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Cover of The Witching Hour by Anne RiceThe Witching Hour
Modern · Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

The Witching Hour

by Anne Rice
1990 · 965 pages · Fiction
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 24 hours to read · about 7 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

61.4Must-Read Score
  • Readers17 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller61 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
One of the ten best-selling books of 1990 (Publishers Weekly)

Reads as

Epic, Dark, Gripping

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