134: #ToB20 Wrap-Up Zoom Chat!

In This Episode:

A Quarantine Special: the guys joined friend of the show Nozlee Samadzadeh for a post-game #ToB20 Zoom wrap-up call, and now you can listen too! Plus, some voices of the commentariat!

The Ep. 134 Bookshelf

THE 2020 TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS SHORTLIST:

All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Overthrow by Caleb Crain
Saudade by Suneeta Peres da Costa
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer
Normal People by Sally Rooney <—- THIS YEAR’S WINNER!
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Oval by Elvia Wilk
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Golden State by Ben H. Winters
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

ALSO MENTIONED:

Guy Davenport’s nonfiction
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey
New Waves by Kevin Nguyen

The SuperRooster Zombies (or, the runners-up from the first 16 ToBs):

Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Open City by Teju Cole
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
Absurdistan by Gary Shtyengart
Home Land by Sam Lipsyte
The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth