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Gone Girl
Modern · Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn
2012 · 415 pages · Fiction
64 Modern ★ 4.15 on Goodreads · 3.6M ratings
≈ 10 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day

Is it worth reading?

Edgar Award finalist (2013). On the Guardian 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 4.15★ from 3.6M Goodreads ratings.

By the numbers

64Must-Read Score
  • Critics51 out of 100 · counts 35%+20
  • Readers76 out of 100 · counts 50%+44
  • Buzz1 out of 100 · counts 15%+0

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