Anne of Avonlea vs Heart of the wilderness: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Orphans, Fiction
Anne of Avonlea
“A TALL, SLIM girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.”
The second story in the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables series.Now Anne is half past sixteen and she's ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school. She's as feisty as ever and is fiercely determined to…
1 film adaptation
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Heart of the wilderness
George McMannus traveled night and day from his wilderness cabin when the tragic news arrived that his daughter and son-in-law had died in a river accident. His only granddaughter, Kendra Marty, not yet four years old,…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Anne of Avonlea has the widest readership — 234768 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Anne of Avonlea | Heart of the wilderness | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (234768) | 4.1 (3586) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (231) | 2.5 (2) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (8) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1139) | 4.5 (50) |
Reception
| Anne of Avonlea | Heart of the wilderness | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 234768 | 3586 |
| Editions | 813 | 11 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 69510 | 1476 |
| Reading it now | 8340 | 73 |
| Written reviews | 13019 | 102 |
| Wikipedia attention | 6009 | — |
| Pages | 244 | 239 |