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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, March 6, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Brawler
  • ★  Gunk

• Mystery & Thriller

  • ★  I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
  • Crown City

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Fox Hunt

• Romance

  • And Now, Back to You

• Biography & Memoir

  • Traversal
  • Good Woman: A Reckoning

• Social Science

  • Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV
  • The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

• Poetry

  • Nighthawks

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Rare Bird
  • ★  The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan
  • ★  The Future Book
  • Midnight Mayhem
  • Estela, Undrowning

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Janie Chang

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Edward Hoagland

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Wednesday, March 11, 2026

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News

• London Book Fair 2026: PRH UK's Tom Weldon in Conversation
• Whistler's Daughter Books Opens in Ferndale, Mich.
• Crowdfunder Supports Lark & Owl Booksellers, Georgetown, Tex.
• Powell's Books Opening New PDX Store
• British Book Awards' Independent Bookshop of the Year Regional Winners

Notes

• Reading Group Choices' Most Popular February Books
• Bookseller Moment: Serendipity Books
• IPG Adds Five Publishers
• Personnel Changes at Union Square & Co.
• Book Trailer of the Day: Was It Something I Said?

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: John Grisham on CBS Mornings
• Movies: In the Valley of Shadows

Books & Authors

• Awards: Nero Gold Winner
• Reading with... Jacquie Walters
• Top Library Recommended Titles for March

Book Review

• YA Review: Seconds to Spare

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Wednesday March 4, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

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Maximum Review

• Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

The Writer's Life

• Ben Reeves: Life and Death and Empathy

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February 19, 2026 Dedicated Issue: William Morrow's 100th Anniversary

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Editors' Note

• Congratulations, William Morrow!

Books & Authors

• A Century of Publishing Influential and Popular Works
• 'Carrying on the Tradition of Exceptional Publishing'
• Q&A: The Heads of Fiction and Nonfiction on William Morrow