Leave Myself Behind vs Selection Day: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Gay teenagers, Teenage boys, Fiction
Leave Myself Behind
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NOAH YORK: "Anybody who tells you he doesn't have mixed feelings about his mother is either stupid or a liar." "Real life seldom makes me cry. The only thing that gets to me is the occasional…
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Selection Day
From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, a dazzling new novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their obsessive father to become cricket stars, and whose…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Leave Myself Behind highest: Leave Myself Behind 4.1 · Selection Day 3.2.
- Selection Day has the widest readership — 3332 ratings behind its score.
- Selection Day runs the darker storyline; Leave Myself Behind stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Leave Myself Behind | Selection Day | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.2 (3332) |
| Hardcover | 4.2 (5) | 2.7 (6) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (22) | 4.0 (17) |
Reception
| Leave Myself Behind | Selection Day | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 22 | 3332 |
| Editions | 6 | 9 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 5023 |
| Reading it now | — | 358 |
| Written reviews | — | 502 |
| Wikipedia attention | 28 | 469 |
| Pages | 252 | 320 |