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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, December 26, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  The Ferryman and His Wife
  • ★  The Silver Book
  • Three Stories of Forgetting
  • Ravishing
  • Television
  • Find Him!
  • The Library of Fates
  • The Week of Colors

• Mystery & Thriller

  • ★  Cape Fever
  • Innocence Road

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • This Gilded Abyss
  • Exo

• Romance

  • And Then There Was You

• Graphic Books

  • Pigeons! A Fable for Our Times
  • Comfortless

• Biography & Memoir

  • When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy

• Social Science

  • Voices from the Kitchen: Personal Narratives from New York's Immigrant Restaurant Workers
  • Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

• Psychology & Self-Help

  • Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books

• Poetry

  • ★  Common Disaster

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Coziest Place on the Moon
  • ★  Mega: The Most Enormous Animals Ever
  • ★  The House Saphir
  • The Firefly Crown
  • Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Hannah Beer

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Sophie Kinsella

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Tuesday, December 23, 2025

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Editors' Note

• Happy Holidays!

Quotation of the Day

• 'May this Season Show You All The Ways You Are Valued by Your Communities'

News

• Wonderful Words Bookshoppe Debuts in Bryan, Tex.
• Mystery Solved on the Move in Utah
• New Owners at Old Professor's Bookshop, Belfast, Maine
• International Update: 'Indies Aren't Just for Christmas'; '10 Specific Bookselling Joys'

Notes

• Happy 50th Birthday, Atticus Bookstore Cafe!
• Staff Pics: 'This Team Is Nothing Short of a Christmas Miracle'
• Microcosm Adds Three Distribution Clients
• Free Gift Wrapping: 'All Hands (and Paws) on Deck!'

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Dick Van Dyke on Good Morning America
• This Weekend on Book TV: Mahmood Mamdani

Books & Authors

• Awards: FutureBook 2025 Winners 
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites

Book Review

• Review: Haven

The Bestsellers

• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles

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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.!