The What I’ve Been Reading Tournament of Books Bracket

The What I’ve Been Reading Tournament of Books

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Bracket Three:

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

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

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

ROUND THREE – ELITE EIGHT

Bracket One:

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

Bracket Two:

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

Bracket Three:

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

Bracket Four:

Then We Came to the End – Joshua Ferris
vs.
Black Swan Green – David Mitchell

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

ROUND FIVE – FINALS

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

THE CHAMPION

East of Eden – John Steinbeck