Every March, literary bloodsport reigns supreme
Since 2005, the Tournament of Books has been home to a month-long battle royale among the year’s best novels. Each weekday in March, two works of fiction go head to head, with one of our judges deciding which book moves forward in the competition—until one finally wins that year’s coveted Rooster award.
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2024
Blackouts by Justin Torres
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2023
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
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2022
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
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2021
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
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2020
Normal People by Sally Rooney
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2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
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2018
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
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2017
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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2016
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
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2015
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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2014
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
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2013
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
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2012
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
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2011
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
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2010
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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2009
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
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2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
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2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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2006
The Accidental by Ali Smith
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2005
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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