Fools DieClassic · Fiction, Classics, Suspense
Fools Die
1978 · 480 pages · Fiction
70.0Must-Read
Score Classic
Score Classic
Reserve shelf
≈ 12 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
70.0Must-Read Score
- Readers75 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Bestseller30 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
One of the ten best-selling books of 1978 (Publishers Weekly)
Reads as
Gripping
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