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Cover of Fallen Angels by Walter Dean MyersFallen Angels
Classic · Fiction, Classics, Young Adult

Fallen Angels

by Walter Dean Myers
1983 · 322 pages · Fiction
68.0Must-Read
Score Classic
Reserve shelf
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

68.0Must-Read Score
  • Readers59 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics41 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Bestseller0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • 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.

On our reserve shelf: it doesn't have enough readers 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.

Why it made the list

On the lists
TIME 100 Best Young-Adult Books

Reads as

Adventurous, Dark

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