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Cover of The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy TanThe Hundred Secret Senses
Modern · Fiction, Contemporary

The Hundred Secret Senses

by Amy Tan
1995 · 418 pages · Fiction
Critics' pick
≈ 10 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

54.5Must-Read Score
  • Readers17 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics25 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Bestseller2 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.

Where it ranks

Why it made the list

Shortlisted
Women's Prize for Fiction finalist (1996)

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