East of Eden vs The Price of Salt: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Classics
East of Eden
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the…
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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
- Readers rate East of Eden highest: East of Eden 4.5 · The Price of Salt 4.0.
- The Price of Salt has the widest readership — 88740 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| East of Eden | The Price of Salt | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.0 (88740) |
| Hardcover | 4.5 (1042) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (16) | 4.5 (98) |
Reception
| East of Eden | The Price of Salt | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1042 | 88740 |
| Editions | — | 72 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 143171 |
| Reading it now | — | 5366 |
| Written reviews | — | 9969 |
| Wikipedia attention | 4680 | 7900 |
| Pages | — | 352 |