Second PlaceNew · Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
Second Place
2021 · 192 pages · Fiction
Critics' pick
≈ 5 hours to read · about 10 days at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
56.2Must-Read Score
- Readers6 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics37 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- Bestseller14 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Buzz19 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
- #226 of the 233 romances we rank
- #294 of the 309 literary novels we rank
- #455 of the 481 new books we rank
- #2659 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
Shortlisted
NBCC Award (Fiction) finalist (2021)Booker Prize longlist (2021)
Reads as
Epic
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