Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, March 29, 2019

From My Shelf

• Poetry Connections
• Diversity and Tropes: Making YA a More Inclusive Space
• Gardens, Sisters and Secrets
• Spy Fact and Fiction
• The Complexity of Landscape
• Books on the Brain

Book Candy

• Brief Histories of Classic Typefaces
• The Joys of Reading at a Pub
• How to Throw a Game of Thrones Wedding
• A Literary Pilgrimage in the Real World
• Happy St. Patrick's Day!
• Anatomy of a Book
• Books About Hollywood

Maximum Shelf

• Ben Sevier: One Lucky Editor
• Run Away

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Slaughterhouse-Five
• Rediscover: Mrs. Caliban
• Rediscover: W.S. Merwin
• Rediscover: One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Rediscover: The Tale of Genji

The Writer's Life

• Erin E. Stead: A Little Earnest
• Arkady Martine: Political Intrigue and Murder--in Space
• Lisa See: A Deep Dive into Forgiveness
• Reading with... Holly Ringland
• Frans de Waal: Uncovering Secrets in the Animal World

Book Review

• Fiction

  • White Elephant
  • Little Boy
  • The Island of Sea Women
  • Me for You
  • The River
  • Woman 99
  • Who Killed the Fonz?
  • The White Card: A Play
  • Tomorrow There Will Be Sun
  • Queenie
  • The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
  • Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning
  • Bom Boy
  • The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man
  • The Night Swimmers
  • kaddish.com
  • A People's History of Heaven
  • In the Blink of an Eye

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Unto Us a Son Is Given
  • Call Me Evie
  • Smoke and Ashes
  • The Reign of the Kingfisher
  • The Last Woman in the Forest
  • Connections in Death
  • A Deadly Divide
  • Before She Knew Him
  • Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna
  • A Dangerous Collaboration
  • Hunting Game
  • Killing Eve: No Tomorrow

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Mars: Stories
  • The Bird King
  • Creation Machine
  • A Memory Called Empire
  • The Light Brigade

• Biography & Memoir

  • Solitary
  • The Trial of Lizzie Borden
  • The Salt Path
  • On Being 40(ish)
  • First: Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Notes on a Shipwreck
  • Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir
  • Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience
  • Women Who Dared: To Break All the Rules
  • The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
  • This Much Country

• Business & Economics

  • Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of Josh Harris and the Great Dotcom Swindle

• Social Science

  • She He They Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters

• Essays & Criticism

  • A Desert Harvest
  • Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

• Religion

  • Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
  • The Secrets of Paper and Ink

• Psychology & Self-Help

  • What Matters Most: The Get Your Sh*t Together Guide to Wills, Money, Insurance, and Life's "What-Ifs"

• Science

  • An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System

• Nature & Environment

  • Mama's Last Hug: Animal and Human Emotions
  • Humanimal: How Homo Sapiens Became Nature's Most Paradoxical Creature
  • The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape

• Sports

  • Running Home

• Travel Literature

  • See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy
  • Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

• Children's & Young Adult

  • Music for Mister Moon
  • The Weight of the Stars
  • Opposite of Always
  • Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer
  • Tree of Dreams
  • Internment
  • The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng
  • Two Men and a Car: Franklin Roosevelt, Al Capone, and a Cadillac V-8
  • Shout
  • Dig
  • Crescendo
  • A Good Kind of Trouble
  • Noah Builds an Ark

• Teen Readers Recommend

  • The Tesla Legacy
  • Once & Future