Up Home
- NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Up Home by Ruth Simmons is one of 2026's most credible books, appearing on 1 of the year's most respected lists, including Bloomberg, for a Consensus Score of 12 out of 100.
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Our take
AI-draftedSimmons, who became the first Black president of an Ivy League university at Brown, writes her origin story from Jim Crow-era East Texas as the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family. Critics have responded to the specificity of her family portraits, especially her mother, over any triumphalist self-made framing.
In the press
“Simmons's evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas... to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University”
The New York Times
How the Consensus Score is calculated
Our Consensus Score is our own transparent editorial metric — not a user rating. It weighs each list by the credibility of its source, how recent the listing is, and any award status. Here is the full breakdown.
| Source | Authority | Recency | Award | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomberg | 0.80 | 0.70 | 1.00× | 0.56 |
| Weighted sum → Score | 0.56 → 12 | |||
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Frequently asked
What lists is Up Home on?
Up Home appears on 1 list in our 2026 corpus, including Bloomberg.
What is its Consensus Score?
Up Home has a Consensus Score of 12 out of 100, our transparent editorial measure of how many credible lists agree on it.