How to Say Babylon
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair is one of 2026's most credible books, appearing on 1 of the year's most respected lists, including McKinsey & Company, for a Consensus Score of 15 out of 100.
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Our take
AI-draftedSinclair's memoir of growing up under her father's strict Rastafari rule in Jamaica works simultaneously as family reckoning and as a study of how patriarchal control and postcolonial politics can occupy the same household. It avoids the two failure modes common to the genre: it doesn't flatten Rastafari into either romanticized counterculture or simple extremism, and it doesn't let the father become a monster uncomplicated by love.
In the press
“I cried so many different kinds of tears reading Safiya Sinclair's How to Say Babylon.”
Tracy K. Smith, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKinsey & Company | 0.80 | 0.85 | 1.00× | 0.68 |
| Weighted sum → Score | 0.68 → 15 | |||
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Frequently asked
What lists is How to Say Babylon on?
How to Say Babylon appears on 1 list in our 2026 corpus, including McKinsey & Company.
What is its Consensus Score?
How to Say Babylon has a Consensus Score of 15 out of 100, our transparent editorial measure of how many credible lists agree on it.