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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, December 5, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • Audition
  • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
  • The Hounding
  • The Land in Winter
  • Mutual Interest
  • An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories
  • Oxford Soju Club
  • The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
  • When the Cranes Fly South

• Nonfiction

  • Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
  • Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
  • Lullaby for the Grieving
  • Mother Mary Comes to Me
  • One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
  • The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound
  • Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
  • Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)
  • There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
  • Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir

Holiday Gift-Giving

• Gifts for Cooks

Book Candy

• Book Candy

More Holiday Gifts

• Gifts for Cooks

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Monday, December 8, 2025

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Quotation of the Day

• 'The Black-owned Bookstore Is the Response' to Attacks on DEI and Diverse Books

News

• Monstera's Books Reopens After Fire Damage Forced Temporary Closure
• New Owners at Hedgehog.INK Bookstore, Fort Scott, Kan.
• Harlequin's Dianne Moggy Retiring
• Obituary Note: David Pryce-Jones

Notes

• Image of the Day: Cassandra Clare Launch at Barnes & Noble Union Square
• Happy 35th Birthday, Back of Beyond Books!
• C&T Publishing to Distribute Leisure Arts
• Personnel Changes at Hachette Book Group
• Book Trailer of the Day: Brimstone

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Patrick Markee on Fresh Air
• Movies: People We Meet on Vacation

Books & Authors

• Bookseller Faves: Best Romance Titles of the Year
• Awards: Nero, Black Orchid Winners

Book Review

• Review: The Midnight Taxi

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Wednesday December 3, 2025: Maximum Shelf: Celestial Lights

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Maximum Review

• Celestial Lights

The Writer's Life

• Cecile Pin: The High Cost of Ambition

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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.!