The Night WatchModern · Fiction, War, LGBT
The Night Watch
2006 · 513 pages · Fiction
57.9Must-Read
Score Modern
Score Modern
Critics' pick
≈ 13 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
57.9Must-Read Score
- Readers8 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics49 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- Bestseller11 out of 100 · counts 14%
- 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
- #1388 of the 1,573 modern books we rank
- #2539 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
Shortlisted
Booker Prize finalist (2006)Women's Prize for Fiction finalist (2006)
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