A Beautiful MindModern · Nonfiction, Biography, Classics
A Beautiful Mind
1998 · 461 pages · Nonfiction
58.8Must-Read
Score Modern
Score Modern
Critics' pick
≈ 12 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
58.8Must-Read Score
- Readers25 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics30 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- Bestseller17 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 10%
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero. The parts combine into the Must-Read Score, shown on a scale where the best book we found scores 99 and the last book to make the ranking scores 50.
Where it ranks
- #269 of the 290 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #1352 of the 1,573 modern books we rank
- #2475 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
Shortlisted
Pulitzer Prize (Biography) finalist (1999)
Reads as
True story, Thought-provoking
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