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Cover of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher PaoliniTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Modern · Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

by Christopher Paolini
2019 · 880 pages · Fiction
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 22 hours to read · about 6 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

57.0Must-Read Score
  • Readers20 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller34 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.

Where it ranks

Reads as

Adventurous, Epic

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