Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade

• Movies: The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
• Bookseller Cat: Teddy at the Author Shoppe
• Happy Fifth Birthday, Betty's Books!
• Cool Idea: 'Book Tastings'
• National Book Award Longlist: Fiction
• Obituary Note: Deirdre McDermott
• Phil Klay Named President of PEN America 
• Media Heat: Serena Wolf on Good Morning America
• NEIBA Fall Conference: It's a Wrap
• NEIBA Fall Conference: 'Every Event Is a Special Event'
• Bookshop Moment: The Green Dragon Bookshop
• Awards: Sunburst Winners
• Letterpress Play & Books, Austin, Tex., Sets October Debut in New Space
• 'Keeping Bookshops Open Makes Books Accessible and Keeps Reading Relevant'
• Image of the Day: Challenging Sheinkin
• Reading with... Kasey Lansdale
• Starred Review: Fieldwork as a Sex Object
• Awards: New England Book, Golden Poppy Winners
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Sales Floor Display: 'Non-Human People'
• Good Girl Cafe & Bookstore Debuts in Englewood, Colo., After Delay
• National Book Award Longlists: Nonfiction, Poetry
• Obituary Note: Annie Dillard
• This Weekend on Book TV: Jonathan Weber on City on the Edge
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Robert Gray: Provincetown Recipe--Just Add a Bookseller, a Cookbook, & Anthony Bourdain
• NEIBA Fall Conference
• Media Heat: Kai Bird on Fresh Air
• Chalkboard: Ink & Paper Bookstore
• Gold Shoe Books Opens in St. Louis, Mo.
• Personnel Changes at Parson Weems
• Image of the Day: Bookshop Santa Cruz Celebrates as The Corrections Turns 25
• Review: Tiger's Mouth
• Personnel Changes at Knopf
• Four Booksellers Win Books Across Borders Scholarships
• National Book Award Longlists: Young People's Literature; Translated Literature
• Barnes & Noble Buying Joseph-Beth Booksellers
• Mahar Sperling to Lead Inner Traditions
• Melville House to Partner with Illuminating Media 
• CALIBA Fall Fest in Pictures
• Grand Opening Today of Howard University's New Campus Bookstore 
• Media Heat: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Good Morning America
• Movies: One Italian Summer
• Chalkboard: Curious Iguana
• Image of the Day: Game Day for Daniel Kraus
• Reading with... Chelsea Kim Long
• Starred Children's Review: Bathtime for Snow Monkeys
• Video: Changing of the Seasons, Bookstore Edition
• Primetime Bookish Emmy Winners
• CALIBA Fall Fest: Annual Meeting & Town Hall
• Cool Idea: 'Crafting Lorax-inspired Truffula Trees from Our Recycling'
• Obituary Note: Frances Stonor Saunders 
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Kids & YA Pre-Order E-Blast
• Awards: Hilary Weston Nonfiction Finalists
• The Business of Bookselling Graduates
• The Crowded Bookshelf Opens Physical Storefront in Fort Collins, Colo.
• Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster
• Media Heat: Ke Huy Quan on the View
• Review: The Imperfect City: Design, Serendipity, and the Real Life of City
• Image of the Day: Books & Books Presents Marlon James
• Banned Books Week
• ABA, ABFE, and 'A Call to Action'
• The Most Challenged Books of 2025
• Banned Books Week
• Chalkboard: Daisy Chain Book Co.
• Movies: Everything We Never Said
• Awards: Klaus Flugge Winner
• Cool Idea: 'A Week of Gratitude for Shopping Local'
• 'A Day in the Life of a Bookstore Owner': Little Blue Pigeon
• Media Heat: Colin Kaepernick on Fresh Air, the View
• The Whispering Page Arrives in Worthington, Ohio
• Review: Free Love: Adventures in Marriage and Polyamory
• Bookselling: 'There's an Enormous Amount Happening Behind the Scenes'
• Image of the Day: Eagle Eye Books Hosts Matt Dinniman
• Happy Medium Books Cafe, Jacksonville, Fla., Relocating, Expanding
• Spindle & Spine Bookstore Coming to High Point, N.C.
• Grand Opening Set for Bewitched Romance Bookstore, Tacoma, Wash.
