Shelf Awareness Current Issues

Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, August 21, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Afsheen Farhadi

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Keigo Higashino

Book Review

• Fiction

  • The Song of Stork and Dromedary
  • Sea of Charms
  • Queen Mab
  • Runner

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Freyja

• Romance

  • The Roman Holiday Rule

• Graphic Books

  • The Nightingales

• Biography & Memoir

  • Unsayable: A Life in Writing

• History

  • Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Created Europe
  • Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir

• Nature & Environment

  • I Have This Thing for Flowers: Essays on the Roots of Relationships

• Children's & Young Adult

  • The Hungry Forest
  • Still Water: The Wonders of Ponds, Pools, Wetlands, and More
  • All the Queens' Curses
  • Outline
  • Just Another Summer

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Monday, August 24, 2026

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Quotation of the Day

• 'I've Been Thinking About All the People Who Walked Through Our Doors Today'

News

• Vellum & Vine Romance Bookshop Debuts in Albuquerque, N.Mex.
• Scout's Tales Opens in Arlington Heights, Ill.
• Hardback Books Coming to Kansas City, Mo.
• Obituary Note: Ted Smart

Notes

• Image of the Day: 2026 National Book Festival
• Bookseller Fashion Week Video: Cedar Canoe Books 
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
• Book Trailer of the Day: The Five of Us

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Esther Perel on Today
• TV: Bad Monkey Season 2

Books & Authors

• Awards: Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Shortlist
• Top Library Recommended Titles for September

Book Review

• Starred Review: Sweet Pea

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Monday August 17, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Fortune and Glass

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Maximum Review

• Fortune and Glass

The Writer's Life

• John Mutter: Beyond History Books

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July 2, 2026 Dedicated Issue: Celebrating VIZ Media's 40th Anniversary

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Editors' Note

• Celebrating VIZ Media's 40th Anniversary

Books & Authors

• VIZ Media: The Gateway to the West for Japanese Storytelling
• The VIZ Media Timeline: 40 Years of Shaping Global Pop Culture
• Upcoming VIZ Media Titles