All the Light We Cannot See
American novelist, born 1973. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015.
All the Light We Cannot See is a 2014 novel by Anthony Doerr. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015.
On 4 of the 15 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Anthony Doerr
- First published
- 2014
- Length
- 544 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- National Book Award for Fiction shortlist, 2014
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, 2015
- Genre
- Historical fiction, War and conflict
Is All the Light We Cannot See worth reading?
4 of the 15 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Goodreads Choice Awards: Fiction and Historical Fiction winners.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads Choice Awards: Fiction and Historical Fiction winners (Goodreads, 2009-) | Winner | See the list |
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 2014) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 2015) | Winner | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 93 | See the list |
Best edition of All the Light We Cannot See
The edition we link to is the Fourth Estate paperback (2015), 544 pages.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate (paperback, 2015)
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN
- 9780008138301
How critics, prizes and readers rate All the Light We Cannot See
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 42% of the points available on prize lists, against 29% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 0% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like All the Light We Cannot See
If you liked All the Light We Cannot See, try Cloud Cuckoo Land, Wolf Hall or Midnight's Children.
