12th Rooster Award for best fiction
short list & judges (here) | (Powells | long list (here)
IN MARCH download your bracket for the short list (here)
follow along each day (here) | results (here) | Bracket PDF (here)
The 2016 Rooster crows in March, which means it’s time to download this year’s brackets to make your picks for which books will live, which ones will die, and which ones will live, then die, then get zombified in the 2016 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
=====> This competition starts in MARCH and it is one that I thought I would follow along with this year. The idea of the bracket format is based on the NCAA tournament-style bracket which will be available to download later.
The discussions at the tournament site for the nominees are so lively and inspiring for book reading recommendations. I plan on binge reading as many of these now to March to be able to participate.
The Shortlist for The Morning News 2016 Tournament of Books:
by Hanya Yanagihara
Powells | Goodreads | my review
by Anne Tyler
Powells | Goodreads | my review
by John Irving
Powells | Goodreads
by Bhanu Kapil
Powells | Goodreads
An Illuminated Novel
by Zachary Thomas Dodson
Powells | Goodreads
by Jim Shepard
Powells | Goodreads | my review
by Lauren Groff
Powells | Goodreads
by Karolina Waclawiak
Powells | Goodreads | my review
by Chris Adrian, Eli Horowitz
Powells | Goodreads | my review
by Fran Ross, Harryette Mullen
Powells | Goodreads
by Kent Haruf
Powells | Goodreads | my review
by Valeria Luiselli, Christina MacSweeney
Powells | Goodreads | my review
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Powells | Goodreads
by Anthony Marra
Powells | Goodreads | my review
by Angela Flournoy
Powells | Goodreads | my review
by Harry Brandt
Powells | Goodreads | my review
* UPDATE: And the winner is...
by Paul Beatty
Powells | Goodreads | my review -still to come
