Joe's Bowl Schedule

Seriously, if you're going to rank your books according to the college football bowl system, shouldn't you put them in bowls? I guess I got to do everything.  Here we go.  First the "BCS bowls", involving all "eligible" conference champions.

National Championship

War And Peace (Tolstoy) vs. Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)

Sugar Bowl

Downtown Owl (Klosterman) vs. Suite Francaise (Nemirovsky)

Fiesta Bowl

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Wallace) vs. Them (Ronson)

Rose Bowl

Moonwalking With Einstein (Foer) vs. Homicide (Simon)

Orange Bowl

Endgame (Brady) vs. In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks (Carolla)

Now, the New Year's Bowls...not Champions, but still good books going at each other.

Cotton Bowl

The Visible Man (Klosterman) vs. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Wallace)

Florida Citrus Bowl

The Psychopath Test (Ronson) vs. Willpower: Rediscovering The Greatest Human Strength (Baumiester and Tierney)

Outback Bowl

The Men Who Stare At Goats (Ronson) vs. A Visit From The Goon Squad (Egan)

Holiday Bowl

The Corner (Simon) vs. The Optimism Bias (Sharot)

Peach Bowl

The Advance Genius Theory (Hartley) vs. Bossypants (Fey)

Gator Bowl

The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot) vs. Motherless Brooklyn (Lethem)

And the rest of the bowls....including the ineligible conferences that can't make the big games (BULLSHIT!)

Liberty Bowl

The Hobbit (Tolkien) vs. The War For Late Night (Carter)

Copper Bowl

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Fischer) vs. Tinkers (Harding)

Tangerine Bowl

In The Garden Of Beasts (Larsen) vs. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)

Sun Bowl

ESPN: These guys have all the fun (Shales and Miller) vs. ScoreCasting (Wertheim and Moskowitz)

Independence Bowl

The Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin) vs. When You Are Engulfed By Flames (Sedaris)

Hawai'i Bowl

Out of Character (DeSteno and Valdesolo) vs. Love Is a Mixtape (Sheffield)

Music City Bowl

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) vs. I Served The King of England (Hrabel)

Las Vegas Bowl

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Bailey) vs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling)

New Mexico Bowl

The Age of American Unreason (Jacoby) vs. Unlikely Disciple (Roose)