WaitingModern · Fiction, China, Historical Fiction
Waiting
1999 · 310 pages · Fiction
28
Modern
★ 3.55 on Goodreads · 24K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
National Book Award (Fiction) winner (1999). 3.55★ from 24K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
28Must-Read Score
- Readers0 out of 100 · counts 40%+0
- Critics75 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+27
- Bestseller9 out of 100 · counts 14%+1
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
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.
Where it ranks
- #213 of the 251 historical novels we rank
- #532 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #1154 of the 1,405 books we rank
Won
- National Book Award (Fiction) winner (1999)
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (2000)
Reads as
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