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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, October 10, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Discontent
  • ★  Sister Creatures
  • Wolf Bells
  • Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story
  • Calls May Be Recorded
  • The Wax Child
  • Kataraina
  • Capitalists Must Starve

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World

• Graphic Books

  • The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir About Food, Love & Family
  • Witchcraft

• Social Science

  • Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses

• Parenting & Family

  • Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief & Bereavement

• Poetry

  • ★  The Unreliable Tree: Poems
  • ★  Lullaby for the Grieving

• Now in Paperback

  • That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
  • Water, Water: Poems
  • The Sequel
  • Playground
  • Model Home

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Teacher of Nomad Land
  • ★  Scarlet Morning
  • ★  Cat Nap
  • This Is How We Roll
  • The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli

The Writer's Life

• Daniel Miyares: My Father's Stories

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: László Krasznahorkai

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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Editors' Note

• Shelf Awareness Call for Information: Indies First/Small Business Saturday

News

• PRH Two-Day Holiday Transit Plan for Indies Launches Tomorrow
• MPIBA: Navigating Attacks on Your Store
• Zibby's Bookshop Opening NYC Pop-Up Today
• B&N Opening New Stores Tomorrow in Idaho, Fla., & Calif.
• Memorial Service for Dan Cullen Set for November 2

Notes

• Image of the Day: 88 Years of Powell's Experience
• Bookseller Tats: Blacksburg Books
• Personnel Changes at Hachette Nashville; Sourcebooks
• Book Trailer of the Day: Gone Before Goodbye

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Michael Lewis on CBS Mornings
• TV: All Her Fault

Books & Authors

• Awards: Kirkus Winners

Book Review

• Review: The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late

The Bestsellers

• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles

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Monday October 6, 2025: Maximum Shelf: Thistlemarsh

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Maximum Review

• Thistlemarsh

The Writer's Life

• Moorea Corrigan: Fantasy, History, and Fairies--with a Twist

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October 7, 2025 Dedicated Issue: Introducing Ten Speed Young Readers

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Editors' Note

• Crown Launches Ten Speed Young Readers Imprint

Books & Authors

• Introducing Ten Speed Young Readers
• Ginee Seo and Kelly Barrales-Saylor: Meant to Be
• Kobi Yamada: Others
• Designing the Book with Monica Cheng
• Upcoming Titles from Ten Speed Young Readers