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March Madness Reading Challenge: Last chance!

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Last chance to join our reading challenge where books will be paired with basketball teams and participants can earn points for predictions and reading. The winner will get a $100 book depository gift card and a box of bookish goodies for a total prize worth approximately $200.

You have 2 hours to sign up and complete a bracket. The full instructions are on our challenge page. You will need to fill out your CBS bracket for our pool before noon EDT. Here are the books/teams that will be playing today:

Princeton (The Sun is Also a Star) vs. Notre Dame (Another Brooklyn)
UNC-Wilm (The Return) vs. UVA (News of the World)
Winthrop (Take it as  Compliment) vs Butler The Mothers
SD st (The Red Queen) vs. Gonzaga (Hidden Figures)
Bucknell (The Undoing Project) vs. WVU (The Fishermen)
ETSU (The Regional Office is Under Attack) vs. Florida (Lab Girl)
MTSU (Black Wave) vs. Minnesota (The Refugees)
Vanderbilt (The Girls) vs. NW (Underground Airlines)
Xavier (Here comes the Sun) vs. Maryland (The Small Backs of Children)
MSM (My Best Friend’s Exorcism) vs. Villanova (Born a Crime)
VCU (My Name is Leon) vs. St Mary’s (Grief is the Thing with Feathers)
UVM (Sudden Death)  vs. Purdue (To the Bright Edge of the World)
FGCU (Sweetbitter) vs. Florida State (Lilac Girls)
Virginia Tech. (Atomic Weight of Love) vs. Wisconsin (The Fireman)
UND (First Love) vs. Arizona (Between the World and Me)
Nevada (Stamped from the Beginning) vs. Iowa State (The Essex Serpent

Participants: You may start your reading today! When you have finished a book post the link to your review in the comments section of the challenge page or if you are on Litsy, post your review with #marchmadness and tag me (JenP) Good luck all.