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Cover of Kidnapped by Robert Louis StevensonKidnapped
Classic · Fiction, Young Adult, Classics

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson
1886 · 262 pages · Fiction
Critics' pick
≈ 7 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

60.7Must-Read Score
  • Readers21 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics51 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Bestseller2 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

Why it made the list

On the lists
Guardian 100 Best Novels in English

Reads as

Adventurous, Gripping

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