Olive KitteridgeModern · Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction
Olive Kitteridge
2008 · 270 pages · Fiction
55
Modern
★ 3.86 on Goodreads · 284K ratings
≈ 7 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (2009). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 3.86★ from 284K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
55Must-Read Score
- Critics82 out of 100 · counts 35%+33
- Readers39 out of 100 · counts 50%+22
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #61 of the 216 literary novels we rank
- #127 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #384 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (2009)
Shortlisted
- NBCC Award (Fiction) finalist (2008)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
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