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The Prince
Classic · Nonfiction, Philosophy, Classics

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli
1513 · 144 pages · Nonfiction
Reserve shelf
≈ 4 hours to read · about 8 days at 30 minutes a day

Is it worth reading?

Loved by readers.

By the numbers

54.9Must-Read Score
  • Readers14 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller32 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.

On our reserve shelf: it's well reviewed, but isn't currently a prize winner, a lifetime bestseller or a book everyone's talking about, so we don't rank it. We check again every month, and it can still turn up in your 50 once you've read most of our ranked books.

Reads as

Thought-provoking, True story

How we rank

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