The Body: A Guide for Occupants

#14 in Popular science

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson

First published 2019Original language EN

8.48.4 / 10
Score out of 10346 ratingsConfidence 70%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#14 of 58 in Popular science ahead of 77% of the category
  • NYT bestseller · 17 weeks on the list, peaked at #5

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About the book

The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a non-fiction book by British-American author Bill Bryson, first published in 2019.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.5 across 346 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 70% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Popular science average of 8.3. That is how 8.4 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library8.526 8%
Hardcover8.5320 93%

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