Tree of SmokeModern · Fiction, Historical Fiction, War
Tree of Smoke
2004 · 614 pages · Fiction
39
Modern
★ 3.61 on Goodreads · 16K ratings
≈ 15 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
National Book Award (Fiction) winner (2007). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 3.61★ from 16K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
39Must-Read Score
- Critics82 out of 100 · counts 35%+33
- Readers10 out of 100 · counts 50%+6
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #184 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #261 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #929 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- National Book Award (Fiction) winner (2007)
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (2008)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
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