Tournament of Books discussion

In this thread, please nominate ONE book from the list below (the ToB long list, not including the short list or summer camp books) that you have read and consider a favorite or five star book. Pro tip: if you have more than one favorite and can’t decide, wait a day or two to see if anyone else nominates one of them! There’s no need to second a nomination - all nominated books will be on the final selection poll. Nominations will close the evening of Monday, March 31.

Please do not nominate more than one book!

Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer
Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler
Blood Test by Charles Baxter
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Brat by Gabriel Smith
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
Godwin by Joseph O'Neil
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
Hard Girls by J. Robert Lennon
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Held by Anne Michaels
Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
The Invisible Hotel by Yeji Y. Ham
Lazarus Man by Richard Price
Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Material by Camille Bordas
Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Model Home by River Solomon
Mood Swings by Frankie Barnet
My Friends by Hisham Matar
Nicked by M. T. Anderson
Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías
Playground by Richard Powers
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Short War by Lily Meyer
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
Wolf at the Table by Adam Rapp
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
Yr Dead by Sam Sax

I nominate I Cheerfully Refuse.

My nomination is My Friends.

I'll nominate The Heart in Winter.

I’ll nominate Cahokia Jazz.

I’ll nominate Mood Swings.

So many good ones already nominated!

I’ll nominate Real Americans.

I nominate In Accession.

In Ascension I mean.

Glorious Exploits

I nominate Playground

Updated through here - we have 9 books nominated so far, bolded in the list up top.

I nominate The Safekeep

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

I nominate Wild Houses.

Updated through here - I am unlikely to check back again until tomorrow night.

Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky

My nomination is Short War by Lily Meyer! <3

I nominate Poor Deer.

Now that I know Poor Deer and The Safekeep are nominated and in the voting, I nominate Held, by Anne Michaels.

Lesser Ruins, Mark Haber

I nominate The Ministry of Time.

Nicked. So funny!

I nominate Hard Girls by J. Robert Lennon.

I think I got everything through here, we are at 19 nominations.

Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman

Is the deadline tonight, or Tuesday night April 1?

I meant for it to be tonight, but got the date wrong. Updated to fix!

I nominate: Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Chrissy wrote: "I meant for it to be tonight, but got the date wrong. If folks need another day, I’m ok going till tomorrow."

Thanks, that’s what I figured, so I didn’t wait to decide.

Everything up to this point has been added to the list - get last minute nominations in by 8 pm PST tonight please!

Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

That’s it, nominations are closed. Tomorrow morning I’ll post the voting polls, which will be open till Sunday night.