Flowers for Algernon vs Men Without Women: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Flowers for Algernon
“Dr Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.”
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he…
1 film adaptation
vs
Men Without Women
A collection of short stories, including three or four regarded as among his best. The subjects are varied, with In Another Country about a member of the Ambulance Corps in Italy during WW1, The Killers a taut crime…
The verdict
- Readers rate Flowers for Algernon highest: Flowers for Algernon 4.3 · Men Without Women 3.6.
- Men Without Women is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for Flowers for Algernon.
- Flowers for Algernon has the widest readership — 838274 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Want a one-evening read?
Men Without Women
≈ 2h vs 5h for Flowers for Algernon
Want the crowd-tested pick?
Flowers for Algernon
838274 ratings vs 16663 for Men Without Women
Just want the better-reviewed one?
Flowers for Algernon
4.3 vs 3.6 from readers
New to the genre?
Flowers for Algernon
Light vs Challenging for Men Without Women
Scores by source
| Flowers for Algernon | Men Without Women | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (838274) | 3.6 (16663) |
| Hardcover | 4.6 (4) | 3.5 (25) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (12) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (719) | 4.0 (11) |
Reception
| Flowers for Algernon | Men Without Women | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 838274 | 16663 |
| Editions | 79 | 85 |
| Citations | — | 32 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 599776 | 24846 |
| Reading it now | 22246 | 1511 |
| Written reviews | 52949 | 1453 |
| Wikipedia attention | 52988 | 3200 |
| Pages | 313 | 159 |