The Nickel BoysModern · Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical
The Nickel Boys
2019 · 213 pages · Fiction
77
Modern
★ 4.25 on Goodreads · 330K ratings
≈ 5 hours to read · about 10 days at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (2020). 4.25★ from 330K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
77Must-Read Score
- Critics65 out of 100 · counts 35%+26
- Readers85 out of 100 · counts 50%+49
- Buzz14 out of 100 · counts 15%+2
Where it ranks
- #12 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #15 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #34 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (2020)
Shortlisted
- NBCC Award (Fiction) finalist (2019)
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