Alice Adams vs Running: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Young women--fiction, Young women, Bildungsromans, Fiction
Alice Adams
Alice Adams is Booth Tarkington’s second novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, just three years after his novel The Magnificent Ambersons won it. The novel tells the story of Alice, a Midwestern girl who grows up in a…
1 film adaptation
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Running
"Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as "runners"hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small commission and a place to stay. Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has…
The verdict
- Readers rate Running highest: Running 3.9 · Alice Adams 3.6.
- Alice Adams has the widest readership — 4885 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Alice Adams | Running | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (4885) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.4 (11) | 4.5 (2) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (37) | — |
Reception
| Alice Adams | Running | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 4885 | 2 |
| Editions | 174 | 5 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 5617 | — |
| Written reviews | 448 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 662 | 8594 |
| Pages | 211 | 288 |