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Tyll
Modern · Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure

Tyll

by Daniel Kehlmann
2017 · 352 pages · Fiction
Critics' pick
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day

Is it worth reading?

International Booker Prize finalist (2020).

By the numbers

68.2Must-Read Score
  • Readers65 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics27 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Bestseller8 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Buzz14 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

Shortlisted

Reads as

Adventurous, Epic

How we rank

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