Fussy’s favorites: Week of October 24, 2021

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.  

Special editions

• A first edition of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part One will head to auction

• A deluxe version of Little Women is on sale

Acclaimed authors

• An HBO series adaptation of Luster is in the works

• Meet the first-ever Maya Angelou Book Award winner

• US rights to Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah's books are finally selling

Comfort reading 

• The science behind our love for smelling old books 

• Why the Goosebumps books were one reader's perfect COVID escape