The Bluest Eye vs The Road: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
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.…
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The Road
"The Road" is an autobiographical memoir presenting stories from the time that Jack London spent as a hobo in the late 19th century.
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate The Bluest Eye highest: The Bluest Eye 4.1 · The Road 3.9.
- The Bluest Eye has the widest readership — 320415 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| The Bluest Eye | The Road | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (320415) | 3.9 (4470) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (359) | 3.3 (14) |
| Google Books | 3.5 (27) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1011) | 4.0 (253) |
Reception
| The Bluest Eye | The Road | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 320415 | 4470 |
| Editions | 63 | 59 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 416527 | 4006 |
| Reading it now | 17627 | 572 |
| Written reviews | 26498 | 378 |
| Wikipedia attention | 31274 | 39682 |
| Pages | 195 | 129 |