Thunderhead

#4 in Dystopian

Thunderhead

Neal Shusterman

First published 2018Original language ENYoung adult

8.58.5 / 10
Score out of 10779 ratingsConfidence 84%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#4 of 81 in Dystopian ahead of 96% of the category
576
Pages
about 11 h
Reading time

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About the book

Thunderhead is a 2018 young-adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the second in the Arc of a Scythe series, following Scythe.

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Reading order · Arc of a Scythe

Full order & progress →
Score per volume3 volumes on a timeline, 2016 to 2019 · Best-rated volume: Thunderhead
  1. Scythe
    Scythe2016 · 1,273 ratingsStart here
    8.38.3 / 10
  2. Thunderhead
    Thunderhead2018 · 779 ratingsThis book
    8.58.5 / 10
  3. The Toll
    The Toll2019 · 534 ratings
    8.28.2 / 10

Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.6 across 779 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 84% of the weight and the score stays at 8.5 — the Dystopian average of 7.7 barely moves it.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library8.727 4%
Hardcover8.6752 97%

Frequently asked

What age is Thunderhead for?

Thunderhead sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 576 pages — longer than 81% of the ranked books in Dystopian.

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