Beloved vs Yellow Wife: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Slavery, African Americans, Historical Fiction, History, 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…
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Yellow Wife
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is…
The verdict
- Readers rate Yellow Wife highest: Yellow Wife 4.4 · Beloved 4.0.
- Beloved has the widest readership — 511363 ratings behind its score.
- Yellow Wife runs the darker storyline; Beloved stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Beloved | Yellow Wife | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (511363) | 4.4 (97583) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 4.2 (47) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (4) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (921) | 4.5 (1088) |
Reception
| Beloved | Yellow Wife | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 511363 | 97583 |
| Editions | 107 | 7 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 631826 | 175868 |
| Pages | 362 | 288 |