• Cristina Iannarino of Books on the Square Is BPRNE's Handseller of the Year
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
• TV: Lonesome Dove
• Moravian Book Shop, Bethlehem, Pa., Celebrates Grand Reopening
• ABA's Finn Butterfield Named Associate Manager, Free Expression & Advocacy
• Celebrating a Longtime Bookseller at Chaucer's Books
• Awards: Giller Longlist
• Media Heat: Chloe Benjamin on Good Morning America
• Image of the Day: Cards on the Table at Porter Square Books
• Obituary Note: Edward Field
• Spellbound Sisters Bookstore & Cafe, Boardman, Ohio, Moving
• Bookseller Puppy: Rugby at Interabang Books
• Reading with... Ann Aguirre
• Starred Review: Botany of Madness
• Bohemian Bookshop Opening Bricks-and-Mortar Store in Denton, Tex.
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• In Memoriam: Fred Ciporen
• Kids Ink Books & Toys Expanding to Carmel, Ind., This Fall
• AAP Sales: Up 11% in June; First Half '26 Up 3.9%
• This Weekend on Book TV: 9/11 Remembered
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Robert Gray: The Last Days of Summer--Labor, Read a Book, Buy a Book 
• Image of the Day: The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker at Powerhouse Arena
• B&N Opening New Stores Next Week in Calif. & Pa.
• Media Heat: R.F. Kuang on Here & Now
• Awards: German Book Shortlist
• Two Rivers to Sell and Distribute Wordsworth Editions
• Reading Group Choices' Most Popular August Books
• Pages & Peonies, Grand Rapids, Mich., Closing Bricks-and-Mortar Store
• Review: The Nightingales of Boston
• Image of the Day: Launch Day for Ann Aguirre at Tropes & Trifles
• Movies: The Bell Jar
• Awards: Mo Siewcharran Shortlist
• International Update: Bloomsbury's 'Leadership Succession Plan'; FutureBook Conference at LBF 2027
• Book Trailer of the Day: World News from Waverley High
• Obituary Note: Rich Wojcikowski
• Hachette Book Group to Sell & Distribute Flame Tree Publishing
• Personnel Changes at Doubleday and Pantheon
• Media Heat: Richard Beck on Fresh Air
• Book Passage San Francisco Moves to Larger Ferry Building Space
• Bookseller Faves: September Romance Preview
• Reading with... Shifa Saltagi Safadi
• Starred YA Review: Children of Owl
• The Bookery of Old Town Opens in Brunswick, Ga.
• Glenside Book Garden Coming to Glenside, Pa.
• Libro.fm Bestsellers in August
• Image of the Day: Book Passage Hosts Congressman Jared Huffman
• Movies: If Love Should Die
• Bookseller Dog: Timber at Composition Shop
• Awards: Derek Walcott Poetry Finalists
• 'I Love the Environment of an Indie Bookstore'
• Willbloom Books to Launch Physical Storefront in Weaverville, N.C.
• Long Dark House Opens in Alexandria Va.
• Obituary Note: Robin Morgan
• Top Book Club Picks in August
• Media Heat: Casey Gerald on Fresh Air
• Review: Murmurs from the Hills: Rwandan Tales
• Storefront Window Mural: Analog Books
• B&N Opening New Stores Tomorrow in Fla. & Tex.
• Chalkboard: Main Street Books
• Media Heat: Fresh Air Remembers Gloria Steinem
• ThriftBooks to Close Halethorpe, Md., Warehouse
• TV: We've Decided to Go in a Different Direction
• Awards: Baillie Gifford Longlist
• Quimby's Bookstore, Brooklyn, N.Y., Relocating
• Seasonal Vibes: 'Getting into the Fall Spirit at the Bookshop'
• An Unlikely Story Wins BPRNE's Independent Spirit Award
• Chalkboard: The Book Cove
• Happy Labor Day!
• Burglary Damages East Village Bookshop's Midtown Store in Sacramento, Calif. 
• Personnel Changes at Bloomsbury
• Porchlight Books Arriving in Richardson, Tex.
• Reading with... Maha Hashwi
• Review: Notes on Postcards: A Memoir
• Leaves & Lore Grows in West Chester, Pa.
• Indie Bookstores Have 'Always Been Magical Spaces to Me'
• Obituary Note: Gloria Steinem
• Wiley Receiving BISG's Inaugural Founders Award
• Lakeside Book Co. Adds Four Publishers
• Personnel Changes at Chronicle Books; Berkley
• Image of the Day: Andre Hardy Launch at Warwick's
• Whitefish Bay Books Debuts in Wisconsin
• Back to School Window Display: Split Rock Books
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Indie Pre-Order E-Blast
• Robert Gray: Opening Bookshop Doors--Themes & Variations
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• This Weekend on Book TV: Theo Baker on How to Rule the World
• Awards: Cundill Shortlist
• Media Heat: Dr. Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell on CBS Mornings
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Bibliobar, Plano, Tex., Moving to New Location
• Starred Review: The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
• Bold Fork Books, Washington, D.C., Closing
• TV: Heated Rivalry Season 2 
• Well Read Bookstore Hosts Grand Opening in Lee's Summit, Mo.
