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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, September 18, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • Dear Future Occupants
  • The Pirate Queen
  • The Witches of Cambridge

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Pictures of You

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Blacktail

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir on Writing
  • Idle in Provence: A Brief History of Thyme

• Social Science

  • ★  Plastic Shaman: The True Story of a Deadly Self-Help Retreat and America's Misguided Quest for Wellness

• Essays & Criticism

  • Story Telling: A Writing Life

• Nature & Environment

  • The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me About Nature's Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life

• Humor

  • ★  Receipts from the Bookshop: A Bookseller's Year in an English Seaside Town

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Who Knows the Way to Mr. Grimly's Classroom?
  • ★  Absent
  • ★  Adam, Mine.
  • The Wild Season
  • Tell the Ghosts I'm Gone

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Seven Rasmussen

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Maximum Shelf

• Ten Perfect Guests
• Jonathan Santlofer: The Art of Unlikable Characters

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Gloria Steinem

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Wednesday, September 23, 2026

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News

• AAP Sales: Up 14% in July; Year to Date Up 5.4%
• The Understory Opens in Tahoe City, Calif.
• Grand Opening Set for Mystic Tomes Fantasy Bookstore, Wolfforth, Tex.
• Trailhead Books, Raytown, Mo., Closing Bricks-and-Mortar Store
• Obituary Note: Terry Denton

Notes

• Image of the Day: Alexis Krasilovsky at Book Soup
• Booksellers Celebrate Baby-Sitters Club's 40th Birthday
• Handselling POV: 'Convincing You the Book You've Never Heard of Is Great'
• IPG Adds Five Publishers
• Book Trailer of the Day: Mother Dearest

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Taylor Tomlinson on the Drew Barrymore Show
• TV: Smilla's Sense of Snow

Books & Authors

• Awards: Booker Shortlist; Wainwright Winners
• Reading with... Linda Kass

Book Review

• YA Review: The Unpoetic Life of August Grey

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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