Anne of Avonlea vs Kim: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Orphans in fiction, Orphans, History, 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.”
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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…
Kim
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Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long…
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The verdict
- Readers rate Anne of Avonlea highest: Anne of Avonlea 4.2 · Kim 3.7.
- Anne of Avonlea is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 7 for Kim.
- Anne of Avonlea has the widest readership — 234768 ratings behind its score.
- Kim runs the darker storyline; Anne of Avonlea stays the lighter read.
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How to choose
Scores by source
| Anne of Avonlea | Kim | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (234768) | 3.7 (40787) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (231) | 3.4 (60) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (8) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1139) | 4.0 (15) |
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Reception
| Anne of Avonlea | Kim | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 234768 | 40787 |
| Editions | 813 | 65 |
| Citations | — | 20 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 69510 | 41072 |
| Reading it now | 8340 | 3 |
| Written reviews | 13019 | 2676 |
| Wikipedia attention | 6009 | 9103 |
| Pages | 244 | 420 |
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Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Anne of Avonlea or Kim?
Anne of Avonlea has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Anne of Avonlea 4.2/5, Kim 3.7/5).
Which is shorter to read: Anne of Avonlea or Kim?
Anne of Avonlea is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Anne of Avonlea (244 pages, ≈ 4 h 31 m); Kim (420 pages, ≈ 7 h 47 m).
Which is harder to read: Anne of Avonlea or Kim?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Anne of Avonlea: Challenging; Kim: Challenging.
Have both books been made into films?
Anne of Avonlea: 2 film adaptations; Kim: 1 film adaptation.