Fussy’s favorites: Week of November 11, 2019

It’s easy to miss the occasional post or two online, so we’ve rounded up some of the highlights from our reader blog this week.

Roll out the red carpet

• TIME releases its 100 must-read books for 2019

• Barnes & Noble announces finalists for first Book of the Year award

• Literary Hub quizzes the National Book Awards finalists

• Ducks, Newburyport wins over Goldsmiths Prize judges, at least

• The Testaments is Amazon's favorite book of 2019

Go on a shopping spree

• Ian Fleming's letters to and from wife are headed to auction

• Judi Dench: Help the Brontë museum buy Charlotte's miniature book

• Extra stanza of Baudelaire's "The Jewels" becomes public

Authors and authorities

• Book battles: Bulk orders of Triggered and Balkan conspiracy theories

• Turkish author recently released from jail is arrested again

• Edward Snowden: Chinese regime has censored my memoir

• Author detained by Australia for six years will attend literary festival

Blasts from the past

• Meet the woman who brought Dostoevsky, other Russian authors into English

• Podcast looks at famous crime that intrigued Harper Lee

• Writers who served in the military