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Tell Me Everything
New · Fiction, Literary Fiction

Tell Me Everything

by Elizabeth Strout
2024 · 326 pages · Fiction
Critics' pick
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day

Is it worth reading?

Women's Prize for Fiction finalist (2025).

By the numbers

67.5Must-Read Score
  • Readers30 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics25 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller42 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Buzz72 out of 100 · counts 10%

Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero. The parts combine into the Must-Read Score, shown on a scale where the best book we found scores 99 and the last book to make the ranking scores 50.

Where it ranks

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