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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, September 25, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

The Writer's Life

• Elizabeth Acevedo: Community over Isolation

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Annie Dillard

Book Review

• Fiction

  • Exit Party
  • Something of a Calling
  • What's a Snow Leopard to You?

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Mazywood
  • Our Cut of Salt
  • Sanctuary

• Romance

  • If Not You
  • A Study in Sparkling

• Science

  • On the Equality of All Things: Lessons on Physics and Philosophy

• Poetry

  • Small Talk

• Children's & Young Adult

  • Hometown
  • Anger Is Only a Shadow
  • Mind vs. Machine: The Chess Match That Changed the World
  • The Continuation of Summer Dillon
  • The Little House That Needed a Witch
  • The Weather Keeper

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Wednesday, September 30, 2026

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Editors' Note

• Shelf Awareness Call for Information: Multilingual

News

• PNBA Fall Tradeshow Wraps Up with a Day of Education
• Executive Changes at Hachette Book Group 
• Andrea Fleck-Nisbet Named President, Quarto Group U.S.
• Broom Book & Candle Opening This Fall in Denver, Colo.
• Scholastic to Acquire Cottage Door Press
• Molly Guptill Manning & John Mutter on Telling the Stories of Unsung Heroes

Notes

• Image of the Day: The Liberation of Jane Carter
• Reese's October Book Club Pick: Sophie, Standing There
• Sales Floor Display: 'National Day for Truth & Reconciliation' 
• Threshing Day Midnight Release Party at Deadtime Stories
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Madeline Miller on Here & Now
• TV: Carême

Books & Authors

• Louise Erdrich Wins Gish Prize
• Reading with... Rachel Pastan

Book Review

• Starred YA Review: What Rough Beast

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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