The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the RipperModern · Nonfiction, History, True Crime
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
2019 · 352 pages · Nonfiction
53
Modern
★ 4.08 on Goodreads · 74K ratings
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Baillie Gifford Prize winner (2019). 4.08★ from 74K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
53Must-Read Score
- Critics44 out of 100 · counts 35%+18
- Readers59 out of 100 · counts 50%+33
- Buzz10 out of 100 · counts 15%+2
Where it ranks
- #110 of the 220 history books we rank
- #148 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #458 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Baillie Gifford Prize winner (2019)
Reads as
Gripping, True story, Dark
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