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Cover of Fifty Shades Trilogy by E. L. JamesFifty Shades Trilogy
Modern · Fiction, Fantasy, Romance

Fifty Shades Trilogy

by E. L. James
2005 · 1625 pages · Fiction
Reserve shelf
≈ 41 hours to read · about 12 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

52.8Must-Read Score
  • Readers7 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller31 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.

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

Bestseller
28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists since 2012

Reads as

Epic

How we rank

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