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Modern · Fiction

NW

by Zadie Smith
2012 · 338 pages · Fiction
Critics' pick
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

60.1Must-Read Score
  • Readers11 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics44 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Bestseller38 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Buzz1 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

Shortlisted
Women's Prize for Fiction finalist (2013)NBCC Award (Fiction) finalist (2012)

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