The great American novelist tournament
Who is the greatest American novelist? 8: Sinclair Lewis v Wallace Stegner
Who is the best American novelist: 7. Willa Cather v F Scott Fitzgerald
You nominated the contenders – now reader Matthew Spencer pits Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop against Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned
Who is the greatest American novelist? 6: Thomas Pynchon v Carson McCullers
You nominated the contenders – now reader Matthew Spencer pits Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 against McCullers' The Member of the Wedding
Who is the greatest American novelist? 5: Philip Roth v Richard Ford
You nominated the contenders – now reader Matthew Spencer pits Roth's The Human Stain against Ford's Independence Day
Who is the greatest American novelist? 4: Toni Morrison v William Styron
You nominated the contenders – now reader Matthew Spencer pits Morrison's The Bluest Eye against Styron's Set This House on Fire
Who is the greatest American novelist? 3: Cormac McCarthy v John Fante
You nominated the contenders – now reader Matthew Spencer pits McCarthy's The Road against Fante's Wait Until Spring, Bandini
Who is the greatest American novelist? 2: Vladimir Nabokov v Kurt Vonnegut
Who is the greatest American novelist? 1: Saul Bellow v Raymond Chandler
The Great American Novelist tournament: opening matches
Faulkner squares up to Gaddis, and DeLillo dukes it out with Dos Passos in the first bouts of our big books beasts' knockout
The Great American Novelist tournament: the final 32
The original list was debated, dissected and reassembled several times over. Here, at last, is the final list of 32 competitors for the title of Great American Novelist
The Great American Novel tournament
Welcome to the literary tournament which pitches author against author, book against book and leaves just one title to be crowned the Great American Novel
Tips, links and suggestions: What you are reading, today?
Your space to talk about the books and authors you are reading. This week Murakami and Žižek are discussed, plus the Great American Novel contest continues
