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Cover of A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan PamukA Strangeness in My Mind
Modern · Fiction, Romance, History

A Strangeness in My Mind

by Orhan Pamuk
2014 · 564 pages · Fiction
Reserve shelf
≈ 14 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

65.8Must-Read Score
  • Readers61 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics27 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Bestseller0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Buzz4 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.

On our reserve shelf: it doesn't have enough readers yet for us to rank it alongside the Must-Read 50 pool. We check again every month, and it can still turn up in your 50 once you've read most of our ranked books.

Why it made the list

Shortlisted
International Booker Prize finalist (2016)

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