The What I’ve Been Reading Tournament of Books Bracket


The What I’ve Been Reading Tournament of Books

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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