War
New · Nonfiction, War, Politics
War
2024 · 376 pages · Nonfiction
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
#1 New York Times bestseller (1 week at #1).
By the numbers
70.7Must-Read Score
- Readers73 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Bestseller37 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
- #27 of the 44 politics books we rank
- #217 of the 481 new books we rank
- #1217 of the 2,819 books we rank
Bestseller
- #1 New York Times bestseller (1 week at #1)
Reads as
True story, Dark
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