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Now live: The 2025 Shortlist

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
ROOSTER
GEAR

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