An Abundance of Katherines
- 293
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“An Abundance of Katherines” is a light, nerdy road-trip comedy with real humour. Some readers single out its footnotes and the hero’s friend Hassan. That hero, Colin, is a prodigy fixated on girls named Katherine who tries to turn everything, love included, into mathematics. Two things divide readers: the amount of maths, which amuses some and repels others, and Colin himself, whom some find self-pitying for long stretches.
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About the book
An Abundance of Katherines is a young adult novel by John Green. Released in 2006, it was a finalist for the Michael L. Printz Award.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.8 across 720 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 83% of the weight and the score stays at 7.0 — the Young adult average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 37 | 5% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 17 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 6.7 | 666 | 93% |
Frequently asked
What age is An Abundance of Katherines for?
An Abundance of Katherines sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 293 pages — shorter than 88% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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