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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, March 6, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Brawler
  • ★  Gunk

• Mystery & Thriller

  • ★  I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
  • Crown City

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Fox Hunt

• Romance

  • And Now, Back to You

• Biography & Memoir

  • Traversal
  • Good Woman: A Reckoning

• Social Science

  • Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV
  • The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

• Poetry

  • Nighthawks

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Rare Bird
  • ★  The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan
  • ★  The Future Book
  • Midnight Mayhem
  • Estela, Undrowning

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Janie Chang

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Edward Hoagland

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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News

• Greg Greeley Named CEO of Simon & Schuster, Succeeding Jonathan Karp
• Michael Shoults New CEO of HBG US Distribution
• Tattooed Tree Books Opening This Spring in Fort Atkinson, Wis.
• des pair books, Los Angeles, Calif., Closing Storefront 
• Obituary Note: Betsey Detwiler

Notes

• Image of the Day: Tales of Two Ashlands
• Cool Idea: 48 Hour Read-a-Thon
• PGW Adds Four Publishers
• Personnel Changes at Running Press and Avalon Travel; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Book Trailer of the Day: Downfall

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Jamilah Lemieux on Fresh Air
• TV: Margo's Got Money Troubles

Books & Authors

• Awards: Gordon Burn Winner; Carol Shields Fiction Longlist

Book Review

• Starred Review: The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy

The Bestsellers

• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles

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Wednesday March 4, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

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Maximum Review

• Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

The Writer's Life

• Ben Reeves: Life and Death and Empathy

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February 19, 2026 Dedicated Issue: William Morrow's 100th Anniversary

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Editors' Note

• Congratulations, William Morrow!

Books & Authors

• A Century of Publishing Influential and Popular Works
• 'Carrying on the Tradition of Exceptional Publishing'
• Q&A: The Heads of Fiction and Nonfiction on William Morrow