#182 in Crime & mystery
Everything I Never Told You
- 297
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 2 weeks on the list, peaked at #9
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About the book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bustle, and Time Our New York The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 660 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 81% of the weight and the score stays at 7.7 — the Crime & mystery average of 7.6 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 43 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 617 | 94% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“I enjoyed this story very much but was not amazed by the plot line and felt I wanted more from it. This story is about the struggles families of mixed races endures and especially in the 60's and 70's, the story revolves around the Lee…”
“Celeste Ng is gifted at creating gripping family dramas. I read Little Fires Everywhere first and absolutely loved it. Everything I Never Told You started a bit slow for me, but for second 2/3 of the book I was fully invested in the characters and…”
Frequently asked
How long is Everything I Never Told You?
It has 297 pages — shorter than 86% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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