Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us HumanModern · Nonfiction, Science, History
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
2009 · 226 pages · Nonfiction
20
Modern
★ 3.88 on Goodreads · 4K ratings
Reserve shelf
≈ 6 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Baillie Gifford Prize finalist (2010). 3.88★ from 4K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
20Must-Read Score
- Readers24 out of 100 · counts 40%+11
- Critics24 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+9
- Bestseller0 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
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.
On our reserve shelf: it hasn't collected enough Goodreads ratings 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.
Shortlisted
- Baillie Gifford Prize finalist (2010)
Reads as
True story, Thought-provoking
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