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2007 Morning News Tournament

The online magazine The Morning News presents its candidates for the 2007 Tournament of Books, an NCAA-style battle between literary titans for the (soon to be) coveted Rooster Award.

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by Kate Atkinson
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Absurdistan: A Novel
by Gary Shteyngart
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From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook comes the uproarious and poignant story of one very fat man and one very small country. Meet Misha Vainberg, aka "Snack Daddy," a 325-pound disaster of a human... (read more)

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