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Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
New · Memoir, Nonfiction, Disability

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

by Alice Wong
2022 · 376 pages · Nonfiction
31 New ★ 4.21 on Goodreads · 4K ratings
Reserve shelf
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day

Is it worth reading?

Goodreads Choice (memoir autobiography) finalist (2022). 4.21★ from 4K Goodreads ratings.

By the numbers

31Must-Read Score
  • Readers68 out of 100 · counts 40%+31
  • Critics0 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+0
  • Bestseller0 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
  • 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.

On our reserve shelf: it hasn't collected enough Goodreads ratings yet for us to rank it alongside the Must-Read 50 pool. We check again every month, and it can still turn up in your 50 once you've read most of our ranked books.

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Reads as

True story, Thought-provoking

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