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

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

The Writer's Life

• Kristen Millares Young: A Willingness to Be Astonished

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: The Impossible Will Take a Little While

Maximum Shelf

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

Book Review

• 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

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Thursday, October 29, 2026

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News

• Morning Bookclub Debuts in San Antonio, Tex.
• Darkly Rooted Books Hosts Grand Opening in Atlanta, Ga.
• The Crooked Nook, Laingsburg, Mich., Opening Bricks-and-Mortar Store
• Dorothy June Booksellers, Foley, Ala., Adds Cafe
• Obituary Note: Kathy Fortney

Notes

• Image of the Day: JooHee Yoon at Sullaluna in NYC
• This Week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers
• 'I'm a Bookstore Owner but I'm Also a...'
• Book Trailer of the Day: Why We Buy and Why It Matters

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Carla Hall on Today
• This Weekend on Book TV: The Southern Festival of Books

Books & Authors

• Awards: Readings New Australian Fiction Winner
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites

Book Review

• Review: Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life

Deeper Understanding

• Robert Gray: Haunted by the Shadows of the Old Booksellers

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Tuesday October 27, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Good Girls and Alpha Males

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Maximum Review

• Good Girls and Alpha Males: How Conservative Media Is Targeting Gen Z

The Writer's Life

• Madeline Peltz: Connecting the Personal with the Political

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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