The Tournament of Books is back for its fifth year. The Morning News, which runs the contest, describes the event:[T]ake 16 of the most celebrated and highly touted novels of the year, seed them in a March Madness-type bracket, conscript them into a “Battle Royale of Literary Excellence,” and, in honor of David Sedaris’s brother, present the author of the winning book a live rooster.
This year's contenders have been announced, and it's a good list. Once again, Powell's is offering a 30% discount on all the titles. The tournament starts in March, and here are the sixteen contenders:
- The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
- 2666, Roberto Bolano
- A Partisan's Daughter, Louis de Bernieres
- The Northern Clemency, Philip Hensher
- The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon
- My Revolutions, Hari Kunzru
- Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
- Shadow Country, Peter Matthiessen
- The Dart League King, Keith Lee Morris
- A Mercy, Toni Morrison
- Steer Towards Rock, Fae Myenne Ng
- Netherland, Joseph O'Neill
- City of Refuge, Tom Piazza
- Home, Marilynne Robinson
- Harry, Revised, Mark Sarvas
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I'm excited by this news, and wrote a quick post about it on my site. I'm going to try to read as many of the books as I can get my hands on through the various libraries available to me (buying 16 books simply to follow a book competition seems a bit steep to me!), and hope to be able to read them in time for the tournament in March. I don't always agree with the final winner or the outcome of certain matches, but this time I can be as informed as possible!
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