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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, May 29, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You
  • Offseason

• Mystery & Thriller

  • The Author Weekend

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Turn (W)here: A Geography of Home
  • Mother Tongue: A Memoir
  • True Crime

• History

  • The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World

• Business & Economics

  • Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better

• Essays & Criticism

  • Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children

• Poetry

  • ★  Wellwater: Poems

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Claude
  • The Edge of Forever
  • ★  The Saw Mouth
  • The Second Life of Snap
  • Queerleaders

The Writer's Life

• Julián Delgado Lopera: A Childhood Reimagined

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Philip Caputo

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, May 29, 2026

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Quotation of the Day

• 'The Entire Staff Picks Wall Was Dedicated to My Book'

News

• The ABA Annual Meeting & Community Forum: Celebrating a 'Challenging, Banner' Year
• Grand Opening Set for Wisp Bookshop's Storefront in Middletown, Del.
• Purrs & Pages Coming to Ocala, Fla.
• Obituary Note: David Henderson

Notes

• Image of the Day: Newtonville Books Hosts Jayne Anne Phillips & Tom Perrotta
• 'Meet Nan, the Queen of the Quote at Powell's Books'
• Bookseller Cat: Rama at Sabu's Books
• Sales Floor Display: BookPeople
• Personnel Changes at PRH, Random House Publishing Group

Media and Movies

• On Stage: Girl, Interrupted
• TV: Welcome to Catalina

Books & Authors

• Awards: Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Shortlist
• Reading with... Warren Liu

Book Review

• Starred Review: Please Don't Touch the Body: Stories

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Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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Maximum Review

• Rottenheart

The Writer's Life

• Kat Dunn: Madness, Shakespeare, and Stepmothers

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May 6, 2026 Dedicated Issue: Introducing Berkley XO

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Editors' Note

• Celebrating the Launch of Berkley XO

News

• Q&A with Christine Ball and Jen Klonsky
• Reap & Sow by Charlotte B. Plumb
• Crash Course by Piper Lawson
• Drown the Bones by Alexandra Kennington