#71 in Dystopian
The Heart Goes Last
- 400
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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About the book
The Heart Goes Last is a novel by Margaret Atwood, published in September 2015 by McClelland & Stewart in Canada, Nan A. Talese in the US and Bloomsbury in the UK. The novel is described as a "wickedly funny and deeply disturbing novel about a near future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free."
Reading order · Positron
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- The Heart Goes LastThis book
7.17.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.6 across 170 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 53% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Dystopian average of 7.7. That is how 7.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.8 | 13 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 6.6 | 157 | 92% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“The concept of Consilience and Positron is interesting. But was it necessary for there to be a swapping between prison life and outside life? This was one part of the book that I could not fully understand the intention of, since something else other than…”
“I think Margaret Atwood is a great author and creates amazing and terrifyingly plausible future scenarios. I think this book falls in line with that and was well written. That being said, I hate everyone in this book. I want to punch Charmaine in the…”
Frequently asked
How long is The Heart Goes Last?
It has 400 pages — shorter than 60% of the ranked books in Dystopian.
In this book
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