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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, July 31, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Tangled Roots
  • The Great Wherever
  • An Infinite Love Story
  • Small Comfort
  • Tata

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Fabulous Bodies
  • It Could Have Been Her
  • The Wedding Week

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Green City Wars

• Romance

  • ★  Scandal of the Summer
  • Chase Me if You Can

• History

  • ★  The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  I Didn't Do It
  • Farah's Nose: A Celebration of South Asian Heritage and Family
  • Digger Daisy!
  • Fatal Glitch: Camp Zero

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Meryl Branch-McTiernan

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Shahrnush Parsipur

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Thursday, August 6, 2026

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News

• NVNR: 'We Will Not Be Silenced' Opening Breakfast
• HarperCollins Fourth Quarter: Sales Up 15%
• Angela Baggetta Named Publisher of Columbia Global Reports
• Obituary Note: Derek Johns
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Indie Pre-Order E-Blast

Notes

• Image of the Day: Celadon Celebrates The Secret Dinner
• Reese Witherspoon's August Book Club Pick: The Wild Beneath
• This Week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers
• At Third Place Books, Ruchti Heads to Grad School, Michels Named Author Events Manager
• Terry Borzumato-Greenberg Joins TvS Media Group

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Claire Vaye Watkins on Fresh Air
• This Weekend on Book TV: Matthew Spalding on The Making of the American Mind

Books & Authors

• Awards: Miles Franklin Winner
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites

Book Review

• Review: Will and Attention: A Memoir

Deeper Understanding

• Robert Gray: 'So Many Quiet Stories in One Room, All Overlapping at Once'

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Wednesday August 5, 2026: Maximum Shelf: When They Find Me

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Maximum Review

• When They Find Me

The Writer's Life

• Carter Wilson: Small Casts and Huge Consequences

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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