On BeautyModern · Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
On Beauty
2005 · 445 pages · Fiction
41
Modern
★ 3.79 on Goodreads · 94K ratings
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Booker Prize finalist (2005). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 3.79★ from 94K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
41Must-Read Score
- Critics62 out of 100 · counts 35%+25
- Readers28 out of 100 · counts 50%+16
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #129 of the 216 literary novels we rank
- #242 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #854 of the 1,344 books we rank
Shortlisted
- Booker Prize finalist (2005)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
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