I came across this and thought of you all:)

[norton94]

Did you know there is a tournament of books with a bracket like March Madness?! It's called "The Morning News Tournament of Books presented by Field Notes" in case you want to seek it out.
These are the books they had listed...in case you are interested

• Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother
• Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
• Teju Cole, Open City
• Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods
• Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
• Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
• Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
• Alan Hollinghurst, Stranger’s Child
• Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
• Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
• Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife
• Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table
• Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
• Donald Ray Pollock, Devil All the Time
• Karen Russell, Swamplandia
• Kate Zambreno, Green Girl

 

[tanbanan]

interesting. .. . i'm going to check out these links! thanks

 

[scrapsandsass]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

Hahaha... after seeing your post, I ended up getting an email about it. They even have a bracket you can download.

 

[HeatherB]

Thanks Krista, I'll go check those out!

 

[tanbanan]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

Hahaha... after seeing your post, I ended up getting an email about it. They even have a bracket you can download.

So, do you actually put in the name of the book that you feel was better than the other. . . and they "advance" to the next round?!

 

[crystalbella77]

That is very very interesting! Can someone message me a link pretty please?! Some of these books I have on my list already!