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My Name Is Lucy Barton
Modern · Fiction, Childrens, Literary Fiction

My Name Is Lucy Barton

by Elizabeth Strout
2016 · 209 pages · Fiction
Reserve shelf
≈ 5 hours to read · about 10 days at 30 minutes a day

Is it worth reading?

Booker Prize longlist (2016).

By the numbers

57.6Must-Read Score
  • Readers6 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics15 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller47 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Buzz4 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.

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