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We are currently preparing for the 2025 Tournament of Books.

While we’re working in the background, you can relive this year’s Tournament of Books and Camp ToB—and we’ll see you in mid-November with the 2025 Tournament of Books long list!

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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.

Wall of Champions

  • 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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2024
ROOSTER
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