Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Modern · Nonfiction, History, War
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
2015 · 430 pages · Nonfiction
74.5Must-Read
Score Modern
Score Modern
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
#1 New York Times bestseller (3 weeks at #1).
By the numbers
74.5Must-Read Score
- Readers59 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
- #121 of the 198 history books we rank
- #444 of the 1,575 modern books we rank
- #853 of the 2,819 books we rank
Bestseller
- #1 New York Times bestseller (3 weeks at #1)
- 48 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists since 2015
Reads as
True story
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