• Linda Cannon Program Grant Winners
• Applications Open for Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship
• Obituary Note: Wendell Berry
• Personnel Changes at Macmillan; Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Media Heat: Natasha Singer on Fresh Air
• Sirena Noir Books Debuts in Southington, Conn.
• Awards: YA Book Prize Winner
• Bookshop Moment: Annie Bloom's Books
• Reading with... Hank Phillippi Ryan
• Children's Review: Our Starry, Starry Night
• Bookseller Video: 'Carpe the Cringe'
• Chalkboard: Curious Iguana
• Fable & Craft Co. Comes to Beaver, Pa.
• Awards: Hugo Winners
• Bookstore Wedding: Bookends & Beginnings
• TV: Enigma Variations
• Boss Lady Books Hosts Grand Opening in Beaumont, Tex.
• Books & Botanicals Debuts in Brainerd, Minn.
• Image of the Day: Alyssa Maxwell at Charter Books
• Obituary Note: Will Murray
• Red Wheel Weiser Selling, Distributing New World Library, Dharma Publishing
• Media Heat: Marlon James on All Things Considered
• Half Price Books Adding Store in St. Louis, Mo.
• Review: What She Saw
• Book Trailer of the Day: Maya: Seed Takes Root
• River & Ink Bookshop Arrives in Port Huron, Mich.
• Movies: The Troop
• Obituary Note: Lesley Grant-Adamson 
• Media Heat: Annie Lowrey on Fresh Air
• Black Bookstore Day: 'We Had a Magical Day'
• Image of the Day: Shingle Style Houses at Rizzoli
• Awards: Crook's Corner Longlist
• Caitlin Meyer Named Director of Publicity at Beacon Press
• Review: The Grassland Queen: An Avian Love Story in the American Plains
• Wijaya House Expanding to Tucson, Ariz.
• Book Trailer of the Day: Come Closer
• Bookstore Sidewalk Art: Rooted Books & Gifts
• The Ohio Reader Hits the Road
• At Penguin Random House, First Half Revenues Rise 2.3%
• HarperCollins's Katie McGarry Wins NEIBA's Saul Gilman Award
• Personnel Changes at New World Library; Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Hachette Book Group to Sell & Distribute Welbeck Publishing Group
• Movies: In a Holidaze
• Cool Idea of the Day: the Reading Bug's Kids Podcast Festival
• Obituary Note: Peter Nadas
• From My Shelf Books & Gifts, Wellsboro, Pa., Staying Open
• Reese's September Book Club Pick: Big Little Truths
• Awards: Heartland Booksellers Winners; Dr. Tony Ryan Finalists
• Beans & Bind Debuts in Spokane Valley, Wash.
• Grand Opening Tomorrow for the Lost Story Bookshop, Katy, Tex.
• Half Price Books, Austin, Tex., Opens Temporary Space in Anticipation of New Store
• Image of the Day: Palmdale in Palmdale
• Reading with... Malavika Kannan
• Review: No Such Thing as Monday
• HarperCollins Halloween Highlights
• Appalachian Pages Comes to Pikeville, Ky.
• TV: How to Kill Your Family
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Fern & Fable Books, Ormond Beach, Fla., Merging with Sister Store
• Magnolia & Main Books, Ridgeway, Va., Closing This Week
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• This Weekend on Book TV: Annie Jacobsen and Cory Doctorow
• Winter Institute 2027 Scholarship Winners
• Awards: Ned Kelly Shortlist
• Bookseller Cat: Copper at Analog Books
• A Shelf Awareness Presents Webinar: Actionable Tips for Fall Merchandising
• Robert Gray: Dolly Parton 'Believed Deeply in the Power of Reading'
• Happy 50th Birthday, Orinda Books
• Image of the Day: Silvia Moreno-Garcia Visits Newtonville Books
• Review: The Elements of Life: How Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Nourish Us and Threaten the Planet
• Grand Opening Set for Jolene's, Newark, Ohio
• PRH's Skip Dye Receiving BISG's Sally Dedecker Award for Lifetime Service
• Film: Donnie Darko Sequel Book in the Works
• Kona Stories Weathers Storm for Delayed Bookstore Romance Day
• Bookseller Moment: Hills & Hamlets Bookshop
• Obituary Note: John Rousmaniere
• International Update: Booksellers Association Restructures; Goldsboro Books Opens Store in Malaysia
• Personnel Changes at HarperCollins