Mouthful of Birds

Name: Mouthful of Birds
Author: Samanta Schweblin

by Samanta Schweblin

2009 · 240 pages · Fiction

53.6Must-Read
Score Modern

Reserve shelf

≈ 6 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

53.6Must-Read Score

Readers21 out of 100 · counts 42%
Critics12 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
Bestseller7 out of 100 · counts 14%
Buzz10 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's well reviewed, but isn't currently a prize winner, a lifetime bestseller or a book everyone's talking about, so we don't rank it. We check again every month, and it can still turn up in your 50 once you've read most of our ranked books.