Black Beauty vs The Lost: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Children's fiction
Black Beauty
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An Apple Books Classic edition.With Black Beauty, author Anna Sewell hoped to make people care about the cruel abuses that cab horses were suffering—bought and sold, whipped, and worked to exhaustion. Sewell tells the…
The Lost
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"Magical teen siblings Whit and Wisty Allgood struggle against a mounting public opposition to magic and a brutal crime wave led by a powerful wizard intent on ruling the City"-- Magical teen siblings Whit and Wisty…
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The verdict
- Readers rate Black Beauty highest: Black Beauty 4.3 · The Lost 3.9.
- The Lost has the widest readership — 4789 ratings behind its score.
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How to choose
Scores by source
| Black Beauty | The Lost | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.9 (4789) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (271) | 4.1 (9) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (789) | 4.5 (73) |
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Reception
| Black Beauty | The Lost | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 789 | 4789 |
| Editions | 150 | 9 |
| Citations | 36 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | — | 8747 |
| Reading it now | — | 388 |
| Written reviews | — | 336 |
| Wikipedia attention | 9579 | 1532 |
| Pages | 328 | 369 |
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Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Black Beauty or The Lost?
Black Beauty has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Black Beauty 4.3/5, The Lost 3.9/5).
Which is shorter to read: Black Beauty or The Lost?
Black Beauty is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Black Beauty (328 pages, ≈ 6 h 04 m); The Lost (369 pages, ≈ 6 h 50 m).
Which is harder to read: Black Beauty or The Lost?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Black Beauty: Moderate; The Lost: Light.
Have both books been made into films?
Black Beauty: 5 film adaptations; The Lost: no film adaptation on record.