Fussy’s favorites: Week of November 16, 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.

Future releases

• Harlan Ellison's long-delayed sci-fi anthology might be published 

• English version of Olga Tokarczuk's all-ages book is coming soon

• J.R.R. Tolkien's essays about Middle-earth will come out in June

Award news 

• The 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal shortlists are out 

• Congratulations to the 2020 National Book Award winners! 

• "Shuggie Bain" wins the 2020 Booker Prize

Political memoirs, present and possible 

• Listen to an excerpt from A Promised Land 

• What publishing industry insiders think about a possible Trump memoir 

Screen time

• CW to adapt Jane Austen's novels, set them in the modern era 

• Quentin Tarantino will publish a novel based on his own movie

On the lighter side

• Infographic: How the world read in 2020 

• The must-read book of 2020: a satirical novel from 1890