Anne of Green Gables vs Wuthering Heights: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Country life, Children's fiction, Fiction
Anne of Green Gables
“MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow”
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
1 film adaptation
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Wuthering Heights
“1801.-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.”
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons,…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Anne of Green Gables highest: Anne of Green Gables 4.3 · Wuthering Heights 3.9.
- Wuthering Heights has the widest readership — 2281673 ratings behind its score.
- Wuthering Heights runs the darker storyline; Anne of Green Gables stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Anne of Green Gables | Wuthering Heights | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.3 (1151802) | 3.9 (2281673) |
| Hardcover | 4.2 (917) | — |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (4) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (5037) | 4.0 (5966) |
| LiveLib | 4.6 (149) | — |
Reception
| Anne of Green Gables | Wuthering Heights | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1151802 | 2281673 |
| Editions | 1299 | 2887 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 592061 | 1742187 |
| Reading it now | 32287 | 184443 |
| Written reviews | 51069 | 125002 |
| Wikipedia attention | 65402 | 139844 |
| Pages | — | 356 |