Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged HospitalModern · Nonfiction, History, Medicine
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
2013 · 558 pages · Nonfiction
36
Modern
★ 3.93 on Goodreads · 43K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 14 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
NBCC Award (Nonfiction) winner (2013). 3.93★ from 43K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
36Must-Read Score
- Readers32 out of 100 · counts 40%+14
- Critics54 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+20
- Bestseller15 out of 100 · counts 14%+2
- Buzz1 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
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Where it ranks
- #75 of the 87 science and ideas books we rank
- #137 of the 154 history books we rank
- #431 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #945 of the 1,405 books we rank
Won
- NBCC Award (Nonfiction) winner (2013)
Reads as
True story
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