Fussy’s favorites: The early October 2020 edition

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

Awards and updates

• Booker ceremony moves back a few days to accommodate Obama memoir 

• Meet the finalists for the 2020 National Book Awards 

• Congratulations to the 2020 MacArthur Foundation fellows! 

• Poet Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel in Literature 

On the lighter side 

• Author Q&A: Tricia O'Malley 

• Take a peek into The Madman’s Library

• Newly discovered piece by Raymond Chandler mocks corporate life 

• See the most popular book set in every country

TV and theaters 

• Screen adaptations: The Witches and Dr. Seuss 

• Here's why you're seeing more book adaptations lately 

Your TBR pile 

• Here are the decade's 100 most frequently challenged books 

• Amazon's First Reads for October 2020 

• Celebrity book club picks for October 2020