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Cannonball Read: Official MVP

WINNER: Jasper Fforde (six books)

The Eyre Affair
Lost in a Good Book
The Well of Lost Plots
Something Rotten
First Among Sequels

Shades of Grey

Cannonball Read: Best Cover Art

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WINNER: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (Lydia Millet)

Cannonball Read: Most Emotionally Devastating

WINNER: We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver)

I didn’t even need to compile a list.
 

Cannonball Read: Most Effective Formatting

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon)
Icelander (Dustin Long)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry (Leanne Shapton)
Rules for My Unborn Son (Walker Lamond)

WINNER: House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
RUNNER-UP: Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry (Leanne Shapton)

Cannonball Read: Goddamned Creepiest

House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
Lunar Park (Bret Easton Ellis)
The Ruins (Scott Smith)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

WINNER: Lunar Park (Bret Easton Ellis)

Cannonball Read: Quirkiest Fiction

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon)
The Cheese Monkeys (Chip Kidd)
Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry (Leanne Shapton)
Madeleine is Sleeping (Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum)
Rules for My Unborn Son (Walker Lamond)
For Those Whom God Has Blessed With Fingers (Ken Sparling)

WINNER: Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry (Leanne Shapton)
RUNNER-UP: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon)

Cannonball Read: Book I Most Disliked

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
Blindness (Jose Saramago)
Tell-All (Chuck Palahniuk)

WINNER: The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)

Cannonball Read: Best Science Fiction

Category One: Space-based.
(ex// an alternate universe directly involving space or space travel)

The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell)
The Gods Themselves (Isaac Asimov)

WINNER: The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell)

Category Two: Not space-based.
(ex// an alternate universe not directly involving space or space travel)

Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
1984 (George Orwell)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

WINNER: The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

OVERALL WINNER: The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell)

Cannonball Read: Best Zombie

Cell (Stephen King)
World War Z (Max Brooks)
The Zombie Survival Guide (Max Brooks)
Monster Island (David Wellington)
Monster Nation (David Wellington)

WINNER: World War Z (Max Brooks)

(Only in my Cannonball would this be a category.)

Cannonball Read: Best Short Story Anthology

Bradbury: Stories (Ray Bradbury)
My Custom Van … And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face (Michael Ian Black)
My Horizontal Life (Chelsea Handler)
It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It (Robert Fulghum)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
Shakespeare Wrote For Money (Nick Hornby)
How It Ended (Jay McInerney)
What the Dog Saw (Malcolm Gladwell)
Topics About Which I Know Nothing (Patrick Ness)

WINNER: Shakespeare Wrote for Money (Nick Hornby)
RUNNERS-UP: How It Ended (Jay McInerney), Topics About Which I Know Nothing (Patrick Ness)