March: Time to fill out your brackets and trash-talk with co-workers. TIme to squish a you-shaped imprint in your side of the couch. Time to practice the rhythm of team cheer and the nimble acrobatics of creative insult. Time to wear that sweatband at the breakfast table. That's because it is time, once again, for The Tournament of Books! (What? Is there some other nation-wide competition in March?)

For those of you who don't know, tomorrow begins the 8th Annual TMN Tournament of Books, a fight to the death between 16 of the year's best and brightest novels, as decided by a panel of fiction's best and brightest reviewers.

You can follow the tournament HERE

You can (and should) print your own bracket HERE

And these are your champions:

Nathacha Appanah - The Last Brother
Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending
Teju Cole - Open City
Helen DeWitt - Lightning Rods
Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers
Jeffrey Eugenides - The Marriage Plot
Chad Harbach - The Art of Fielding
Alan Hollinghurst - Stranger’s Child
Jesmyn Ward - Salvage the Bones
Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
Téa Obreht - The Tiger’s Wife
Michael Ondaatje - The Cat’s Table
Ann Patchett - State of Wonder
Donald Ray Pollock - Devil All the Time
Karen Russell - Swamplandia
Kate Zambreno - Green Girl

 All of these titles are available for purchase online through DIESEL or in any of our three locations! We'll be reporting on the tournament all month and would love to hear your thoughts on our Facebook page.