A Mother's Reckoning vs The Price of Salt: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Mothers, Family relationships
A Mother's Reckoning
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. In a matter of minutes, they killed twelve students and a teacher and wounded twenty-four others before taking…
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The Price of Salt
THE PRICE OF SALT is the famous lesbian love story by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Price of Salt has the widest readership — 88740 ratings behind its score.
- A Mother's Reckoning runs the darker storyline; The Price of Salt stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| A Mother's Reckoning | The Price of Salt | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (48105) | 4.0 (88740) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (43) | — |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (671) | 4.5 (98) |
Reception
| A Mother's Reckoning | The Price of Salt | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 48105 | 88740 |
| Editions | 10 | 72 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 56316 | 143171 |
| Reading it now | 2312 | 5366 |
| Written reviews | 6401 | 9969 |
| Wikipedia attention | 2669 | 7900 |
| Pages | 336 | 352 |