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New · Fiction, Adventure, Historical Fiction

The Book Woman's Daughter

by Kim Michele Richardson
2022 · 320 pages · Fiction
Book 2 of the The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series: start with book one.
Reserve shelf
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

69.8Must-Read Score
  • Readers76 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller29 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Buzz0 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.

On our reserve shelf: it's well reviewed, but isn't currently a prize winner, a lifetime bestseller or a book everyone's talking about, so we don't rank it. We check again every month, and it can still turn up in your 50 once you've read most of our ranked books.

Why it made the list

Shortlisted
Goodreads Choice (historical fiction) finalist (2022)

Reads as

Adventurous, Moving

How we rank

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