The Great BelieversModern · Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBT
The Great Believers
2018 · 421 pages · Fiction
78
Modern
★ 4.29 on Goodreads · 185K ratings
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (2019). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 4.29★ from 185K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
78Must-Read Score
- Critics70 out of 100 · counts 35%+28
- Readers86 out of 100 · counts 50%+48
- Buzz10 out of 100 · counts 15%+2
Where it ranks
- #7 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #10 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #25 of the 1,344 books we rank
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (2019)
- National Book Award (Fiction) finalist (2018)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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