Lincoln in the BardoModern · Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
Lincoln in the Bardo
2017 · 368 pages · Fiction
47
Modern
★ 3.74 on Goodreads · 187K ratings
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Booker Prize winner (2017). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 3.74★ from 187K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
47Must-Read Score
- Critics78 out of 100 · counts 35%+30
- Readers27 out of 100 · counts 50%+16
- Buzz5 out of 100 · counts 15%+1
Where it ranks
- #62 of the 161 fantasy books we rank
- #128 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #187 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #634 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Booker Prize winner (2017)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
Moving, Epic
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