Dusty Answer vs Les Amities Particulaires: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall, Gay teenagers, Fiction
Dusty Answer
Rosamond Lehmann's first novel, now a classic of British literature, tells a luminous story of friendship, discovery, and forbidden love This debut novel, set in the early 1900s, tells the story of Judith Earle, a…
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Les Amities Particulaires
Novel about a romantic friendship/relationship between two French boys at a 1930s Jesuit boarding school.
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Dusty Answer has the widest readership — 1000 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Dusty Answer | Les Amities Particulaires | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (1000) | — |
| Hardcover | 2.8 (2) | — |
Reception
| Dusty Answer | Les Amities Particulaires | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1000 | 4 |
| Editions | 32 | 35 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 2629 | — |
| Reading it now | 64 | — |
| Written reviews | 151 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 445 | — |
| Pages | 340 | 442 |