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Cover of The President Is Missing by James Patterson and Bill ClintonThe President Is Missing
Modern · Fiction, Thriller, Adventure

The President Is Missing

by James Patterson and Bill Clinton
2018 · 513 pages · Fiction
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 13 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

58.6Must-Read Score
  • Readers1 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller66 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

Why it made the list

Bestseller
#1 New York Times bestseller (6 weeks at #1)One of the ten best-selling books of 2018 (Publishers Weekly)

Reads as

Gripping, Adventurous

How we rank

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