My Darling, My Hamburger vs To All the Boys I've Loved Before: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Dating, Love, Young Adult, Romance, Children's fiction, Fiction
My Darling, My Hamburger
From Goodreads: “ Four friends, Two couples, One year that will change their lives. Liz and Sean, both beautiful and popular, are madly in love and completely misunderstood by their parents. Their best friends, Maggie…
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Covey keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else…
The verdict
- Readers rate To All the Boys I've Loved Before highest: To All the Boys I've Loved Before 4.4 · My Darling, My Hamburger 3.6.
- My Darling, My Hamburger is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 6 for To All the Boys I've Loved Before.
- To All the Boys I've Loved Before has the widest readership — 5268 ratings behind its score.
- My Darling, My Hamburger runs the darker storyline; To All the Boys I've Loved Before stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Want a one-evening read?
My Darling, My Hamburger
≈ 2h vs 6h for To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Just want the better-reviewed one?
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
4.4 vs 3.6 from readers
New to the genre?
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Light vs Moderate for My Darling, My Hamburger
In the mood for something dark?
My Darling, My Hamburger
a darker storyline than To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Want something lighter?
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
an easier tone than My Darling, My Hamburger
Scores by source
| My Darling, My Hamburger | To All the Boys I've Loved Before | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (3318) | 4.3 (5268) |
| Hardcover | 3.5 (6) | 3.8 (602) |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (4288) |
Reception
| My Darling, My Hamburger | To All the Boys I've Loved Before | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 3318 | 5268 |
| Editions | 13 | 27 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 5917 |
| Reading it now | — | 272 |
| Written reviews | — | 245 |
| Wikipedia attention | 570 | 18394 |
| Pages | 161 | 368 |