Leaving Atlanta vs Soul kiss: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: African American families, Georgia, African Americans, Bildungsromans, Fiction
Leaving Atlanta
"It was the end of summer, a summer during a two-year nightmare. African American children around Atlanta were vanishing, and twenty-nine would be murdered by the end of 1981. Like all kids across the city, fifth-grade…
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Soul kiss
Left by her mother in the care of her aunts at the age of seven, Mariah dreams of her mother's return and of the father she has never met, eventually beginning a correspondence with him that leads to a tumultuous visit…
The verdict
- Readers rate Leaving Atlanta highest: Leaving Atlanta 4.1 · Soul kiss 3.8.
- Leaving Atlanta has the widest readership — 7690 ratings behind its score.
- Leaving Atlanta runs the darker storyline; Soul kiss stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Leaving Atlanta | Soul kiss | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (7690) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.2 (4) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (151) | — |
Reception
| Leaving Atlanta | Soul kiss | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 7690 | 1 |
| Editions | 6 | 7 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 13781 | — |
| Reading it now | 610 | — |
| Written reviews | 842 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 501 | — |
| Pages | 272 | 207 |