The Girls of Slender Means

Name: The Girls of Slender Means
Author: Muriel Spark

by Muriel Spark

1963 · 140 pages · Fiction

65.2Must-Read
Score Classic

Reserve shelf

≈ 4 hours to read · about 8 days at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

65.2Must-Read Score

Readers57 out of 100 · counts 42%
Critics30 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
Bestseller0 out of 100 · counts 14%
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 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.