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Cover of The End of Everything by Megan AbbottThe End of Everything
Modern · Nonfiction, Young Adult, History

The End of Everything

by Megan Abbott
2011 · 246 pages · Nonfiction
Reserve shelf
≈ 6 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

51.7Must-Read Score
  • Readers14 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics18 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Bestseller0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Buzz1 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 doesn't have enough readers yet for us to rank it alongside the Must-Read 50 pool. 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
Anthony Award finalist (2012)

Reads as

True story, Gripping

How we rank

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