TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS SHORTLIST
http://www.themorningnews.org/article/announcing-the-morning-news-2015-tournament-of-booksSo far I have read the ones that show a rating ... so I have a few to go before March kickoff
A very "meh" reaction. Many that weren't my CoT (Cup of Tea), some that were ok but not terrific, some that I enjoyed but doubt they will linger in the Good Read file of my brain, some grew in my memory after I finished and some that diminished.
- Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball ***
- A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall by Will Chancellor *
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr **
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante -
- An Untamed State by Roxane Gay ****
- Wittgenstein Jr by Lars Iyer
- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James x-
- Redeployment by Phil Klay ****
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel *****
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell ***
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng **
- Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill **
- Adam by Ariel Schrag
- The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters x-
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer x
- All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld **
