Shuggie BainModern · Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Shuggie Bain
2020 · 430 pages · Fiction
78
Modern
★ 4.30 on Goodreads · 209K ratings
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Booker Prize winner (2020). 4.30★ from 209K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
78Must-Read Score
- Critics67 out of 100 · counts 35%+27
- Readers86 out of 100 · counts 50%+49
- Buzz14 out of 100 · counts 15%+2
Where it ranks
- #4 of the 216 literary novels we rank
- #9 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #11 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #27 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Booker Prize winner (2020)
Shortlisted
- National Book Award (Fiction) finalist (2020)
Reads as
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