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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, May 29, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You
  • Offseason

• Mystery & Thriller

  • The Author Weekend

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Turn (W)here: A Geography of Home
  • Mother Tongue: A Memoir
  • True Crime

• History

  • The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World

• Business & Economics

  • Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better

• Essays & Criticism

  • Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children

• Poetry

  • ★  Wellwater: Poems

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Claude
  • The Edge of Forever
  • ★  The Saw Mouth
  • The Second Life of Snap
  • Queerleaders

The Writer's Life

• Julián Delgado Lopera: A Childhood Reimagined

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Philip Caputo

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Wednesday, June 3, 2026

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News

• Forbidden Love Bookstore Comes to Bemidji, Minn.
• Grand Opening Set for the Brady Readery, Laytonsville, Md.
• Rabbit Books and Bar Arriving This Summer in New York City
• Finch & Fern Book Co. in Sylvania, Ohio, to Close Physical Storefront
• International Update: Wiley Buys Emerald Publishing; Aotearoa NZ Book Industry Awards Finalists

Notes

• Image of the Day: Eagle Eye Book Shop Hosts Kennedy Ryan
• Reese's June Book Club Pick: A Pair of Aces
• Bookstore Dog: Archie at Second Flight Books
• Bookshop Moment: Between the Covers

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Jill Biden on the Kelly Clarkson Show
• Movies: Fatherland

Books & Authors

• Awards: Carol Shields Fiction Winner
• Reading with... Robin Michel Caudell

Book Review

• Starred YA Review: Salvage

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Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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Maximum Review

• Rottenheart

The Writer's Life

• Kat Dunn: Madness, Shakespeare, and Stepmothers

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May 6, 2026 Dedicated Issue: Introducing Berkley XO

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Editors' Note

• Celebrating the Launch of Berkley XO

News

• Q&A with Christine Ball and Jen Klonsky
• Reap & Sow by Charlotte B. Plumb
• Crash Course by Piper Lawson
• Drown the Bones by Alexandra Kennington