A Little LifeModern · Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
A Little Life
2015 · 736 pages · Fiction
77
Modern
★ 4.26 on Goodreads · 1.0M ratings
≈ 18 hours to read · about 5 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Booker Prize finalist (2015). On the Guardian 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 4.26★ from 1.0M Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
77Must-Read Score
- Critics66 out of 100 · counts 35%+26
- Readers88 out of 100 · counts 50%+51
- Buzz3 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #5 of the 216 literary novels we rank
- #14 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #33 of the 1,344 books we rank
Shortlisted
- Booker Prize finalist (2015)
- National Book Award (Fiction) finalist (2015)
On the lists
- Guardian 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
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