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Modern · Fiction, Romance, Fantasy

Shades of Milk and Honey

by Mary Robinette Kowal
2010 · 304 pages · Fiction
Critics' pick
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

56.0Must-Read Score
  • Readers5 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics42 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Bestseller14 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
Nebula Award finalist (2010)Nebula Award finalist (2012, for Glamour in Glass)

Reads as

Adventurous, Moving, Thought-provoking

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