All the Pretty Horses vs The Long Valley: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Romance norte americano, Westerns, Fiction
All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public…
1 film adaptation
vs
The Long Valley
A collection of interconnected short stories, all set in the Salinas Valley in California. The book includes classic Steinbeck stories such as ‘The Vigilante’ and ‘The Red Pony’.
The verdict
- Readers rate All the Pretty Horses highest: All the Pretty Horses 4.4 · The Long Valley 3.9.
- The Long Valley has the widest readership — 6873 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| All the Pretty Horses | The Long Valley | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.3 (358) | 3.9 (6873) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 4.1 (13) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (16) | 4.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (696) | 4.0 (20) |
Reception
| All the Pretty Horses | The Long Valley | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 696 | 6873 |
| Editions | 54 | 64 |
| Citations | — | 20 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 323 | 7154 |
| Reading it now | 4 | 357 |
| Written reviews | 16 | 618 |
| Wikipedia attention | 18283 | 611 |
| Pages | 301 | 310 |