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2010 Morning News Tournament

The 2010 Tournament of Books Tournament of Books contenders are listed below. They competed in the annual NCAA-style battle between literary titans from online magazine The Morning News. To view the 2010 results, visit the archives at The Morning News.

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by Colum McCann
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by Margaret Atwood
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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
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Lowboy
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Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Will is on a mission to save the world from global warming—to do it, though, he'll need to cool down his own... (read more)

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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories
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