A Fine BalanceModern · Fiction, Historical Fiction, India
A Fine Balance
1995 · 603 pages · Fiction
72
Modern
★ 4.38 on Goodreads · 166K ratings
≈ 15 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Booker Prize finalist (1996). On the BBC's The Big Read list. 4.38★ from 166K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
72Must-Read Score
- Critics53 out of 100 · counts 35%+21
- Readers89 out of 100 · counts 50%+51
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #20 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #23 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #72 of the 1,344 books we rank
Shortlisted
- Booker Prize finalist (1996)
On the lists
- BBC's The Big Read
Reads as
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