The Color Purple vs When Breath Becomes Air — Which Should You Read First?

Both The Color Purple and When Breath Becomes Air are beloved by readers. Here is what RateYourReads readers say about both, plus similar books you might enjoy.

• Works (Child's History of England / Master Humphrey's Clock) by Charles Dickens
• Gunpowder empire by Harry Turtledove
• Destinos divididos by Veronica Roth
• The monastery by Sir Walter Scott
• Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 1 (LOA #296): Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / ... of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition) by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
• Misery by Stephen King
• The Glass Cell by Patricia Highsmith