The Burning Girls vs The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
The Burning Girls
Welcome to Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, eight protestant martyrs were burned at the stake here. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And two months ago, the vicar of the local parish…
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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 · The Burning Girls 4.0.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has the widest readership — 2070422 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Burning Girls | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (55165) | 4.2 (2070422) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (132) | 4.1 (108) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (221) | 4.5 (1216) |
Reception
| The Burning Girls | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 55165 | 2070422 |
| Editions | 9 | 130 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 1155684 |
| Reading it now | — | 43208 |
| Written reviews | — | 60089 |
| Wikipedia attention | 3467 | 66663 |
| Pages | 352 | 289 |