Deerskin vs Home: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Conflict of generations, Fathers and daughters, Fiction
Deerskin
From the award-winning author of Sunshine comes a novel that "will involve readers from the first to the last page with its sheer beauty, its anguish, agony, horror, despair, and, ultimately, its joy" (Kliatt). As…
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Home
Hailed as "incandescent," "magnificent," and "a literary miracle" (Entertainment Weekly), hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled by Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. Now Robinson returns with a brilliantly imagined…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Home has the widest readership — 31164 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Deerskin | Home | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (24711) | 4.0 (31164) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (59) | 4.2 (37) |
| Google Books | — | 4.5 (4) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (153) | 4.0 (160) |
Reception
| Deerskin | Home | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 24711 | 31164 |
| Editions | 15 | 27 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 17148 | 37445 |
| Reading it now | 816 | 1820 |
| Written reviews | 1935 | 4576 |
| Wikipedia attention | 699 | 1477 |
| Pages | 309 | 336 |