#7 in Biography & memoir
In the Dream House
- 288
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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About the book
In the Dream House is a memoir by Carmen Maria Machado. It was published on November 5, 2019 by Graywolf Press.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.9 across 413 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 73% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Biography & memoir average of 8.2. That is how 8.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.6 | 15 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.8 | 398 | 96% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“How do I put this. This book made me pace a lot. God. It's Machado's memoir of being in an abusive queer relationship. Each chapter is stylized or themed after a named topic; it worked for me because it was great framing for the (usually…”
“Essential breakdown of abuse and love and queerness. This one is going to be huge, and rightly so. I drank it down like a glass of seltzer at the end of a hot day.”
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It has 288 pages — shorter than 59% of the ranked books in Biography & memoir.
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