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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, July 10, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Single Girls
  • Medea Sang Me a Corrido
  • The Typing Lady
  • We Were Forbidden

• Mystery & Thriller

  • An Artful Dodge

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Traveler

• Biography & Memoir

  • The Keys to My House: A Gaza Diary

• Social Science

  • ★  How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words

• Religion

  • Instructions for the End of the World: Homilies of Comfort and Resistance

• Science

  • ★  On the Origin of Sex: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Reproduction

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Skeleton and the Cat
  • Coming Out Perfect
  • Free Girls
  • HeartLand
  • ★  Leroy Has Something to Say
  • Teachers in the Wild

The Writer's Life

• Sophia Smith Galer: Learning from Every Language

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Dedicated Shelf

• Celebrating VIZ Media's 40th Anniversary
• The VIZ Media Timeline: 40 Years of Shaping Global Pop Culture

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Carlo Ginzburg

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Wednesday, July 15, 2026

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Quotation of the Day

• 'Thankfully, I've Learned So Much from Other Booksellers'

News

• Monstera's Books Expanding in Overland Park, Kan.
• Judging by the Cover Completes Move in Fresno, Calif.
• Owl & Ink Debuting This Month in Northern Va.
• Obituary Note: Betsy Rider
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Kids & YA Pre-Order E-Blast

Notes

• Image of the Day: Chuck Tingle Launch at Third Place Books
• Bookish FIFA World Cup: 'Bookstore Red & Yellow Cards' 
• Sales Floor Display: Third Place Books  
• Chalkboard: Highland Books
• Personnel Changes at Princeton University Press

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan on Fresh Air
• TV: The Shards

Books & Authors

• Awards: Wales Book of the Year Winners
• Reading with... Afsheen Farhadi

Book Review

• Children's Review: Snowfall

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Wednesday July 15, 2026: Maximum Shelf: You're No Better

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Maximum Review

• You're No Better

The Writer's Life

• Andrew Joseph White: A Vicious Catharsis

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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