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Powell's is proud to sponsor the 13th annual March madness for book lovers, in which 18 of the best fiction titles of 2016 duke it out to be named the Rooster. 

And the Rooster goes to... The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead!

Get a read on the contenders now, and catch up on the judgments at TheMorningNews.org.

    Underground Railroad

    by Colson Whitehead [isbn]

    From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

    Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood — where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned — Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.

    In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South... (read more)


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Tournament of Books 2017

    The Underground Railroad

    The Underground Railroad

    Colson Whitehead
    The Vegetarian

    The Vegetarian

    Han Kang, Deborah Smith
    My Name Is Lucy Barton

    My Name Is Lucy Barton

    Elizabeth Strout
    Moonglow

    Moonglow

    Michael Chabon
    Homegoing

    Homegoing

    Yaa Gyasi
    The Nix

    The Nix

    Nathan Hill
    Version Control

    Version Control

    Dexter Palmer
    Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

    Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

    Max Porter
    The Mothers

    The Mothers

    Brit Bennett
    All the Birds in the Sky

    All the Birds in the Sky

    Charlie Jane Anders
    Black Wave

    Black Wave

    Michelle Tea
    The Sport of Kings: A Novel

    The Sport of Kings: A Novel

    C. E. Morgan
    Mister Monkey

    Mister Monkey

    Francine Prose
    Sweet Lamb of Heaven

    Sweet Lamb of Heaven

    Lydia Millet
    Sudden Death: A Novel

    Sudden Death: A Novel

    Alvaro Enrigue
    The Throwback Special

    The Throwback Special

    Chris Bachelder
    We Love You, Charlie Freeman

    We Love You, Charlie Freeman

    Kaitlyn Greenidge
    Theologia Judaica: Gesammelte Aufsatze. Band II

    Theologia Judaica: Gesammelte Aufsatze. Band II

    Schalom Ben-chorin
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