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

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Gifts for Cooks

Book Review

• 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

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, December 5, 2025

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Quotation of the Day

• 'Booksellers Are Heroes for Their Communities'

News

• Shelf Awareness's Best Adult Books of 2025
• Holiday Hum: A 'Solid' Start to the Season; Inclement Weather
• ABA Announces Wi2026 Featured Keynote Speakers
• Cleveland's Visible Voice Books Opens in New Location
• International Update: French Government Considers AI Bill; Japanese Bookshops 'Leasing Out Shelves'
• Obituary Note: Charles Mitchell

Notes

• Image of the Day: Christina Kovac at Politics and Prose
• Bookshop Marriage Proposal: {pages} a bookstore
• Bookish Holiday Delivery Shoutout: Janke Book Store
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
• Book Trailer of the Day: Digital, Inc.

Media and Movies

• TV: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Books & Authors

• Awards: Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlist
• Reading with... Jen Percy

Book Review

• Review: Eradication: A Fable

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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.!