Gray Mountain

Gray Mountain

John Grisham

First published 2014

7.27.2 / 10
Score out of 1079 ratingsConfidence 34%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
475
Pages
about 9 h
Reading time
  • NYT bestseller · 24 weeks on the list, peaked at #1

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About the book

Gray Mountain is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham, published in hardcover on October 23, 2014. The book is set in Appalachia after the Great Recession and follows third-year associate Samantha Kofer after the Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, when she becomes a legal clinic intern in Virginia's coal mining country.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 6.4 across 79 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 34% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.2 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Hardcover6.479 100%

Reader voices

The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).

  • “Finished up Gray Mountain by John Grisham the other day. I have read almost all of his books and for me this was maybe the weakest. It takes so long for the story to progress because half the book is just used setting up the…”

    ★ 3/5wissy on Hardcover

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How long is Gray Mountain?

It has 475 pages — longer than 68% of the ranked books in Thriller.

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