Great Big Beautiful Life

#171 in Romance

Great Big Beautiful Life

Emily Henry

First published 2025Original language EN

7.67.6 / 10
Score out of 10400 ratingsConfidence 73%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#171 of 200 in Romance ahead of 15% of the category
418
Pages
about 8 h
Reading time
  • NYT bestseller · 12 weeks on the list, peaked at #1

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About the book

Great Big Beautiful Life is a 2025 romance/historical fiction novel by American author Emily Henry. Set on the fictional seaside town of Little Crescent in Georgia, it follows journalists Alice Scott and Hayden Anderson, who are competing to become the biographer of former celebrity heiress Margaret Ives.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.6 across 400 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 73% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Romance average of 7.6. That is how 7.6 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Hardcover7.6400 100%

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How long is Great Big Beautiful Life?

It has 418 pages — longer than 58% of the ranked books in Romance.

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