The God of Small ThingsModern · Fiction, India, Historical Fiction
The God of Small Things
1997 · 321 pages · Fiction
57
Modern
★ 3.96 on Goodreads · 345K ratings
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Booker Prize winner (1997). On the BBC's The Big Read list. 3.96★ from 345K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
57Must-Read Score
- Critics73 out of 100 · counts 35%+29
- Readers50 out of 100 · counts 50%+28
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #70 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #114 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #328 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Booker Prize winner (1997)
On the lists
- BBC's The Big Read
Reads as
Moving, Thought-provoking
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