Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, April 3, 2026

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Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Like This, but Funnier
  • ★  Son of Nobody
  • ★  One of Us
  • ★  Inheritance
  • ★  The Fountain
  • ★  Lady Tremaine
  • ★  The Last Letters of Sally and Walter
  • ★  The Disappointment
  • ★  All the World Can Hold
  • ★  Big Nobody
  • ★  I Am the Ghost Here
  • The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
  • How to Hold Someone in Your Heart
  • Python's Kiss
  • Strange Girls
  • Spoiled Milk
  • American Fantasy
  • The Adjunct
  • The Beheading Game
  • Strange Buildings
  • Konfidenz
  • Tailbone
  • A Good Person
  • Westward Women
  • I Love You Don't Die
  • Daughter of Egypt
  • The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts
  • I Am Agatha
  • Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

• Mystery & Thriller

  • The Primrose Murder Society
  • The Survivor
  • Missing Sister
  • Haven

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • ★  Nobody's Baby
  • Hell's Heart
  • The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale
  • Green & Deadly Things
  • The Geomagician

• Romance

  • Dog Person
  • Toe to Toe
  • Second Chance Duet
  • The Fortune Flip

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Shut Up and Read
  • Woman House: Essays and Assemblages
  • What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and a Murder Investigation
  • Service Ready: A Story of Love, Restaurants, and the Power of Hospitality

• History

  • True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink
  • Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe's First Family
  • The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World

• Social Science

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

• Psychology & Self-Help

  • The Life You Want

• Nature & Environment

  • ★  Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness

• Poetry

  • ★  A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems

• Now in Paperback

  • Say You'll Remember Me
  • Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
  • Good Dirt
  • Fire Exit

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Heiress of Nowhere
  • ★  Is This... Spring?
  • ★  Bartleby
  • ★  Fruitcake: A Graphic Novel
  • ★  Who Hid the Stars?: How Light Pollution Changes Our World
  • ★  Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an American Incarceration Camp
  • ★  Baseball's Shining Season: America's Pastime on the Brink of War
  • ★  Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria
  • ★  Piper at the Gates of Dusk
  • ★  Where No Shadow Stays
  • ★  The Danger of Small Things
  • Red River Rose
  • The Lost Robot
  • How to Be Normal
  • Fabulous Creatures: Legendary Animals from Around the World
  • ★  Arthur's Cat
  • Time to Split
  • My Someone: A Pet Adoption Story
  • Hmong: A Graphic History
  • The Celestial Seas
  • ¡Viva Valenzuela!: Fernandomania Erupts in Los Angeles
  • Burn the Water
  • Finding Life: A Prehistoric Search and Find

The Writer's Life

• Scott Kurtz and Emily B. Martin: Fantastical Origins
• Kory Stamper: The Language of Color
• Jung Yun: 'Crises help us see the good more clearly'
• Carole Lindstrom and Linda Sue Park: Countering Beloved Narratives
• Jeannine A. Cook: Building Literary Bridges

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