The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

Published 2010 · 57,475 words · about 3 hours at an average pace

How hard is The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right to read?

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right scores 37 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 38 out of 100
Plain professional English.
Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
Short, clear journalistic sentences.
Abstraction: 42 out of 100
Concrete cases supporting one simple idea.
Information density: 48 out of 100
Moderate; anecdote-led rather than data-led.

How The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right is regarded

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right holds a literary regard score of 58 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

Atul Gawande