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Cover of The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne RiceThe Tale of the Body Thief
Modern · Fiction, Vampires, Fantasy

The Tale of the Body Thief

by Anne Rice
1992 · 452 pages · Fiction
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

57.5Must-Read Score
  • Readers7 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller53 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

Why it made the list

Bestseller
#1 New York Times bestseller (4 weeks at #1)One of the ten best-selling books of 1992 (Publishers Weekly)

Reads as

Dark, Gripping

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