The NotebookModern · Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
The Notebook
1996 · 213 pages · Fiction
56.1Must-Read
Score Modern
Score Modern
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 5 hours to read · about 10 days at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
56.1Must-Read Score
- Readers7 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Bestseller46 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
- #227 of the 233 romances we rank
- #295 of the 309 literary novels we rank
- #1467 of the 1,573 modern books we rank
- #2666 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
On the lists
PBS Great American Read
Reads as
Moving
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