Fussy’s favorites: Week of April 19, 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.

Read an excerpt …

• Free read: “A Room in Baltimore” 

• Check out an excerpt of Nnedi Okorafor's next novella 

… or listen to a story

• Michelle Obama joins the ranks of celebs reading books to kids 

• Stephen King reads a chapter from If It Bleeds 

• Suzanne Collins reads from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 

Notable lists

• ALA releases the top ten most challenged books of 2019 

• Here's the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist 

The pandemic and literature

• International Booker Prize announcement has been postponed 

• Poetry project will create a living record of this pandemic 

• Notes from an Apocalypse author's research was eerily prescient