The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
British novelist, 1918–2006.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1961 novel by Muriel Spark.
On 8 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Muriel Spark
- First published
- 1961
- Length
- 272 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Coming of age
Is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie worth reading?
8 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph) and The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 76 | See the list |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 46 | See the list |
| 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts, 2019) | Listed | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 31 | 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. 63 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The edition we link to is the Barrington Stoke paperback (2020), 272 pages.
- Publisher
- Barrington Stoke (paperback, 2020)
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN
- 9781781129241
How critics and readers rate The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 66% 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 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
If you liked The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, try Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse or The Good Soldier.
