The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyModern · Music, Nonfiction, History
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
2007 · 18 pages · Nonfiction
48
Modern
★ 4.11 on Goodreads · 16K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 1 hours to read · about 2 days at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) finalist (2008). 4.11★ from 16K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
48Must-Read Score
- Readers66 out of 100 · counts 40%+30
- Critics48 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+17
- Bestseller5 out of 100 · counts 14%+1
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
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.
Where it ranks
- #112 of the 154 history books we rank
- #270 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #603 of the 1,405 books we rank
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) finalist (2008)
- Baillie Gifford Prize finalist (2008)
Reads as
True story
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