Girl vs The Left Hand of Darkness: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Girl
“It was October of my sophomore year and it was raining and I was sitting in my room with my geometry homework watching it get dark outside.”
An account of three years in a teenage girl's life as she forges an identity between two contrasting worlds--her straight-laced school and Portland's underground music scene.
1 film adaptation
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The Left Hand of Darkness
[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 years…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Left Hand of Darkness highest: The Left Hand of Darkness 4.4 · Girl 4.1.
- The Left Hand of Darkness has the widest readership — 576 ratings behind its score.
- The Left Hand of Darkness runs the darker storyline; Girl stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Girl | The Left Hand of Darkness | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.3 (262) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (3) | 3.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (16) | 4.5 (576) |
Reception
| Girl | The Left Hand of Darkness | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 16 | 576 |
| Editions | 7 | 91 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 502 |
| Reading it now | — | 15 |
| Written reviews | — | 27 |
| Wikipedia attention | 209 | 34258 |
| Pages | 252 | 329 |