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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, March 6, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Brawler
  • ★  Gunk

• Mystery & Thriller

  • ★  I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
  • Crown City

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Fox Hunt

• Romance

  • And Now, Back to You

• Biography & Memoir

  • Traversal
  • Good Woman: A Reckoning

• Social Science

  • Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV
  • The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

• Poetry

  • Nighthawks

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Rare Bird
  • ★  The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan
  • ★  The Future Book
  • Midnight Mayhem
  • Estela, Undrowning

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Janie Chang

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Edward Hoagland

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, March 6, 2026

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Quotation of the Day

• Bookseller or Librarian & Young Reader: 'Such an Amazing Connection'

News

• Àbákẹ́ Books & Café Opens in Jersey City, N.J.
• Judging by the Cover, Fresno, Calif., Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
• The Books Cellar Coming to Jacksonville, Fla., This Spring
• B&N Closing Bookstore in San Bruno, Calif.
• International Update: SLF Boycott Bumps Amazon from Paris Book Festival; BA Group's Initiative

Notes

• Image of the Day: Honor Flight at Old Town Books
• GMA, Reese's Book Club Picks
• Happy 20th Birthday, Stone Soup Books!
• Two Rivers to Sell and Distribute Guinness World Records
• Personnel Changes at Abrams; Grand Central and Forever

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Michaeleen Doucleff on CBS Mornings
• TV: Lovejoy

Books & Authors

• Awards: Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist
• Reading with... Laura Taylor Namey

Book Review

• Review: Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas

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Wednesday March 4, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

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Maximum Review

• Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

The Writer's Life

• Ben Reeves: Life and Death and Empathy

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February 19, 2026 Dedicated Issue: William Morrow's 100th Anniversary

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Editors' Note

• Congratulations, William Morrow!

Books & Authors

• A Century of Publishing Influential and Popular Works
• 'Carrying on the Tradition of Exceptional Publishing'
• Q&A: The Heads of Fiction and Nonfiction on William Morrow