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Cover of Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy MitfordLove in a Cold Climate
Classic · Fiction, Classics, Romance

Love in a Cold Climate

by Nancy Mitford
1949 · 324 pages · Fiction
Reserve shelf
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

64.4Must-Read Score
  • Readers54 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics30 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Bestseller0 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.

On our reserve shelf: it doesn't have enough readers yet for us to rank it alongside the Must-Read 50 pool. We check again every month, and it can still turn up in your 50 once you've read most of our ranked books.

Why it made the list

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Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

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