WhirlwindClassic · Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Whirlwind
1986 · 1248 pages · Fiction
58.3Must-Read
Score Classic
Score Classic
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 31 hours to read · about 9 weeks at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
58.3Must-Read Score
- Readers23 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
- #386 of the 459 fantasy books we rank
- #714 of the 762 classics we rank
- #2509 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
Bestseller
#1 New York Times bestseller (4 weeks at #1)One of the ten best-selling books of 1986 (Publishers Weekly)
Reads as
Adventurous, Epic
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