Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate EpidemicModern · Nonfiction, History, True Crime
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
2015 · 384 pages · Nonfiction
59
Modern
★ 4.22 on Goodreads · 33K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 10 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
NBCC Award (Nonfiction) winner (2015). 4.22★ from 33K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
59Must-Read Score
- Readers83 out of 100 · counts 40%+38
- Critics54 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+19
- Bestseller13 out of 100 · counts 14%+2
- Buzz3 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.
Where it ranks
- #64 of the 154 history books we rank
- #121 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #282 of the 1,405 books we rank
Won
- NBCC Award (Nonfiction) winner (2015)
Reads as
True story, Gripping, Dark
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