Dear LifeModern · Fiction, Classics
Dear Life
2012 · 319 pages · Fiction
59.6Must-Read
Score Modern
Score Modern
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
59.6Must-Read Score
- Readers24 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Bestseller43 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
- #1315 of the 1,573 modern books we rank
- #2408 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
Bestseller
30 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists since 2012
Reads as
Thought-provoking
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