No name vs The Color Purple: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Sisters, Social life and customs, Fiction
No name
No Name is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. A country gentleman is killed in an accident and his wife dies shortly after him. The blow is double for their daughters, who discover…
vs
The Color Purple
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Color Purple highest: The Color Purple 4.3 · No name 4.0.
- The Color Purple is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 10 for No name.
- The Color Purple has the widest readership — 771062 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| No name | The Color Purple | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.3 (771062) |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (8) | 4.2 (706) |
| Google Books | — | 4.5 (20) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (19) | 4.5 (998) |
Reception
| No name | The Color Purple | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 19 | 771062 |
| Editions | 236 | 107 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 830359 |
| Pages | 561 | 253 |