Heaven and Earth vs Practical Magic: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Massachusetts in fiction, Women in fiction, Witches in fiction, Occult fiction, Witches, Women
Heaven and Earth
Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them--which, lately, isn't all that often. She's…
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Practical Magic
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders.…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Heaven and Earth highest: Heaven and Earth 4.2 · Practical Magic 3.7.
- Practical Magic has the widest readership — 175480 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Heaven and Earth | Practical Magic | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (45750) | 3.7 (175480) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (41) | 3.5 (257) |
| Google Books | — | 4.5 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (601) | 4.0 (979) |
Reception
| Heaven and Earth | Practical Magic | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 45750 | 175480 |
| Editions | 30 | 29 |
| Citations | — | 1 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 11148 | 198718 |
| Reading it now | 2823 | 12887 |
| Written reviews | 1297 | 17220 |
| Wikipedia attention | 115 | 6463 |
| Pages | 374 | 288 |