Fussy’s favorites: Week of March 29, 2020

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.

Trending books

• Here's the 2020 International Booker Prize shortlist

• Celebrity book club picks for April 2020

• NY Times: Read these books after finishing Tiger King

From the children’s section

• Strega Nona author Tomie dePaola has died

• Let Dolly Parton read you a bedtime story

• Harry Potter and the fight against bored quarantined kids

• Julie Andrews is ready to read to your children

Blasts from the past

• Reflections on Black Beauty in honor of Anna Sewell's 200th birthday

• Quarantine reading from throughout history

• Meet — and admire — the real person behind Amy March 

• Letters from Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Hardy's wife become public

Generous gifts

• Literary award administrators decide to share the prize money

• James Patterson donates $500,000 to indie bookstores