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320 Works 756,404 Books 34,928 Reviews ½ 3.9
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 show more deciding which book moves forward in the competition—until one finally wins that year’s coveted Rooster award. show less
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All, Winner (20), Finalist (40), Zombie Round (72), Semi-Finalist (80), Quarterfinalist (160), Short List (320), Play-In Selection (31), Long List (2)
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Years:
All, 2024 (16), 2023 (16), 2022 (16), 2021 (16), 2020 (16), 2019 (16), 2018 (16), 2017 (16), 2016 (16), 2015 (16), 2014 (16), 2013 (16), 2012 (16), 2011 (16), 2010 (16), 2009 (16), 2008 (16), 2007 (16), 2006 (16), 2005 (16)
Announced:
March 29: Winner2024 Recent

Short List 320

WorkCategoryYear
Dayswork by Chris BachelderHenhouse2024
The Librarianist by Patrick deWittPlay-In Winner2024
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideZombie Selection2024
Blackouts by Justin Torres2024
The Guest by Emma Cline2024
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova2024
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling2024
Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt2024
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah2024
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama2024
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin2024
Open Throat by Henry Hoke2024
American Mermaid by Julia Langbein2024
Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky2024
The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo2024
Cold People by Tom Rob Smith2024
My Volcano by John Elizabeth StintziPlay-In Winner2023
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. KuangZombie Selection2023
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinZombie Selection2023
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li2023
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel2023
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach2023
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty2023
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley2023
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb2023
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson2023
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin2023
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez2023
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka2023
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra2023
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy2023
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet2023
The Confession of Copeland Cane by Keenan NorrisPlay-In Winner2022
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroZombie Selection2022
Matrix by Lauren GroffZombie Selection2022
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood2022
The Trees by Percival Everett2022
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura2022
Nervous System by Lina Meruane2022
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey2022
In Concrete by Anne Garréta2022
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut2022
All's Well by Mona Awad2022
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge2022
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke2022
Subdivision by J. Robert Lennon2022
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki2022
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney2022
Red Pill by Hari KunzruPlay-In Winner2021
The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettZombie Selection2021
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeZombie Selection2021
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu2021
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami2021
Deacon King Kong by James McBride2021
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam2021
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry2021
Telephone by Percival Everett2021
Memorial by Bryan Washington2021
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica2021
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi2021
Luster by Raven Leilani2021
A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet2021
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart2021
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn2021
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos RuffinPlay-In Winner2020
Normal People by Sally RooneyZombie Selection2020
Lost Children Archive by Valeria LuiselliZombie Selection2020
Optic Nerve by María Gainza2020
Saudade by Suneeta Peres da Costa2020
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi2020
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner2020
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo2020
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong2020
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg2020
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood2020
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha2020
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates2020
Overthrow: A Novel by Caleb Crain2020
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer2020
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson2020
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine CastilloPlay-In Winner2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteZombie Selection2019
There There by Tommy OrangeZombie Selection2019
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje2019
The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel Kushner2019
The Dictionary of Animal Languages by Heidi Sopinka2019
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea2019
Milkman by Anna Burns2019
The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling2019
The Overstory by Richard Powers2019
Census by Jesse Ball2019
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan2019
So Lucky by Nicola Griffith2019
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman2019
The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat2019
Call Me Zebra by Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi2019
The Idiot by Elif BatumanPlay-In Winner2018
Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersZombie Selection2018
Exit West by Mohsin HamidZombie Selection2018
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin2018
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee2018
Dear Cyborgs: A Novel by Eugene Lim2018
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong2018
The End of Eddy: A Novel by Édouard Louis2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward2018
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan2018
So Much Blue by Percival Everett2018
White Tears by Hari Kunzru2018
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich2018
Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran2018
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker2018
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch2018
Sudden Death by Álvaro EnriguePlay-In Winner2017
The Nix by Nathan HillZombie Selection2017
The Vegetarian by Han KangZombie Selection2017
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead2017
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi2017
Version Control by Dexter Palmer2017
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders2017
The Mothers by Brit Bennett2017
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter2017
Mister Monkey by Francine Prose2017
Moonglow by Michael Chabon2017
We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge2017
High Dive by Jonathan Lee2017
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet2017
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout2017
Black Wave by Michelle Tea2017
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne TylerPlay-In Winner2016
Fates and Furies by Lauren GroffZombie Selection2016
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaZombie Selection2016
The Sellout by Paul Beatty2016
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy2016
Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel by Zachary Thomas Dodson2016
The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories by Anthony Marra2016
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf2016
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen2016
The New World: A Novel by Chris Adrian2016
Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil2016
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli2016
The Whites by Richard Price2016
Oreo by Fran Ross2016
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard2016
The Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak2016
Station Eleven by Emily St. John MandelZombie Selection2015
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrZombie Selection2015
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James2015
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante2015
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters2015
Redeployment by Phil Klay2015
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell2015
