Description excerpted from the website:
"Today we're releasing the long list for the 2021 Tournament of Books, our 17th rendition of this oddball event, presented by Field Notes."
What is this list? Several dozen titles that we feel represent some of the most exciting, interesting, accomplished, simply tantalizing works of fiction (published in 2020 in English in the US, mostly) that we discovered during lockdown. They were recommended by coworkers, family, publishing people, and the Super Rooster's comments section. They were recommended by booksellers in two different neighborhoods of Los Angeles (Hollywood and Leimert Park) and a bookseller in Mississippi. They were recommended by commenters on social media, friends of friends, a woman in London insisting we absolutely had to read this. And yeah, very likely we missed your favorite book from this year—sorry! Next year, we'll do better, surely."'
