The 2010
Tournament of Books
Has Ended

Post-Game Wrapup & Open Commentary

After five weeks of literary blood sport, 17 esteemed judges, and one unprecedented tiebreaker, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall has been crowned champion and the 2010 Tournament of Books has ended.

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If you missed any part of this battle royale, or you want to relive the action, download the brackets and check out the play-by-play links to the right.

If you have a book suggestion for the 2011 Tournament of Books, let us know in the comments section below. Suggestions should be limited to books of fiction (preferably novels) published in English in 2010.

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The Tournament of Books Staff

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The Morning News Tournament of Books

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View the 2010 Brackets

1Let the Great World Spin Rosecrans Baldwin 4Miles From Nowhere

1Let the Great World Spin Alex Balk 2The Help

3Lowboy Andrew Womack 2The Help

1The Lacuna Alexander Chee 4Fever Chart

1The Lacuna Jane Ciabattari 3Burnt Shadows

3Burnt Shadows Nic Brown 2That Old Cape Magic

1Let the Great World Spin Jason Kottke 1The Lacuna

Z1Miles From Nowhere Sam Anderson 1The Lacuna

1The Lacuna 1Wolf Hall All Judges + Jessica Francis Kane

Z2Fever Chart Julie Powell 1Wolf Hall

1Wolf Hall Andrew W.K. 4The Book of Night Women

1Wolf Hall Meave Gallagher 2The Anthologist

1Wolf Hall David Gutowski 4Logicomix

3Everything Ravaged... Molly Young 2The Anthologist

1A Gate at the Stairs C. Max Magee 4The Book of Night Women

4The Book of Night Women Carolyn Kellogg 3Big Machine

3Big Machine Kate Ortega 2The Year of the Flood
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Meet Our Judges Panel
- Opening Round Judges
  
  Rosecrans Baldwin is a founding editor of TMN. His first novel, You Lost Me There, will be published in August 2010 by Riverhead Books.
  
  Andrew Womack is a founding editor of TMN.
  
  Alexander Chee is the author of Edinburgh. He is the Visiting Writer at Amherst College.
  
  Nic Brown’s short story collection, Floodmarkers, was published in 2009 and selected as an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review. His first novel, Doubles, will be published in July 2010.
- David Gutowski runs the music and culture blog Largehearted Boy.
  
  Molly Young is a blogger and a contributor to n+1.
  
  C. Max Magee created and edits The Millions. He has appeared on N.P.R.’s Weekend Edition and Minnesota Public Radio’s Midmorning.
  
  TMN managing editor Kate Ortega is an editor at the online edition of the Wall Street Journal.
- Quarterfinals Judges
  
  Alex Balk is a co-founder of The Awl.
  
  Jane Ciabattari is president of the National Book Critics Circle, a founding blogger on Critical Mass, and author of the short-story collection Stealing the Fire.
  
  Meave Gallagher is a contributing editor at TMN and a founding editor of Vegansaurus.
  
  Carolyn Kellogg is a critic and blogger for the Los Angeles Times.
  
  Semifinals Judges
  
  Jason Kottke blogs at kottke.org.
  
  Andrew W.K. is a musician, motivational speaker, and party maker.
- Zombie Round Judges
  
  Sam Anderson is a book critic at New York magazine.
  
  Julie Powell is the author of Julie & Julia and Cleaving.
  
  Championship
  
  Jessica Francis Kane is a contributing writer for TMN. Her first novel, The Report, will be published in September 2010 by Graywolf.
  
  Commentators
  
  Kevin Guilfoile is a contributing writer for TMN. His second novel, The Thousand, will be published in August 2010 by Alfred A. Knopf.
  
  John Warner is a contributing writer for TMN. He is the author of Fondling Your Muse: Infallible Advice From a Published Author to the Writerly Aspirant.
Browse This Year’s Books
- 2The Year of the Flood
  by Margaret Atwood
  
  Nan A. Talese
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- 4The Book of Night Women
  by Marlon James
  
  Riverhead
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- 1Wolf Hall
  by Hilary Mantel
  
  Henry Holt
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- 3Burnt Shadows
  by Kamila Shamsie
  
  Picador
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- 2The Anthologist
  by Nicholson Baker
  
  Simon & Schuster
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- 1The Lacuna
  by Barbara Kingsolver
  
  Harper
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- 1A Gate at the Stairs
  by Lorrie Moore
  
  Knopf
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- 2The Help
  by Kathryn Stockett
  
  Putnam
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- 4Fever Chart
  by Bill Cotter
  
  McSweeney’s Books
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- 3Big Machine
  by Victor LaValle
  
  Spiegel & Grau
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- 4Miles From Nowhere
  by Nami Mun
  
  Riverhead
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- 3Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
  by Wells Tower
  
  Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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- 4Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
  by Apostolos Doxiadis
  
  Bloomsbury
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- 1Let the Great World Spin
  by Colum McCann
  
  Random House
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- 2That Old Cape Magic
  by Richard Russo
  
  Knopf
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- 3Lowboy
  by John Wray
  
  Picador
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