The Candy House
- 352
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list
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Our view
“The Candy House” is an ambitious novel of linked stories, each in a style of its own, about memory and one life’s place in a crowded world. Readers who admire Jennifer Egan’s book accept that the threads never meet in a single resolution. Some lose track of who is who across the generations and come away confused about what the story is.
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About the book
The Candy House is a novel by Jennifer Egan, published by Scribner's with a U.S. release date of April 5, 2022.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 164 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 53% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.3 | 6 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 158 | 96% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Candy House?
It has 352 pages — shorter than 71% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
In this book
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