The Grass Crown

#65 in Historical fiction

The Grass Crown

Colleen McCullough

First published 1991Original language EN

8.18.1 / 10
Score out of 1051 ratingsConfidence 26%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#65 of 183 in Historical fiction ahead of 65% of the category
1,069
Pages
about 20 h
Reading time

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About the book

The Grass Crown is the second historical novel in Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series, published in 1991.

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Reading order · Masters of Rome

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  1. The First Man in Rome
    The First Man in Rome1990 · 73 ratingsStart here
    8.28.2 / 10
  2. The Grass Crown
    The Grass Crown1991 · 51 ratingsThis book
    8.18.1 / 10
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Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.5 across 51 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 26% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Historical fiction average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library8.314 28%
Hardcover8.637 73%

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