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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, October 9, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Fair Ones: A Double Novel
  • Night of a Thousand Hells
  • Partita
  • The Radiance

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Murder on 34th Street
  • The Sisters of Crimson House

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Court of Venus

• Graphic Books

  • ★  Requiem for Gaza

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Salty, Not Sweet: A Life in the Food World

• Social Science

  • The Agatha Christie Cure: What Reading the Queen of Crime Taught Me About Life

• Essays & Criticism

  • There's a Monster in the Lake: The World as a Fantastical Place

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Voice of the Snow!
  • ★  Stealing Saint Nick: A Legendary Corpse, a Notorious Theft, and the Stories That Shape the World
  • The Secret to Belonging
  • Styx: The River
  • Young Cat, Old Cat

The Writer's Life

• Aaron Blabey and Game of Pets: An Unexpected Collision of Ideas

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Maximum Shelf

• The Memory of Borrowed Books
• Meg Anderson: Books Feel Like Home

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Peter May

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, October 9, 2026

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Editors' Note

• Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day

News

• Heartland Fall Forum: Pictures at an Exhibition
• Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: The Climate Crisis We Stopped Talking About
• Cultura Books Debuts in Collingswood, N.J.
• Forrest and Fawn Bookstore Grows in Riverton, Wyo.
• Bookshop.org: Milestones Met, More Milestones Set
• B&N Opens Stores in Tucson, Ariz., and San Marcos, Calif.,
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Indie Pre-Order E-Blast

Notes

• Image of the Day: Seven Curious Ants at Books on the Square
• Canadian Booksellers Celebrate Anne Carson's Nobel in Literature Win
• Cool Idea: The Reading Party
• Banned Books Week Display: The Purple Couch Bookshop
• Chalkboard: Henry's Books 

Media and Movies

• Short Films from the Booker Prize Shortlist
• TV: The Titanic Story of Evelyn

Books & Authors

• Awards: Goldsmiths Shortlist
• Reading with... Avia Tadmor

Book Review

• Review: Party with Cassowary

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Wednesday October 7, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Dragon of the Deep

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Maximum Review

• Dragon of the Deep

The Writer's Life

• Beth Revis: There's No Path but the One You Make

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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