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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, October 23, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • Butter Road
  • Luna, Phoenix, Queen
  • Victorious
  • What Happens at Nightfall

• Romance

  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder

• Food & Wine

  • Wine: A Global History

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Desire Lines: A Memoir
  • ★  On Another Planet They Can Save Me
  • This Is What Happens When Women Read

• History

  • ★  A History of the World in Twelve Beans

• Travel Literature

  • How to Travel Incognito

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Children of Owl
  • ★  Second Generation Blues
  • ★  Like Glass
  • The Ones Who Came Before
  • The Moonlit Spiral

The Writer's Life

• Kristen Millares Young: A Willingness to Be Astonished

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Maximum Shelf

• When They Find Me
• Carter Wilson: Small Casts and Huge Consequences

Rediscover

• Rediscover: The Impossible Will Take a Little While

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, October 23, 2026

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News

• Catapult Book Group to Be Sold, Cease Operations
• Ichabod's Books & Scares Arrives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• Lakeside Books Hosts Grand Opening in Waconia, Minn.
• Outpost Books Has Grand Opening in South Pasadena, Calif.
• The Wuthering Raven, Troup, Tex., Expands
• Obituary Note: John Iliffe 

Notes

• Image of the Day: Joan and John Cusack at City Lit Books
• Happy 10th Birthday, Print: A Bookstore
• Cool Idea: '30-Second Snail Sweep'
• Bookshop Cat: Cheesepuff at Book Barn
• Bookseller Moment: Shared Stories

Media and Movies

• TV: Fourth Wing

Books & Authors

• Awards: B&N Book of the Year Finalists
• Reading with... Sonja Swift

Book Review

• Review: Eating with the Sun: A Memoir of Food, Family, and the Chinese Calendar

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Thursday October 15, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Human Again

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Maximum Review

• Human Again: The Lost Art of Being Alive

The Writer's Life

• Dr. Chris Cleave: Regaining Our Humanity

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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