The Morning News Tournament of Books2012

Given by The Morning News

Other Names: The Rooster
16 Works 59,250 Books 3,353 Reviews ½ 3.7
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.

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Stages:
All, Winner (20), Finalist (40), Zombie Round (72), Semi-Finalist (80), Quarterfinalist (160), Short List (335), Play-In Selection (34), Long List (2)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2024 (18), 2023 (18), 2022 (18), 2021 (18), 2020 (18), 2019 (18), 2018 (18), 2017 (18), 2016 (17), 2015 (16), 2014 (17), 2013 (18), 2012 (16), 2011 (17), 2010 (16), 2009 (16), 2008 (16), 2007 (16), 2006 (16), 2005 (16), 2025 (18)
Announced:
December 5, 2024: Short List2025 Recent

Winner 1

WorkCategoryYear
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittZombie Selection2012

Finalist 2

WorkCategoryYear
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittZombie Selection2012
Open City by Teju Cole2012

Zombie Round 4

WorkCategoryYear
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

Semi-Finalist 4

WorkCategoryYear
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittZombie Selection2012
Open City by Teju Cole2012
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt2012
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami2012

Quarterfinalist 8

WorkCategoryYear
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittZombie 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

Short List 16

WorkCategoryYear
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: A Novel (P.S.) by Kate Zambreno2012

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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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