2013 Tournament of Books: Finalists and Judges Announced!

It's here! It's here! Well, ok, it's actually four months away, but this year, the Tournament of Books announced the finalists early to give us all a chance to catch up on some great reads we may have missed in 2012. I definitely missed a lot of them, sad to say, so I have my reading cut out for me...

• HHhH by Laurent Binet
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Arcadia by Lauren Groff
• How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
• May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
• The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
• Ivyland by Miles Klee
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Dear Life by Alice Munro
• Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
• Building Stories by Chris Ware

PLUS: A Pre-Tournament Playoff Round

• Fobbit by David Abrams
• Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

Of these, I've read Gone Girl, and I own The Yellow Birds. I've never heard of HHhH, How Should a Person Be? or Ivyland. The only one I'm not particularly interested in picking up is May We Be Forgiven, but that's mostly just because I heard some booksellers at a store I love and respect discussing it and it did not sound promising, so maybe I need to keep a more open mind, yes?