Footnotes, October 2020: Book links from around the web

At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye.

Here it is! The American Library Association’s Top 100 Banned and Challenged Books of the Decade. Fascinating list / that makes you wish / boors didn’t exist.
Support Afro Surf, the “first book to extensively document African surfers and their culture”. No brainer.
Forrest Fenn has died. His authorial life was damned fascinating. Who knows if the treasure he buried in the mountains was in fact ever found, as he claimed. Who knows?
Right, so George RR Martin wanted to build a castle on his property to house his library. The town where he lives, Santa Fe, New Mexico, shut that down real quick.
Publishers are being subpoenaed in the US for publishing books critical of Trump. But that isn’t stopping them.
Meanwhile, a couple of people are contemplating how to rebuild after the current US president has left the White House.
Editing the Notorious RBG would be a helluva thing, wouldn’t it?
Will Self’s new drug memoir reviewed!
Over at the Sydney Review of Books, James Jiang remembers Eileen Chang, who would have been 100 this September.