Knife: Meditations After an Attempted MurderNew · Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
2024 · 209 pages · Nonfiction
44
New
★ 3.97 on Goodreads · 30K ratings
≈ 5 hours to read · about 10 days at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (2024). 3.97★ from 30K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
44Must-Read Score
- Critics29 out of 100 · counts 35%+12
- Readers40 out of 100 · counts 50%+23
- Buzz51 out of 100 · counts 15%+9
Where it ranks
- #130 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #329 of the 730 new books we rank
- #754 of the 1,344 books we rank
Shortlisted
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (2024)
- Goodreads Choice (memoir autobiography) finalist (2024)
Reads as
True story, Dark, Gripping
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