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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, October 2, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Fallow
  • Avalon, Rise
  • Dodge City
  • Ply
  • The Queen of Bad Influences

• Mystery & Thriller

  • A Game of Cat and Killer
  • Trad Wife

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Strange Bedfellows

• Biography & Memoir

  • Babe: Elaboratio: A Tribute to My Mother

• History

  • ★  An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America

• Travel Literature

  • ★  True North: On the Road in Canada

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Death in the Tallgrass
  • ★  The Grimlore Game
  • ★  To Our Untamed Core
  • Bravepaw and the Clawstone of Rotwood Mire
  • Building 903

The Writer's Life

• Keri Leigh Merritt: A Near Erasure from History

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Robin Morgan

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Tuesday, October 6, 2026

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Quotation of the Day

• Indie Bookstores: 'Textured and Handmade'

News

• MPIBA's FallCon Kicks Off in Denver
• Sarah Rhu of Scuppernong Books Wins Shelf Awareness Winter Institute Scholarship
• The Island Bookstore, Mackinac Island, Mich., Combining Locations
• American Library Association Releases 150 Most Challenged Books List
• Obituary Note: Jeffrey Archer

Notes

• Image of the Day: Something Followed Us Home at Exile in Bookville
• Little Free Library Calls Upon Readers to Share Banned Books 
• Chalkboard: Novel Bay Booksellers
• Personnel Changes at the future of agency
• Book Trailer of the Day: Little Bee and the Bloom

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Malcolm Gladwell on Jimmy Kimmel Live
• Movies: Clarissa

Books & Authors

• Awards: PNBA BuzzBooks Winner; Baillie Gifford Shortlist

Book Review

• Starred Review: Fetal Position

The Bestsellers

• Top Book Club Picks in September

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Tuesday September 22, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Goliath

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Maximum Review

• Goliath

The Writer's Life

• Ronald Lee Robertson: Race and the Mixed Blessing of Inheritance

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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