The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
British novelist, born 1962. Won the Costa Novel Award in 2003.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 novel by Mark Haddon. It won the Costa Novel Award in 2003.
On 3 of the 18 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Mark Haddon
- First published
- 2003
- Length
- 280 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award winner, 2003
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Coming of age, Crime, Family saga
Is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time worth reading?
3 of the 18 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Costa Novel Award and The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2003) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 19 | See the list |
| The Great American Read (PBS, 2018) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The edition we link to is the Vintage paperback (2004), 280 pages.
- Publisher
- Vintage (paperback, 2004)
- Pages
- 280
- ISBN
- 9780099450252
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 13% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 12% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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