The Yellow HouseModern · Memoir, Nonfiction, History
The Yellow House
2019 · 376 pages · Nonfiction
38
Modern
★ 3.89 on Goodreads · 26K ratings
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
National Book Award (Nonfiction) winner (2019). 3.89★ from 26K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
38Must-Read Score
- Critics51 out of 100 · counts 35%+19
- Readers29 out of 100 · counts 50%+17
- Buzz10 out of 100 · counts 15%+2
Where it ranks
- #152 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #182 of the 220 history books we rank
- #265 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #937 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) winner (2019)
Reads as
True story, Moving
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