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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, April 10, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Like This, but Funnier
  • ★  Inheritance
  • ★  The Last Letters of Sally and Walter
  • The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
  • American Fantasy
  • Tailbone

• Mystery & Thriller

  • The Survivor

• Romance

  • Dog Person

• Biography & Memoir

  • What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and a Murder Investigation

• Social Science

  • London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Fruitcake: A Graphic Novel
  • ★  Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an American Incarceration Camp
  • ★  Baseball's Shining Season: America's Pastime on the Brink of War
  • ★  Piper at the Gates of Dusk
  • How to Be Normal
  • Hmong: A Graphic History

The Writer's Life

• Scott Kurtz and Emily B. Martin: Fantastical Origins

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Alexander Kluge

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Monday, April 13, 2026

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News

• Skylight Books Opening Second Store in Los Angeles
• Prologue Bookshop, Columbus, Ohio, Opens in New Space with Book Brigade's Help
• Forbidden Fiction Bookshop Comes to Oceanside, Calif.
• Sweet Reads Society Opens in Newton Falls, Ohio
• At Harper360, Jean Marie Kelly Retiring, Emily Gerbner Promoted

Notes

• Image of the Day: Bookmarks Hosts Kate Bowler
• 'Secret' Sales Floor Display: Carmichael's Bookstore
• Personnel Changes at the future of agency
• Book Trailer of the Day: These Fragments I Have Shored

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Namwali Serpell on Fresh Air
• Movies: Infernal Affairs

Books & Authors

• Awards: Hayek Winner

Book Review

• Starred Review: Whistler

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Thursday April 2, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Plant Lady

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Maximum Review

• Plant Lady

The Writer's Life

• Minyoung Kang: Green and Red, Plants and Blood

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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