I have a simple queryset resulting from this: Books.objects.all() Books is related to Authors like this: Class Books: ... author = models.ForeignKey(Authors, on_delete=models.CASCADE) Class Authors: id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True) name = models.CharField() So for each book there's only one author. I want to add to each instance of the Books queryset the related Author 's name, as in this query: SELECT a.*, b.name FROM Books as a JOIN Authors as b on a.author_id = b.id I tried to read the documentation on Annonate or the selected_related method but didn't find a solution. Continue reading...