The Morning News Tournament of BooksZombie Round

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Other Names: The Rooster
72 Works 162,974 Books 8,038 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
Stages:
All, Winner (20), Finalist (40), Zombie Round (72), Semi-Finalist (80), Quarterfinalist (160), Short List (320), Play-In Selection (31), Long List (2)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2024 (4), 2023 (4), 2022 (4), 2021 (4), 2020 (4), 2019 (4), 2018 (4), 2017 (4), 2016 (4), 2015 (4), 2014 (4), 2013 (4), 2012 (4), 2011 (4), 2010 (4), 2009 (4), 2008 (4), 2007 (4)
Announced:
March 29: Winner2024 Recent

Zombie Round 72

WorkCategoryYear
The Librarianist by Patrick deWittPlay-In Winner2024
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideZombie Selection2024
The Bee Sting by Paul MurrayZombie Selection2024
Blackouts by Justin Torres2024
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
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
The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettZombie Selection2021
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeZombie Selection2021
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu2021
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami2021
Normal People by Sally RooneyZombie Selection2020
Lost Children Archive by Valeria LuiselliZombie Selection2020
Optic Nerve by María Gainza2020
Saudade by Suneeta Peres da Costa2020
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
Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersZombie Selection2018
Exit West by Mohsin HamidZombie Selection2018
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin2018
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee2018
The Nix by Nathan HillZombie Selection2017
The Vegetarian by Han KangZombie Selection2017
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead2017
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi2017
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
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
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 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
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
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
Fever Chart by Bill CotterZombie Selection2010
Miles from Nowhere by Nami MunZombie Selection2010
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel2010
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver2010
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
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
Absurdistan by Gary ShteyngartZombie Selection2007
Against the Day by Thomas PynchonZombie Selection2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy2007
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson2007

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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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