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Natalie Baszile discusses We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy.

Anna Burns wins the International Dublin Literary Award for Milkman. The 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize shortlist is announced. The CWA Dagger Awards are announced. Michael Robotham wins the Gold Dagger for Good Girl, Bad Girl. Agatha Christie and chess take center stage as a number of adaptations arrive.

Bernardine Evaristo will chair the judging panel for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021. Molly Stern, who was publisher of Crown before the shake-up at PRH, creates a new publishing company called Zando. Margaret Busby, an important voice in UK publishing, takes center stage. A Time for Mercy by John Grisham tops the bestseller list. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson soars to the top of the NYT nonfiction list. Suzanne Palmer wins the Theodore Sturgeon Award for “Waterlines.” There is a second trailer out for The Underground Railroad.

Vincent Brown, Camilla Townsend, and William Dalrymple are the 2020 finalists for the Cundill History Prize. The Millions selects “Must-Read Poetry” for October. Tor.com has a piece on Alternate History by Alaya Dawn Johnson and announces a new five-book contract with Tamsyn Muir. HBO is adapting Jo Nesbø’s The Son. The Game of Thrones TV sequel, House of the Dragon, has started casting.

The Anthony Awards and The Barry Awards are announced. The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation announces the winners of its 2020 Legacy Awards. Michael Kleber-Diggs wins the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Bill Gates has a book forthcoming in February, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. Some copies of A Time for Mercy by John Grisham contain printing errors. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas is headed to the movies. A teaser trailer is out for The Underground Railroad.

In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren leads holds this week. People’s “Book of the Week” is Eleanor by David Michaelis. The November issue of Entertainment Weekly has published. It has a fair amount of book coverage and a great deal of adaptation news. The L.A. Times writes about paper’s Festival of Books, the lineup and ways to watch. There are additional virtual book events for the week and two guides detail the highlights. Big Sky, based on the C. J. Box novels, gets a trailer, which is going viral.

Time picks “The 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time.” N.K. Jemisin has an introduction to the list with “The Timeless Power Of Fantasy.” Rebecca, based on the book by Daphne du Maurier, and The Witches, based on the book by Roald Dahl, lead a host of new adaptations for the week. The November LibraryReads and Indie Next picks are announced.

The Goldsmiths Prize, the TS Eliot Prize, and the Baillie Gifford Prize all announce their shortlists. The winners of the first Disability Futures initiative are also announced. Rick Riordan, Elin Hilderbrand, Rumaan Alam, V.E. Schwab, Tana French, and Alice Hoffman make the bestseller lists. B&N has been hacked. There is plenty of forthcoming book and adaptation news including that Stacey Abrams has a political thriller due out in May and Ava DuVernay is adapting Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

More lists arrive for Crime, SFF, and Audio, plus genre guides addressing Cyberpunk and Western Gothics. The Brave New Words award and the Dos Passos Prize are announced. A new Stan Lee superhero is on the way. The Justice Department sues author Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. Bryan Washington’s Memorial is headed to TV.