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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, October 9, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Fair Ones: A Double Novel
  • Night of a Thousand Hells
  • Partita
  • The Radiance

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Murder on 34th Street
  • The Sisters of Crimson House

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Court of Venus

• Graphic Books

  • ★  Requiem for Gaza

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Salty, Not Sweet: A Life in the Food World

• Social Science

  • The Agatha Christie Cure: What Reading the Queen of Crime Taught Me About Life

• Essays & Criticism

  • There's a Monster in the Lake: The World as a Fantastical Place

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Voice of the Snow!
  • ★  Stealing Saint Nick: A Legendary Corpse, a Notorious Theft, and the Stories That Shape the World
  • The Secret to Belonging
  • Styx: The River
  • Young Cat, Old Cat

The Writer's Life

• Aaron Blabey and Game of Pets: An Unexpected Collision of Ideas

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Maximum Shelf

• The Memory of Borrowed Books
• Meg Anderson: Books Feel Like Home

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Peter May

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Thursday, October 15, 2026

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News

• The Reading Tree Bookshop Coming to Charlotte, N.C.
• The Perfect Page on the Road in Conn.
• Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: From Apathy to Action
• Obituary Note: Mandasue Heller 
• For Gift and Sidelines Buyers: Shelf Awareness Offers Trip to Total Home & Gift Market

Notes

• Image of the Day: Denise Derya Brandt at Roebling Books & Coffee
• This Week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers
• Bookseller Moment: Garden Wall Bookshop
• 'Don't Ghost Your Friend's Small Business!'

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Ryan Bartlow on Good Morning America
• This Weekend on Book TV: The Baltimore and Jackson Hole Book Festivals

Books & Authors

• Awards: Nancy Flight Writers' Trust Nonfiction Editing Finalists
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites

Book Review

• Starred Review: Instant Classic: A Love Story

Deeper Understanding

• Robert Gray: Bookshop Day 2026--'We Are Cultural Powerhouses'

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Thursday October 15, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Human Again

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Maximum Review

• Human Again: The Lost Art of Being Alive

The Writer's Life

• Dr. Chris Cleave: Regaining Our Humanity

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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