The OverstoryModern · Fiction, Nature, Literary Fiction
The Overstory
2018 · 502 pages · Fiction
73
Modern
★ 4.10 on Goodreads · 211K ratings
≈ 13 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (2019). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 4.10★ from 211K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
73Must-Read Score
- Critics83 out of 100 · counts 35%+33
- Readers68 out of 100 · counts 50%+38
- Buzz10 out of 100 · counts 15%+2
Where it ranks
- #8 of the 216 literary novels we rank
- #21 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #57 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (2019)
Shortlisted
- Booker Prize finalist (2018)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
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