On The Road vs The Bluest Eye: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Classics, Fiction
On The Road
Described as everything from a "last gasp" of romantic fiction to a founding text of the Beat Generation movement, this story amounts to a nonfiction novel (as critics were later to describe some works). Unpublished…
1 film adaptation
vs
The Bluest Eye
Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting.…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Bluest Eye highest: The Bluest Eye 4.1 · On The Road 3.6.
- The Bluest Eye has the widest readership — 320415 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| On The Road | The Bluest Eye | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (24482) | 4.1 (320415) |
| Hardcover | 3.0 (1) | 4.0 (359) |
| Google Books | 3.5 (19) | 3.5 (27) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (621) | 4.5 (1011) |
Reception
| On The Road | The Bluest Eye | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 24482 | 320415 |
| Editions | 152 | 63 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 369710 | 416527 |
| Reading it now | 2451 | 17627 |
| Written reviews | 24482 | 26498 |
| Wikipedia attention | 24106 | 31274 |
| Pages | 255 | 195 |