Mako Prize Round of 16

​This week marked the end of the Group Stage for the inaugural Mako Prize. The initial field of thirty-two titles has been halved, and the remaining sixteen are now set in a knock-out bracket. The Round of 16 starts this week and runs for three weeks. Please feel free to read along and make your own choices and predictions.





The matchups in the Round of Sixteen:

Faithful (Alice Hoffman) vs. The Nix (Nathan Hill)
A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles) vs. Moonglow (Michael Chabon)
The Wonder (Emma Donoghue) vs. A Piece of the World (Christina Baker Kline)
The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead) vs. 4 3 2 1 (Paul Auster)
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Lisa See) vs. Borne (Jeff VanderMeer)
Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders) vs. News of the World (Paulette Jiles)
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley (Hannah Tinti) vs. Another Brooklyn (Jacqueline Woodson)
Here I Am (Jonathan Safran Foer) vs. The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry)

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