People Person vs The Bluest Eye: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: African American fiction, Fiction
People Person
The author of the “brazenly hilarious” (Oprah Daily) Queenie returns with another witty and insightful “treat” (Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession) of a novel about the power of family—even when they seem like…
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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 · People Person 3.9.
- The Bluest Eye is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 6 for People Person.
- The Bluest Eye has the widest readership — 320415 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| People Person | The Bluest Eye | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.1 (320415) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (17) | 4.0 (359) |
| Google Books | — | 3.5 (27) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (42) | 4.5 (1011) |
Reception
| People Person | The Bluest Eye | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 42 | 320415 |
| Editions | 6 | 63 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 416527 |
| Reading it now | — | 17627 |
| Written reviews | — | 26498 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 31274 |
| Pages | 336 | 195 |