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Cover of The Hazel Wood by Melissa AlbertThe Hazel Wood
Modern · Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery

The Hazel Wood

by Melissa Albert
2017 · 368 pages · Fiction
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

57.0Must-Read Score
  • Readers1 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller58 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • 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.

Where it ranks

Why it made the list

Bestseller
36 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists since 2018

Reads as

Adventurous, Gripping

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