Book Madness 2016 - 1st round matchups
NY PUBLIC LIBRARY
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie vs Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood vs The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes vs 2666 by Roberto Bolano
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon vs Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins vs The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr vs Room by Emma Donoghue
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan vs Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante vs Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
ROYAL LIBRARY
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer vs Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen vs American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Looking for Alaska by John Green vs Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen vs The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach vs The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst vs The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro vs A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson vs The Known World by Edward P Jones
BRITISH LIBRARY
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss vs The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri vs The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem vs Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel vs Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin vs Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Road by Cormac McCarthy vs Atonement by Ian McEwan
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell vs 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger vs Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Ofill vs Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl vs Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss vs Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
Empire Falls by Richard Russo vs Austerlitz by WG Sebald
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold vs The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
NW by Zadie Smith vs The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt vs Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon vs The Book Thief by Markus Zusak