Lucky Jim
British novelist, 1922–1995. Won the Booker Prize in 1986.
Lucky Jim is a 1954 novel by Kingsley Amis.
On 4 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- First published
- 1954
- Length
- 272 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Comic novels and satire, Class and society
Is Lucky Jim worth reading?
4 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph) and The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 35 | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 48 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of Lucky Jim
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (2000), 272 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 2000)
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780141182599
How critics and readers rate Lucky Jim
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 35% of the points available on critics' lists, against 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