The Great Gatsby
American novelist, 1896–1940.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
On 11 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First published
- 1925
- Length
- 177 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction
Is The Great Gatsby worth reading?
11 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library) and 100 books of the century (Le Monde).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 2 | See the list |
| 100 books of the century (Le Monde, 1999) | No. 46 | See the list |
| 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk, 2014) | Listed | See the list |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 38 | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 16 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 11 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 43 | See the list |
| The Great American Read (PBS, 2018) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of The Great Gatsby
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (2000), 177 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 2000)
- Pages
- 177
- ISBN
- 9780141182636
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Great Gatsby
Critics and readers rate it about equally: it earned 72% on critics' lists and 68% on readers' and booksellers' lists, against 0% on prize 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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