The Painted BirdClassic · Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics
The Painted Bird
1965 · 256 pages · Fiction
41
Classic
★ 3.90 on Goodreads · 29K ratings
≈ 6 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
On the TIME All-TIME 100 Novels list. 3.90★ from 29K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
41Must-Read Score
- Critics49 out of 100 · counts 35%+19
- Readers39 out of 100 · counts 50%+22
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #169 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #224 of the 296 classics we rank
- #839 of the 1,344 books we rank
On the lists
- TIME All-TIME 100 Novels
Reads as
Dark, Moving, Gripping
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