Beloved vs Stardust: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Beloved
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the…
1 film adaptation
vs
Stardust
E-book extra: Neil Gaiman's "Writing and the Imagination."In the tranquil fields and meadows of long-ago England, there is a small hamlet that has stood on a jut of granite for 600 years. Just to the east stands a high…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Stardust is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 6 for Beloved.
- Beloved has the widest readership — 511363 ratings behind its score.
- Stardust runs the darker storyline; Beloved stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Beloved | Stardust | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (511363) | 4.1 (488385) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 4.4 (11) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (4) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (921) | 4.5 (529) |
Reception
| Beloved | Stardust | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 511363 | 488385 |
| Editions | 107 | 62 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 631826 | 414213 |
| Reading it now | — | 10063 |
| Written reviews | 30620 | 29370 |
| Wikipedia attention | 33155 | 5321 |
| Pages | 362 | 220 |