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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, April 10, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Like This, but Funnier
  • ★  Inheritance
  • ★  The Last Letters of Sally and Walter
  • The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
  • American Fantasy
  • Tailbone

• Mystery & Thriller

  • The Survivor

• Romance

  • Dog Person

• Biography & Memoir

  • What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and a Murder Investigation

• Social Science

  • London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Fruitcake: A Graphic Novel
  • ★  Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an American Incarceration Camp
  • ★  Baseball's Shining Season: America's Pastime on the Brink of War
  • ★  Piper at the Gates of Dusk
  • How to Be Normal
  • Hmong: A Graphic History

The Writer's Life

• Scott Kurtz and Emily B. Martin: Fantastical Origins

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Alexander Kluge

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, April 10, 2026

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Quotation of the Day

• 'I Absolutely Love Being the Bookstore Lady'

News

• Grand Opening Saturday for Odd Bird Bookshop, Bel Air, Md.
• Storytime Bookshop, Kennewick, Wash., Searching for New Home After Fire
• Abrams Launches New Wellness Imprint, ABRAMS Well
• Kate DiCamillo and Karen Lotz 'Leap' to Norton
• International Update: Debbie James Named BA President; Dutch Booksellers on Wi2026

Notes

• Image of the Day: Prepub Party for Julie Carrick Dalton
• Anne Zafian Retiring from Simon & Schuster
• Cool Idea: Verbatim Books' Read Out Event
• Reading Group Choices' Most Popular March Books
• Personnel Changes at Candlewick Press, Holiday House, and Peachtree

Media and Movies

• On Stage: The Great Gatsby
• TV: The God of the Woods

Books & Authors

• Awards: Arabic Fiction Winner; Dublin Literary Shortlist
• Reading with... Morgan Day

Book Review

• Review: Sisters of a Halved Heart

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Thursday April 2, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Plant Lady

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Maximum Review

• Plant Lady

The Writer's Life

• Minyoung Kang: Green and Red, Plants and Blood

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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