Conversations With Friends vs The Idiot: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Contemporary Women, College students, Literary, Coming-of-age, Fiction
Conversations With Friends
Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance…
1 film adaptation
vs
The Idiot
Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Conversations With Friends has the widest readership — 630020 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Conversations With Friends | The Idiot | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (630020) | 3.6 (114150) |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (584) | 3.7 (188) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (1711) | 4.0 (382) |
Reception
| Conversations With Friends | The Idiot | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 630020 | 114150 |
| Editions | 16 | 15 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 268745 |
| Reading it now | — | 13037 |
| Written reviews | — | 20209 |
| Wikipedia attention | 6555 | 3632 |
| Pages | 315 | 419 |