Episode Thirty-Three: ToB16 Shortlist Discussion
In This Episode:
The 2016 Tournament of Books is (nearly) upon us - and so the guys do what they do and break down the 17 books on the shortlist. They are VERY EXCITED.
Other highlights:
* We explain the whole bizniss of the Tournament
* We bought more books than we should've
* You should go to egg + BookThugNation
* Get all yer #ToB16 books from Powell's!
LISTEN:
The Ep. 33 Bookshelf
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Christopher: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark // The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark // Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya
Drew: The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth // Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue // The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
THE 2016 TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS SHORTLIST:
The New World by Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil
The Story of My Teeth Valeria Luiselli
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Whites by Richard Price
Oreo by Fran Ross
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
The Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
PLAY-IN ROUND:
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
ALSO MENTIONED:
The Miniature Wife by Manuel Gonzales
I Am Radar by Reif Larsen
The Collected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall by Will Chancellor
The Pickle Index by Eli Horowitz
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ivyland by Miles Klee
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Dear Life by Alice Munro
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
How to Get into the Twin Palms by Karolina Waclawiak
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones
2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Drew: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Christopher: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein