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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, May 15, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Permanence
  • Ghost Town
  • Layaway Child: Stories
  • Memory House
  • No Way Home
  • The Pillagers' Guide to Arctic Pianos

• Mystery & Thriller

  • ★  Thanks for Watching

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • ★  Burn the Sea
  • We Dance Upon Demons

• History

  • Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago
  • Perfect Coincidence: The Extraordinary Friendship and Astonishing Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Claire and the Cathedral
  • ★  A Door Is to Open
  • The Redwood Bargain
  • Seconds to Spare
  • Weird, Wild, and Rare: Extraordinary Animals of the United States

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Bonnie Friedman

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Carol Rumens

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, May 15, 2026

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Quotation of the Day

• 'Books Are Not Monuments. They Are Instructions'

News

• The Otto Bookstore, Williamsport, Pa., Celebrates Expansion
• Bookseller Keaton Patterson Launches Grave Empire Horror Press
• International Update: BA's Annual Workforce Survey; ABA's Bookseller of the Year Shortlists
• Obituary Note: Philip Caputo

Notes

• Image of the Day: . . . AGAIN with Rain Taxi and Moon Palace
• Reel Booksellers: 'When the Social Media Girl Is Here & It's Content Day'
• Chalkboard: Wicked Good Books
• Personnel Changes at TvS Media Group
• Addendum: Debut on the Indie Press Top 40 List, John of John

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Fresh Air Remembers Philip Caputo
• TV: Anna Pigeon

Books & Authors

• Awards: Dylan Thomas Winner
• Reading with... Peter Wohlleben

Book Review

• Review: Habits of the Sea

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Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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Maximum Review

• Rottenheart

The Writer's Life

• Kat Dunn: Madness, Shakespeare, and Stepmothers

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May 6, 2026 Dedicated Issue: Introducing Berkley XO

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Editors' Note

• Celebrating the Launch of Berkley XO

News

• Q&A with Christine Ball and Jen Klonsky
• Reap & Sow by Charlotte B. Plumb
• Crash Course by Piper Lawson
• Drown the Bones by Alexandra Kennington