Childhood's End
Classic · Fiction, Science Fiction
Childhood's End
1953 · 277 pages · Fiction
66.1Must-Read
Score Classic
Score Classic
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 7 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Loved by readers.
By the numbers
66.1Must-Read Score
- Readers58 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Bestseller32 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
- #171 of the 313 science fiction books we rank
- #503 of the 763 classics we rank
- #1749 of the 2,819 books we rank
Reads as
Adventurous
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