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Modern · Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir

Hitch-22: A Memoir

by Christopher Hitchens
2010 · 434 pages · Nonfiction
Critics' pick
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

61.2Must-Read Score
  • Readers28 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics21 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller36 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.

Where it ranks

Why it made the list

Shortlisted
NBCC Award (Memoir) finalist (2010)

Reads as

True story, Moving

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