Scoop
British novelist, 1903–1966.
Scoop is a 1938 novel by Evelyn Waugh.
On 5 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- First published
- 1938
- Length
- 224 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Comic novels and satire
Is Scoop worth reading?
5 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph) and 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 75 | See the list |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 18 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 84 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of Scoop
The edition we link to is the Penguin paperback (1987), 224 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin (paperback, 1987)
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN
- 9780140100426
How critics and readers rate Scoop
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 39% 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
Books like Scoop
If you liked Scoop, try Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust or Animal Farm.
