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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, May 29, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You
  • Offseason

• Mystery & Thriller

  • The Author Weekend

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Turn (W)here: A Geography of Home
  • Mother Tongue: A Memoir
  • True Crime

• History

  • The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World

• Business & Economics

  • Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better

• Essays & Criticism

  • Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children

• Poetry

  • ★  Wellwater: Poems

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Claude
  • The Edge of Forever
  • ★  The Saw Mouth
  • The Second Life of Snap
  • Queerleaders

The Writer's Life

• Julián Delgado Lopera: A Childhood Reimagined

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Philip Caputo

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Tuesday, June 2, 2026

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News

• Amazon Prime Day to Run June 23-26
• Typo's Bookstore Opens in Parkville, Mo.
• Austen's Shelf Opening Bricks-and-Mortar Store in Bordentown, N.J.
• Andrew Martin to Retire from St. Martin's
• Ghoulish Books, San Antonio, Tex., Closing This Month
• Obituary Note: Samar Hammam

Notes

• Image of the Day: Meghan Le Fay Launch at Changing Hands
• Cool Idea: Pride Month Bookstore T-shirt
• Personnel Changes at HarperCollins; Lakeside Book Co.; Zando
• Book Trailer of the Day: Man Therapy

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Maggie O'Farrell on Fresh Air
• Movies: The Baron in the Trees

Books & Authors

• Awards: CWA Dagger Shortlists

Book Review

• Review: The Mortons

The Bestsellers

• Top Book Club Picks in May

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Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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Maximum Review

• Rottenheart

The Writer's Life

• Kat Dunn: Madness, Shakespeare, and Stepmothers

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May 6, 2026 Dedicated Issue: Introducing Berkley XO

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Editors' Note

• Celebrating the Launch of Berkley XO

News

• Q&A with Christine Ball and Jen Klonsky
• Reap & Sow by Charlotte B. Plumb
• Crash Course by Piper Lawson
• Drown the Bones by Alexandra Kennington