Academy street vs Dietland: Which Should You Read?

Academy street Mary Costello · 2014 ★★★★☆ 3.7 192 pages · ≈ 3 h 33 m · Moderate

"A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer. Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who…

Dietland Sarai Walker · 2015 ★★★★☆ 3.7 315 pages · ≈ 5 h 50 m · Moderate

Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you’re fat, to be noticed is to be judged. With her job answering fan mail for a teen magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. But when a…