Tournament of Books discussion

There are 76 books on the longlist this year. Follow the link to the official TMN announcement: https://themorningnews.org/article/th....

Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
The Caregiver by Samuel Park
Census by Jesse Ball
Cherry by Nico Walker
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Desert and Its Seed by Jorge Barón Biza
The Dictionary of Animal Languages by Heidi Sopinka
Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Florida by Lauren Groff
French Exit by Patrick deWitt
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
Go: A Coming of Age Novel by Kazuki Kaneshiro
The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
How to Be Safe by Tom McAllister
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
Insurrecto by Gina Apostol
The Italian TeacherTom Rachman
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
Laura & Emma by Kate Greathead
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Milkman by Anna Burns
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Ohio by Stephen Markley
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat
The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon
Severance by Ling Ma
The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
Small Country by Gaël Faye
So Lucky by Nicola Griffith
Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen DeWitt
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
Stray City by Chelsey Johnson
Sugar Land by Tammy Lynne Stoner
Sunburn by Laura Lippman
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
There There by Tommy Orange
The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Winter by Ali Smith
The Witch Elm by Tana French

Ha ha ha! I saw this thread, and was thinking, “Yes! It’s here!”

I'm jealous of all the people off work, but I think I've got the next best thing...my students will be in the computer lab working on a paper, which means their teacher can obsessively reload this site and the morning news site waiting for the list all damn day (in between helping my students, of course)

Ah if only people knew what lurks in the hearts of academics...lol.

Janet wrote: "Ah if only people knew what lurks in the hearts of academics...lol."

Just read The Secret History. ;)

I am going to work late tomorrow because I'm working late so I'm hoping they at least post it before I go in. They are often behind me in time zones though. Do we know the TIME?

I think Heather posted the longlist at 0740am on the 20th of November last time.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I think this will be the new URL: https://themorningnews.org/article/th...
(https :// themorningnews .org/article/the-year-in-fiction-2018)

(Yes I tried it, its not up yet. I will be refreshing...)

Ace wrote: "I think Heather posted the longlist at 0740am on the 20th of November last time.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I think this will be the new U..."

Smartie.

I would like to thank the Rooster in advance for completely screwing up my virtuous reading plan to jump off the newest fiction train and read older books already on my real and virtual shelves.

To paraphrase a famous cowboy, ' 'Damn you Rooster, I can't quit you."

I love the obsessive nature of this group!

Nadine wrote: "I would like to thank the Rooster in advance for completely screwing up my virtuous reading plan to jump off the newest fiction train and read older books already on my real and virtual shelves.

T..."

This happens to me every year!

Ace wrote: "I think this will be the new URL...
(Yes I tried it, its not up yet. I will be refreshing...)"

Ace, you win "most eager for the longlist" this year! Seriously, predicting the url? LOL! If you get the link before me, please share it in this thread. I'll post the list with GR links at the top of the thread ASAP.

I’m looking forward to my husband’s incredulous looks when I check 30books out of the library at once!

Amy wrote: "I’m looking forward to my husband’s incredulous looks when I check 30books out of the library at once!"

<3

Tina wrote: "Ace wrote: "I think this will be the new URL...
(Yes I tried it, its not up yet. I will be refreshing...)"

Ace, you win "most eager for the longlist" this year! Seriously, predicting the url? LOL!..."

Will do Tina.

Amy, you can borrow his card and get 60 books!

V. excited about the longlist. Also looking forward to thanking whoever made that Google sheet checklist with the no. of pages in each book to help me pluck the low-reading fruit.

Well???

Janet wrote: "Well???"

Nothing yet Janet:(

:-(

Janet wrote: ":-("

What time is it where you are? It's 2pm here and I'm getting RSI already...

Today is the Annual Realization that The Morning News has Other Articles Day.

Tick...tick...tick...tick...tick...

Wait. What? The Morning News has OTHER ARTICLES?

7:30am and I need something to read...lol.

I have pulled out my TOB mug and drinking some tea as I wait for the longlist. :)

Janet wrote: "7:30am and I need something to read...lol."

Apparently there are articles on the The Morning News... enjoy lol.

9:40 and if I don't obsessively watch for the longlist, I have to do some work. Please save me, ToB gods.

Grading papers and listening to The House of Broken Angels while waiting for the longlist. Thought I would be able to distract myself. But no still incessantly checking.

Agony! Okay, last-minute wagers: one book you're sure will be on the list (that wasn't in the summer tournament, ya cheaters).

I'm saying The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.

Nadine wrote: "I would like to thank the Rooster in advance for completely screwing up my virtuous reading plan to jump off the newest fiction train and read older books already on my real and virtual shelves.

T..."

Time for my yearly "Finally finished with the NBA lists, and I can get to my TBR--JK IT'S TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS TIME!" feels.

I asked when it would be posted on their facebook page, and nine minutes ago received the reply "Moments away!". It's all happening!

Kristin-Leigh wrote: "Agony! Okay, last-minute wagers: one book you're sure will be on the list (that wasn't in the summer tournament, ya cheaters).

I'm saying The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock."

There There by Tommy Orange

I'm hoping that the Booker winner Milkman makes it. Not an easy read, but a genuinely satisfying one. Plus it was funnier than The Sellout AND Lincoln in the Bardo.

Transcription.

who thinks this long list will be even longer than last year

or will they pare it down to something reasonable

Moments!

I think it will be shorter.

Hoping for shorter.

Last year was much shorter than the year before, and I think it will be shorter still this year. I'm hoping for no more than 40 books.

From your keyboard to the ToB gods' ears, Tina.

I kind of liked the all-inclusive, every-book-you-may-not-know-about approach of 2 years ago. It led me to Wolfgang Hilbig, for instance.

Kristin-Leigh wrote: "Agony! Okay, last-minute wagers: one book you're sure will be on the list..."

Everything Here Is Beautiful

I'd like to see a shorter official Longlist and then a list of books that almost made the Longlist.

For selfish reasons, I hope A Ladder to the Sky is on the list because I bought it and I don't want to have to put it aside for longlist books.

But of the books I've read, I'm expecting The Italian Teacher.

https://themorningnews.org/article/th...

I'm hoping for Red Clocks! Even though not my favorite read of the year it is a great discussion book.

Tiffany, I love that idea of having a list of "almost made the long list" books!

76 is the magic number.

76 books!

Hoping for no more than 50 books.

Ace wrote: "https://themorningnews.org/article/th..."

YIPPEE!! Away we go...
I'll start working on the list with GR links.

No Smoke City or Where the Dead Sit Talking. Surprising considering the discussion over on the other thread. (or Ladder to the Sky) :(

Yay! The Witch Elm!