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

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• 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

The Writer's Life

• Elizabeth Acevedo: Community over Isolation

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Annie Dillard

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, September 25, 2026

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News

• New Owners for Vroman's and Book Soup
• Periwinkle Books Opens in Bronxville, N.Y.
• Grand Opening for Little Fox Bookshop, Southbury, Conn., this Weekend 
• The Novel Narwhal Relocates in Roanoke, Tex.

Notes

• Image of the Day: Transgender Scholars at Bureau of General Services--Queer Division
• Staff Shoutout: Parnassus Books
• Bookseller Dog: Rugby at Interabang Books
• Book Trailer of the Day: Visible

Media and Movies

• Movies: Fake Skating

Books & Authors

• Awards: PEN Heaney Shortlist
• Reading with... Ankur Thakkar

Book Review

• Review: Fabrications

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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