The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Modern · History, Nonfiction, Politics
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
2006 · 469 pages · Nonfiction
79
Modern
★ 4.36 on Goodreads · 40K ratings
≈ 12 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) winner (2007). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 4.36★ from 40K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
79Must-Read Score
- Critics83 out of 100 · counts 35%+33
- Readers80 out of 100 · counts 50%+46
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #4 of the 55 politics books we rank
- #8 of the 220 history books we rank
- #9 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #23 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) winner (2007)
Shortlisted
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (2006)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
True story
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