The White BookModern · Fiction, Poetry, Family
The White Book
2016 · 82 pages · Fiction
56.3Must-Read
Score Modern
Score Modern
Critics' pick
≈ 2 hours to read · about 4 days at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
56.3Must-Read Score
- Readers15 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics27 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- Bestseller20 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Buzz7 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
- #1462 of the 1,573 modern books we rank
- #2658 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
Shortlisted
International Booker Prize finalist (2018)
Reads as
Moving, Thought-provoking
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