Oh William!New · Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family
Oh William!
2021 · 256 pages · Fiction
Critics' pick
≈ 6 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
60.6Must-Read Score
- Readers16 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics32 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Bestseller36 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- Buzz26 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
- #265 of the 309 literary novels we rank
- #398 of the 481 new books we rank
- #2318 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
Shortlisted
Booker Prize finalist (2022)Goodreads Choice (fiction) finalist (2021)
Reads as
Moving, Thought-provoking
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