Spending, Lackluster 'Core' Sales Spook Wall Street
• Two Doors Down Bookshop Opens Physical Storefront in Buda, Tex.
• Cooper's Prose Booksellers Coming to Starkville, Miss.
• International Update: Bookshops in Europe Affected by Protests; BA Reacts to Business Rates Changes

Notes

• Image of the Day: Lil Jon and Charlamagne Tha God at B&N Union Square
• Head Start on Halloween: Secret World Books
• Chalkboard: First Chapter Bookshop
• 'Cleansing Full Moon Ritual,' Bookseller Version

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Kazuo Ishiguro on Fresh Air
• TV: Pride & Prejudice

Books & Authors

• Awards: Cundill History Winner
• Reading with... Meghan Cox Gurdon

Book Review

• Starred Review: My Stalkers: Stories

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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