A Good Scent from a Strange MountainModern · Short Stories, Fiction, Historical Fiction
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1992 · 269 pages · Fiction
38
Modern
★ 3.95 on Goodreads · 10K ratings
≈ 7 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (1993). 3.95★ from 10K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
38Must-Read Score
- Critics56 out of 100 · counts 35%+22
- Readers28 out of 100 · counts 50%+16
- 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
- #187 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #264 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #936 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (1993)
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