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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, November 21, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • Wreck
  • Best Wishes from the Full Moon Coffee Shop
  • Analog Days
  • Before the Mango Ripens
  • One, None, and a Hundred Grand

• Mystery & Thriller

  • The Botanist's Assistant
  • Haven't Killed in Years
  • The Bone Thief
  • The Burning Library

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • ★  The Everlasting
  • The Bookshop Below

• Romance

  • A Little Holiday Fling
  • Backslide

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary
  • Sorry I Keep Crying During Sex

• History

  • The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

• Business & Economics

  • ★  Raising Brows: My Story of Building a Billion-Dollar Beauty Empire

• Poetry

  • ★  Radicle, or When the World Lived Inside Us
  • Same: Poems
  • The Serious World

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Broken
  • ★  The Leaving Room
  • King of the Neuro Verse
  • The Clock

Great Reads

• Trans Literature, Then and Now
• Rediscover: Marina Lewycka

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Dedicated Shelf

• Founder Mark Siegel on First Second and 23rd St. Books
• 23rd St. Creative Director Kirk Benshoff: 'Clearing the Runway for Our Creators'

Rediscover

• Trans Literature, Then and Now
• Rediscover: Marina Lewycka

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Wednesday, November 26, 2025

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Editors' Note

• Happy Thanksgiving!

News

• Blackbird Books Opening Friday in Mansfield, Ohio
• New Owners for Asheville's Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar
• Linda Letra Bilingual Books, Portland, Ore., Adds Holiday Pop-Up that Could Stay
• Crazy Story Books Coming to Red Bank, N.J.
• A24 Opening Sections in Barnes & Noble Stores
• Obituary Note: Barry Austin

Notes

• Image of the Day: More Than a Game at Barrett Bookstore
• Thanksgiving Weekend Bookstore Forecast: Sunbound Books
• Pre-holiday Weekend Bookshop Moment: Vanishing Ink Books
• Personnel Changes at Macmillan

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Jonathan Karl, Karine Jean-Pierre on the View
• This Weekend on Book TV: The History Book Festival

Books & Authors

• Awards: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
• Reading with... Rebecca Brown
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites

Book Review

• Starred Children's Review: Frog

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Wednesday November 18, 2025: Maximum Shelf: When Trees Testify

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Maximum Review

• When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy

The Writer's Life

• Beronda L. Montgomery: A Plant-based Reckoning with the Past

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November 20, 2025 Dedicated Issue: 23rd St. Celebrates Its First Year

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Books & Authors

• From :01 to 23: Founder Mark Siegel on First Second and 23rd St. Books
• Creative Director Kirk Benshoff: 'Clearing the Runway for Our Creators'
• Calista Brill Highlights Books from 23rd St.'s First Year
• 2026 Books: Four New Titles for the New Year
• Editors' Note: Happy Birthday and Many More, 23rd St.!