Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Tournament of Books 2013

My progress on attempting to read all the 2013 ToB contenders  before March 1, 2013.


I stumbled on the Tournament of Books in 2012 through a post on Citizen Reader's blog. All but four of the books were available from my local library, which was helpful. I couldn't have managed it otherwise! Check out the Morning News site: http://www.themorningnews.org/tob/ for some of the smartest, most honest and funniest commentary on these 16 books published last year. 

  1. HHhH by Laurent Binet (currently reading)
  2. The Round House by Louise Erdrich (checked out from the library)
  3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (read in 2012)
  4. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  5. Arcadia by Lauren Groff
  6. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
  7. May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
  8. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
  9. Ivyland by Miles Klee
  10. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
  11. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller  (read in 2012)
  12. Dear Life by Alice Munro
  13. Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
  14. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
  15. Building Stories by Chris Ware
  16. Billy Flynn’s Half Time Walk by Ben Fountain **
**read after the deadline