Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls WilderModern · Nonfiction, Biography, History
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
2017 · 640 pages · Nonfiction
49
Modern
★ 3.96 on Goodreads · 23K ratings
≈ 16 hours to read · about 5 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (Biography) winner (2018) and 1 more win. 3.96★ from 23K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
49Must-Read Score
- Critics71 out of 100 · counts 35%+29
- Readers34 out of 100 · counts 50%+19
- Buzz7 out of 100 · counts 15%+1
Where it ranks
- #104 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #133 of the 220 history books we rank
- #175 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #590 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (Biography) winner (2018)
- NBCC Award (Biography) winner (2017)
Reads as
True story
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