American PastoralModern · Fiction, Classics, Literature
American Pastoral
1997 · 432 pages · Fiction
57
Modern
★ 3.95 on Goodreads · 92K ratings
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (1998). On the TIME All-TIME 100 Novels list. 3.95★ from 92K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
57Must-Read Score
- Critics82 out of 100 · counts 35%+33
- Readers42 out of 100 · counts 50%+24
- 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
- #54 of the 216 literary novels we rank
- #118 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #340 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (1998)
Shortlisted
- NBCC Award (Fiction) finalist (1997)
On the lists
- TIME All-TIME 100 Novels
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