Transcendent Kingdom by Madeline Miller
Published 2021 · 59,250 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Transcendent Kingdom to read?
Transcendent Kingdom scores 56 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. 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: 55 out of 100
- Scientific vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear prose.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Faith, science, grief.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Neuroscience, Ghana.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- First person.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- Mice, addiction, faith.
- Ironic distance: 50 out of 100
- Engaged grief.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Understanding reached.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Past and present.
How Transcendent Kingdom is regarded
Transcendent Kingdom holds a literary regard score of 62 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.