Other girls vs The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Other girls
From her very first day at Willard College for Women in the late seventies, Elizabeth Breedlove is trapped. The school’s motto promises an oasis “where a woman chooses her own destination,” but so many faculty members…
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "hexalogy" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy highest: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4.2 · Other girls 3.9.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 7 for Other girls.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has the widest readership — 2070422 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Other girls | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (178) | 4.2 (2070422) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.1 (108) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (1216) |
Reception
| Other girls | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 178 | 2070422 |
| Editions | 5 | 130 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 338 | 1155684 |
| Reading it now | 20 | 43208 |
| Written reviews | 34 | 60089 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 66663 |
| Pages | 408 | 289 |