The What I’ve Been Reading Tournament of Books Bracket

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ROUND ONE
Bracket One:

Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
vs.
Moneyball - Michael Lewis

Housekeeping - Marilynn Robinson
vs.
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
vs.
Paper Trails - Pete Dexter

White Teeth - Zadie Smith
vs.
Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware

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Bracket Two:

Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
vs.
The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
vs.
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupéry

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
vs.
Other Electricities - Ander Monson

Feet on the Street: Ramblings Around New Orleans - Roy Blount Jr.
vs.
The Final Solution - Michael Chabon

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Bracket Three:

Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
vs.
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Gilead - Marilynn Robinson
vs.
Rabbit Angstrom - John Updike

You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers
vs.
Beowulf - Seamus Heaney

The Road - Cormac McCarthy
vs.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl

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Bracket Four:

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
vs.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
vs.
Atonement - Ian McEwan

Mirror of Ink - Jorge Luis Borge
vs.
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell

Deliver Me from Nowhere - Tennessee Jones
vs.
Like Life - Lorrie Moore

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ROUND TWO - SWEET SIXTEEN
Bracket One:

Moneyball - Michael Lewis
vs.
Housekeeping - Marilynn Robinson

Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
vs.
Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware

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Bracket Two:

The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
vs.
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupéry

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
vs.
Feet on the Street: Ramblings Around New Orleans - Roy Blount Jr.

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Bracket Three:

Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
vs.
Rabbit Angstrom - John Updike

You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers
vs.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

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Bracket Four:

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
vs.
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris

Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
vs.
Like Life - Lorrie Moore

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ROUND THREE - ELITE EIGHT
Bracket One:

Housekeeping - Marilynn Robinson
vs.
Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware

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Bracket Two:

The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
vs.
East of Eden - John Steinbeck

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Bracket Three:

Rabbit Angstrom - John Updike
vs.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

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Bracket Four:

Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
vs.
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
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ROUND FOUR - THE FINAL FOUR

Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware
vs.
East of Eden - John Steinbeck

Rabbit Angstrom - John Updike
vs.
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris

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ROUND FOUR - FINALS

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
vs.
Rabbit Angstrom - John Updike

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THE CHAMPION
East of Eden - John Steinbeck