Salvage the BonesModern · Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary
Salvage the Bones
2011 · 261 pages · Fiction
54
Modern
★ 3.96 on Goodreads · 77K ratings
≈ 7 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
National Book Award (Fiction) winner (2011). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 3.96★ from 77K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
54Must-Read Score
- Critics76 out of 100 · counts 35%+31
- Readers41 out of 100 · counts 50%+23
- Buzz1 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #65 of the 216 literary novels we rank
- #86 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #137 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #425 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- National Book Award (Fiction) winner (2011)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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