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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, October 2, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Fallow
  • Avalon, Rise
  • Dodge City
  • Ply
  • The Queen of Bad Influences

• Mystery & Thriller

  • A Game of Cat and Killer
  • Trad Wife

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Strange Bedfellows

• Biography & Memoir

  • Babe: Elaboratio: A Tribute to My Mother

• History

  • ★  An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America

• Travel Literature

  • ★  True North: On the Road in Canada

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Death in the Tallgrass
  • ★  The Grimlore Game
  • ★  To Our Untamed Core
  • Bravepaw and the Clawstone of Rotwood Mire
  • Building 903

The Writer's Life

• Keri Leigh Merritt: A Near Erasure from History

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Robin Morgan

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, October 2, 2026

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Editors' Note

• Shelf Awareness Call for Information: Multilingual

News

• The Wild Detectives, Dallas, Tex., Opens Second Location
• Lavender Cafe & Bookstore Launches in New Orleans, La.
• Mission Bookworm Coming to Mission, Kan., Next Month
• W.W. Norton Launching New Imprint, Norton Waverly
• International Update: Argentina's 'Bookselling Emergency'; An Post Bookshop of the Year Longlist 
• B&N: Bookstores Open in Woodmere, Ohio; Richmond, Tex.; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Mobile, Ala.

Notes

• Image of the Day: Jodi Picoult at the Bookmarks Festival
• Spooky Window Display: The Mysterious Bookshop
• Bookstore Dog: Rooney at Storyline Bookshop
• Chalkboard: Cottage Book Shop
• Personnel Changes at HarperCollins; Viking Penguin

Media and Movies

• Heated Rivalry Producers Launch a Real Version of the Books' Irina Foundation
• TV: Thornbird

Books & Authors

• Awards: Cercador Translation Finalists
• Reading with... Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and Shane Hawk

Book Review

• Review: To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time: A Memoir

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Tuesday September 22, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Goliath

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Maximum Review

• Goliath

The Writer's Life

• Ronald Lee Robertson: Race and the Mixed Blessing of Inheritance

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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