The Tournament of Books released its longlist — 62 books (!). They will narrow it down to 16 in January. In case you can’t wait until January, here are the 16 I would love to see compete come March. You can view this either as a prediction or as a recommendation — take your pick.
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
- Friendship by Emily Gould
- My Struggle: Book Three by Karl Ove Knausgård
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
- Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
- Redeployment by Phil Klay
- 10:04 by Ben Lerner
- Lila by Marilynne Robinson
- The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
- An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
- Euphoria by Lily King
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
