Escape vs So Big: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Chicago, American literature, Fiction
Escape
In this companion to #1 New York Times bestseller The Black Book, Detective Billy Harney chases down a prison escape artist and billionaire crime boss—while a young girl’s life hangs in the balance. As…
vs
So Big
“Until he was almost ten the name stuck to him.”
So Big - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - the unforgettable story of Selina Peake Dejong, her marriage, widowhood, eventual success as a truck farmer, and of her son, Dirk. In So Big, Ferber simultaneously created a vivid…
The verdict
- Readers rate Escape highest: Escape 4.5 · So Big 4.1.
- So Big has the widest readership — 13465 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Escape | So Big | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.1 (13465) |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (8) | 4.0 (12) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (3) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1100) | 4.5 (9) |
Reception
| Escape | So Big | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1100 | 13465 |
| Editions | 10 | 61 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 19936 |
| Reading it now | — | 1272 |
| Written reviews | — | 1628 |
| Wikipedia attention | 558 | 1389 |