Conversations With Friends vs Watermelon: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Dublin, Female friendship, Fiction
Conversations With Friends
Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance…
1 film adaptation
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Watermelon
February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Conversations With Friends is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 11 for Watermelon.
- Conversations With Friends has the widest readership — 630020 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Conversations With Friends | Watermelon | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (630020) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (584) | 3.7 (51) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (1711) | 4.0 (26) |
Reception
| Conversations With Friends | Watermelon | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 630020 | 51 |
| Editions | 16 | 35 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 6555 | 916 |
| Pages | 315 | 614 |