A Tale of Two Cities
Classic · Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities
1859 · 476 pages · Fiction
62.0Must-Read
Score Classic
Score Classic
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 12 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
On the BBC's The Big Read list. One of the best-selling books ever (about 200 million copies).
By the numbers
62.0Must-Read Score
- Readers10 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Bestseller72 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- Buzz0 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.
Where it ranks
- #104 of the 116 historical novels we rank
- #625 of the 763 classics we rank
- #2184 of the 2,819 books we rank
Bestseller
- One of the best-selling books ever (about 200 million copies)
On the lists
- BBC's The Big Read
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