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer2015
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball2015
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall: A Novel by Will Chancellor2015
Wittgenstein Jr by Lars Iyer2015
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng2015
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill2015
Adam by Ariel Schrag2015
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld2015
Life After Life by Kate AtkinsonPlay-In Winner, Zombie Selection2014
The Goldfinch by Donna TarttZombie Selection2014
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride2014
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara2014
The Son by Philipp Meyer2014
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki2014
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert2014
Hill William by Scott McClanahan2014
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell2014
At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcón2014
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton2014
The Tuner of Silences by Mia Couto2014
How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid2014
The Dinner by Herman Koch2014
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri2014
Long Division by Kiese Laymon2014
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben FountainPlay-In Winner2013
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam JohnsonZombie Selection2013
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenZombie Selection2013
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn2013
Building Stories by Chris Ware2013
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti2013
May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes2013
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel2013
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter2013
HHhH by Laurent Binet2013
The Round House by Louise Erdrich2013
Arcadia by Lauren Groff2013
Ivyland by Miles Klee2013
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller2013
Dear Life by Alice Munro2013
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple2013
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittZombie Selection2012
The Art of Fielding by Chad HarbachZombie Selection2012
Open City by Teju Cole2012
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt2012
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami2012
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes2012
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides2012
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht2012
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell2012
The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah2012
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst2012
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje2012
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett2012
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock2012
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward2012
Green Girl by Kate Zambreno2012
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganZombie Selection2011
Room by Emma DonoghueZombie Selection2011
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen2011
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender2011
Next by James Hynes2011
Nox by Anne Carson2011
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson2011
Model Home by Eric Puchner2011
Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky2011
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon2011
Bloodroot by Amy Greene2011
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray2011
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver2011
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart2011
Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne2011
Savages by Don Winslow2011
Fever Chart by Bill CotterZombie Selection2010
Miles from Nowhere by Nami MunZombie Selection2010
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel2010
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver2010
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James2010
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann2010
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker2010
Big Machine: A Novel by Victor LaValle2010
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie2010
The Help by Kathryn Stockett2010
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood2010
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis2010
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore2010
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo2010
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower2010
Lowboy by John Wray2010
2666 by Roberto BolañoZombie Selection2009
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. LockhartZombie Selection2009
A Mercy by Toni Morrison2009
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza2009
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen2009
A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernières2009
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon2009
My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru2009
Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas2009
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga2009
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher2009
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri2009
The Dart League King: A Novel by Keith Lee Morris2009
Steer Toward Rock by Fae Myenne Ng2009
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill2009
Home by Marilynne Robinson2009
Remainder by Tom McCarthyZombie Selection2008
The Savage Detectives by Roberto BolañoZombie Selection2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz2008
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris2008
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson2008
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins2008
You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem2008
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea by Stephen Marche2008
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida2008
New England White by Stephen L. Carter2008
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke2008
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman2008
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan2008
Ovenman by Jeff Parker2008
Run by Ann Patchett2008
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich2008
Absurdistan by Gary ShteyngartZombie Selection2007
Against the Day by Thomas PynchonZombie Selection2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy2007
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson2007
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie2007
Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali2007
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford2007
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud2007
Firmin by Sam Savage2007
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes2007
Brookland by Emily Barton2007
English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee2007
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner2007
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers2007
Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan2007
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead2007
The Accidental by Ali Smith2006
Home Land by Sam Lipsyte2006
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss2006
Saturday by Ian McEwan2006
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer2006
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro2006
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala2006
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy2006
Garner by Kirstin Allio2006
The Time in Between by David Bergen2006
The greatest man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon2006
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman2006
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill2006
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova2006
On Beauty by Zadie Smith2006
The King of Kings County by Whitney Terrell2006
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell2005
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth2005
Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick2005
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe2005
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières2005
The Inner Circle by T.C. Boyle2005
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke2005
An Unfinished Season by Ward Just2005
Harbor by Lorraine Adams2005
Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames2005
Human Capital: A Novel by Stephen Amidon2005
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat2005
The Rope Eater by Ben Jones2005
The Bad Boy's Wife by Karen Shepard2005
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark2005
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck2005

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