Rooster Award for best fiction
15th edition
sponsored by Field Notes and Powell's
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Each weekday in March, starting March 6, 2019, two of the books below will be read and considered by one of our judges (also listed below). One book from the “match” will be chosen to advance, with the judge required to explain in detail how he or she came to their decision. Then the judge’s decision is evaluated first by our official commentators, then by you, the Rooster fan, wherein you politely and respectfully describe how your heart was broken and your mind inflamed by such erroneous arrogance. And the next day we do it all over again.
That time of year again...
YAY! the shortlist for this annual tournament has been announced.
I read a few last year and the rest are in my tbr pile. The next couple months will be devoted to reading from this list before the competition begins.
THE SHORTLIST:
by Jami Attenberg
-Contemporary
Goodreads | my rating: 5
by Taffy Akner
-Contemporary
Goodreads | my rating: 5
by Bernardine Evaristo
-Literary, Feminism, Short Stories
Goodreads | my review: DNF
by Valeria Luiselli
-Literary
Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
by Dexter Palmer
-Historical
Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
by Sally Rooney
-Literary, Ireland
Goodreads | my rating: 5
by Kevin Wilson
-Magical Realism
Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
by Ocean Vuong
-Literary, Poetry, LGBTQ, Asian American, Vietnam
Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
by MarĂa Gainza
-Short stories, Art
Goodreads | my review: tba
by Caleb Crain
-ScFi, LGBTQ
Goodreads | my review: tba
Suneeta Peres da Costa
-Historical, Africa, Portugal, India, Australia
Goodreads | my rating: 4
by Margaret Atwood
-Dystopia, Feminism
Goodreads | my review: tba
by Susan Choi
-Literary, Coming of Age
Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
-Historical, Magical Realism, African American
Goodreads | my review: tba
by Steph Cha
-Mystery, Historical
Goodreads | my review: tba
PLAY-IN ROUND:
by Ben H. Winters
-SciFi, Mystery
Goodreads | my rating: 5
by Elvia Wilk
-SciFi, Dystopia
Goodreads | my rating: DNF
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
-SciFi
Goodreads | my rating: 5