Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
★ Top 10 book of 2011 · #10 on Best Books of 2011
After a family tragedy, sixteen-year-old Jacob travels to a remote island off Wales and explores the ruined orphanage there. Vintage-style photographs accompany the tale, which hints that its odd children may still be alive.
Best for: Teens and adults who enjoy eerie mysteries paired with unusual photographs
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is #10 on BookWard's Best Books of 2011, out of 53 2011 books that cleared our data bar.
What Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is about
Jacob is sixteen when a terrible tragedy in his family sends him to a remote island off the coast of Wales. There he finds the broken remains of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an abandoned orphanage where the bedrooms and hallways are slowly falling apart. As he explores, troubling possibilities take shape. The children who lived here may have been dangerous. They may have been shut away on a deserted island for a good reason. And impossibly, they may still be alive. The story is told partly through strange, old photographs woven into the text, which lend the mystery an eerie, collected-from-the-past feel. It suits readers who enjoy a spooky puzzle, a grieving young hero, and a setting that feels cut off from the world.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children on the Best Books of 2011
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children came out in 2011. Of the 53 books first published in 2011 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #10 on our Best Books of 2011 list.
Why it made the list: 863 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.4 out of 5 (47 ratings); 40 are reading it right now. The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
Nearby on the 2011 list
- Fifty Shades of Grey E. L. James, #8
- We'll Always Have Summer Jenny Han, #9
- Start with Why Simon Sinek, #11
- Outwitting the Devil Napoleon Hill, #12
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 698 want to read it, 40 are reading it now and 125 have read it, according to Open Library.
- Ratings: 4.4 out of 5 from 47 Open Library ratings.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 72 | 55% |
| Reader love | 85 | 25% |
| Being read right now | 66 | 20% |
Questions about Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
When was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children published?
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs was first published in 2011.
Was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children one of the best books of 2011?
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is #10 on BookWard's Best Books of 2011, out of 53 2011 books that cleared our data bar. 863 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.4 out of 5 (47 ratings); 40 are reading it right now.
Why is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children on the Best Books of 2011 list?
863 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.4 out of 5 (47 ratings); 40 are reading it right now.
More of the best books of 2011
- Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari, #1
- The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller, #2
- Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman, #3
- Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson, #4
- The Son of Neptune Rick Riordan, #5
- The Mark of Athena Rick Riordan, #6
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How we know
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