Pigs in heaven vs The Whiteoak brothers: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Pigs in heaven Pigs in heaven Barbara Kingsolver · 1993 ★★★★☆ 4.0 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees.

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Cover of The Whiteoak brothers The Whiteoak brothers Mazo de la Roche · 1953 ★★★★☆ 3.8 277 pages · ≈ 5 h 08 m · Moderate

The Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt Augusta's friend, Dilly Warkworth, arrives at Jalna and tries to snare…

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Pigs in heavenThe Whiteoak brothers
Goodreads 4.0 (70498) —
Hardcover 3.8 (44) 3.5 (2)
Apple Books 4.0 (241) —

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Pigs in heavenThe Whiteoak brothers
Ratings 70498 2
Editions 26 35
Citations 12 —
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 22644 —
Reading it now 2304 —
Written reviews 3147 —
Wikipedia attention 853 —
Pages 352 277

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