Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage)Modern · India, Nonfiction, Travel
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage)
2004 · 542 pages · Nonfiction
33
Modern
★ 3.95 on Goodreads · 11K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 14 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) finalist (2005). 3.95★ from 11K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
33Must-Read Score
- Readers34 out of 100 · counts 40%+16
- Critics48 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+17
- Bestseller1 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
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.
Where it ranks
- #478 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #1038 of the 1,404 books we rank
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) finalist (2005)
- Baillie Gifford Prize finalist (2005)
Reads as
True story
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