Imagined Communities
Classic · Nonfiction, Classics, History
Imagined Communities
1983 · 160 pages · Nonfiction
76.1Must-Read
Score Classic
Score Classic
Critics' pick
≈ 4 hours to read · about 8 days at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
On the TIME All-TIME 100 Nonfiction list.
By the numbers
76.1Must-Read Score
- Readers72 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics59 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- Bestseller12 out of 100 · counts 14%
- 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
- #108 of the 198 history books we rank
- #222 of the 763 classics we rank
- #697 of the 2,819 books we rank
On the lists
- TIME All-TIME 100 Nonfiction
Reads as
True story, Thought-provoking
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