The Morning News 2015 Tournament Of Books Shortlist

It's time to get ready for The Morning News Tournament Of Books! Which book will battle the rest to come out victorious, the Champion of Books for 2015? Make sure you've read all the books on the list below by March 1 (don't worry, we've got them all at 30% off) and vote by January 12 on who you think should be revived in the Zombie Round!

Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball

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"Absorbing, finely wrought...a piercing tragedy...that combines subtlety and simplicity in such a way that it causes a reader to go carefully, not wanting to miss a word." Helen Oyeyemi, The New York Times Book Review

A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall by Will Chancellor

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“Owen Burr is a character unlike any you're likely to meet in contemporary literature. Watching him move through the world, and negotiate with his own dreams, is both powerful and revelatory.” Daniel Alarcón

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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“This jewel of a story is put together like a vintage timepiece, its many threads coming together so perfectly. Doerr’s writing and imagery are stunning. It’s been a while since a novel had me under its spell in this fashion. The story still lives on in my head.” Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

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“A fairy tale...its complex and fragile moral arrived at through great pain and high cost....Perhaps Haiti, too, is a beautiful princess, well-versed in the vagaries of men, still searching for a happily ever after.” The New York Times Book Review

Wittgenstein Jr by Lars Iyer

“[Iyer] is a deeply elegiac satirist....He manages to both send up intellectual life and movingly lament its erosion." New York Times

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

"A Brief History of Seven Killings is an amazing novel of power, corruption and lies. I can't think of a better one I've read this century." Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting

Redeployment by Phil Klay

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“Important reading; pay attention.” Library Journal

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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"Station Eleven is a magnificent, compulsive novel that cleverly turns the notion of a ‘kinder, gentler time’ on its head. And, oh, the pleasure of falling down the rabbit hole of Mandel’s imagination — a dark, shimmering place rich in alarmingly real detail and peopled with such human, such very appealing characters." Liza Klaussmann, author of Tigers in Red Weather

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

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“Mitchell returns to the genre-skipping, globe-trotting, techno-spiritual ambitions of his astonishing Cloud Atlas, taking even greater risks at even greater length.” New York

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

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“Wonderfully moving.…Emotionally precise.…A beautifully crafted study of dysfunction and grief.…[This book] will resonate with anyone who has ever had a family drama.” Boston Globe

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

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“Introspective and resonant....Brave...Offill uses her novel to explore the question of how to be an artist as well as a wife and mother, when these states can feel impossibly contradictory....She’s willing to put it all on the page, the mundane alongside the profound, revealing that they’re not quite as different as we might have thought.” San Francisco Chronicle

Adam by Ariel Schrag

"Gives an authentic glimpse into N.Y.C’s underground queer culture....A compelling page turner with a suspenseful plot....A quick, easy, and captivating read, Adam pulls you in." Bust Magazine

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

“Moody and atmospheric, this latest from three-time Booker Prize finalist Waters (The Little Stranger) has a rich historical setting…[and] keeps you guessing until the very end.” Library Journal

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

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“A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unraveling expedition and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and a claustrophobic dread that linger long afterward. I loved it.” Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

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“Completely and utterly monumental.” BBC Radio 4