146: The Morning News' SUPER ROOSTER

In This Episode:

This March was the SIXTEENTH Tournament of Books, which means it is time for a Tournament of Champions… a Super Rooster, if you will.

The guys predict and prognosticate. Drew might have a scoop. Christopher just won't read Wolf Hall. Listen and let us know your predictions!

The Ep. 146 Bookshelf

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: The Great Offshore Grounds by Vanessa Veselka // Daughters of the Wild by Natalka Burian // Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Christopher: Memorial by Bryan Washington // Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon // The Talented Miss Farwell by Emily Gray Tedrowe

THE SUPER ROOSTER CONTENDERS:

Normal People by Sally Rooney
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Accidental by Ali Smith
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

THE SUPER ROOSTER ZOMBIES:

Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza, trans. by Thomas Bunstead
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

ALSO MENTIONED:

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Temporary by Hilary Leichter
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Seasonal Quartet by Ali Smith
Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce
Cloud Atlas (2012, written and directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer)
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Christopher: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Drew: The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford // Blaseball