A Brief History of Seven KillingsModern · Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
A Brief History of Seven Killings
2014 · 688 pages · Fiction
51
Modern
★ 3.89 on Goodreads · 40K ratings
≈ 17 hours to read · about 5 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Booker Prize winner (2015). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 3.89★ from 40K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
51Must-Read Score
- Critics82 out of 100 · counts 35%+33
- Readers32 out of 100 · counts 50%+18
- Buzz3 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #75 of the 216 literary novels we rank
- #103 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #163 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #504 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Booker Prize winner (2015)
Shortlisted
- NBCC Award (Fiction) finalist (2014)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
Gripping, Moving
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