The Morning News x Field Notes Presents Tournament of Books 2025
Some of my favorite newsletters to which I subscribe are from The Morning News, a daily roundup of links and news, and Field Notes, the wonderful notebook brand.
They have a partnership to present one of the best bits of literary culture on the internet: The Tournament of Books.
For those unfamiliar with the tournament, here's a quick description:
Here’s how the Tournament works. Each weekday, starting March 6, two books from the shortlist are read and evaluated by one of our judges. One book is chosen to advance to the next round, and the judge explains how they came to their decision, then the commentariat—folks like you—express their feelings and thoughts about that decision and the books themselves. And the next day we do it all over again. This goes on through the month of March, until our championship match, where all our judges convene to decide which of the finalists wins the Tournament of Books, and with it our prize, the Rooster. (No one’s ever accepted the actual live rooster we offer them, fwiw.)
Here's a link to the 2025 Shortlist, bracket, and judges (plus the limited edition Field Notes 2025 Rooster Book):
The 2025 Shortlist — The Tournament of Books
The books, judges, and Zombie poll for the 2025 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes
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