Cloud Cuckoo Land
American novelist, born 1973. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015.
Cloud Cuckoo Land is a 2021 novel by Anthony Doerr. It was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2021.
On 2 of the 11 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Anthony Doerr
- First published
- 2021
- Length
- 592 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- National Book Award for Fiction shortlist, 2021
- British Book Awards Fiction shortlist, 2022
- Genre
- Science fiction, Adventure, Historical setting
Is Cloud Cuckoo Land worth reading?
2 of the 11 best-of lists it could have made include it: the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year and the National Book Award for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2022) | Shortlist | See the list |
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 2021) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Cloud Cuckoo Land
The edition we link to is the Fourth Estate paperback (2022), 592 pages.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate (paperback, 2022)
- Pages
- 592
- ISBN
- 9780008478674
How critics, prizes and readers rate Cloud Cuckoo Land
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Cloud Cuckoo Land
If you liked Cloud Cuckoo Land, try All the Light We Cannot See, Wolf Hall or The Road.
