The SympathizerModern · Fiction, Historical Fiction, War
The Sympathizer
2015 · 384 pages · Fiction
62
Modern
★ 4.00 on Goodreads · 146K ratings
≈ 10 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (2016). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 4.00★ from 146K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
62Must-Read Score
- Critics78 out of 100 · counts 35%+31
- Readers52 out of 100 · counts 50%+30
- Buzz4 out of 100 · counts 15%+1
Where it ranks
- #51 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #79 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #223 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (2016)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
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