H is for HawkModern · Nonfiction, Memoir, Nature
H is for Hawk
2014 · 300 pages · Nonfiction
43
Modern
★ 3.73 on Goodreads · 86K ratings
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Baillie Gifford Prize winner (2014). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 3.73★ from 86K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
43Must-Read Score
- Critics76 out of 100 · counts 35%+31
- Readers22 out of 100 · counts 50%+12
- Buzz3 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #62 of the 100 science and ideas books we rank
- #132 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #219 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #764 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Baillie Gifford Prize winner (2014)
Shortlisted
- NBCC Award (Memoir) finalist (2015)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
True story, Moving
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