Book Madness Update: What titles, characters will make our Sweet 16?

I didn't fill out a NCAA basketball bracket this year and that's a good thing because it would be busted by now. My Book Madness bracket, however, still has a chance.

Below are the titles in our Second Round. You have until the Library closes on Wednesday to vote for the titles, characters you want to see advance to the Sweet Sixteen. We will reveal the updated bracket Thursday morning.

If you would like a list of every title in this year's Book Madness competition, click here.

Book Madness 2015: Adults and Teens

HUMOR ME

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• How to Tell If Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You by The Oatmeal

• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman

• One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• I Drink for a Reason by David Cross

BOOKS THAT BLOW YOUR MIND

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• House Rules by Jodi Picoult

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

BIG BOOKS WORTH THE EFFORT

• 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

IOWA WRITERS

• A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

• Lila by Marilynne Robinson
• Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron

• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
• On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves

• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? By Peter Hedges
• The Magic Thief series by Sarah Prineas

Book Madness 2015: Children’s

BELOVED CHARACTERS

• Olivia
• Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Winnie the Pooh
• Percy Jackson

• Pete the Cat
• Curious George

• Little Critter
• The Pigeon

BOOKS THAT GOT YOU HOOKED ON READING

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
• A Bargain for Frances by Lillian and Russell Hoban

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

BEST SERIES

• Lunch Lady
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid

• Magic Tree House
• Little House on the Prairie

• Amulet
• Babymouse

• Rainbow Magic Fairies
• Elephant and Piggie

WORDLESS PICTURE BOOKS

• Journey by Aaron Becker
• The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

• Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle
• A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog by Mercer Mayer

• Owly by Andy Runton
• The Umbrella by Ingrid and Dieter Schubert

• Chalk by Bill Thomson
• Fox’s Garden by Princesse Camcam