The Hour I First BelievedModern · Fiction, Literature
The Hour I First Believed
2008 · 758 pages · Fiction
59.0Must-Read
Score Modern
Score Modern
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 19 hours to read · about 5 weeks at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
59.0Must-Read Score
- Readers28 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Bestseller34 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- 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
- #279 of the 309 literary novels we rank
- #1346 of the 1,573 modern books we rank
- #2463 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
Bestseller
28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists since 2008
Reads as
Epic
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