2001 vs Bring Up the Bodies: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
2001
A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given a little help from out there. A colaboration of ideas with director Stanley Kubrick in the late 1960's it…
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Bring Up the Bodies
“His children are falling from the sky.”
Bring Up the Bodies is a historical novel by Hilary Mantel; sequel to the award-winning Wolf Hall; and part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the powerful minister in the court of King Henry…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- 2001 is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 8 for Bring Up the Bodies.
- 2001 has the widest readership — 343293 ratings behind its score.
- Bring Up the Bodies runs the darker storyline; 2001 stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| 2001 | Bring Up the Bodies | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (343293) | 4.3 (107638) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 4.3 (183) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | 3.0 (118) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (331) | 4.5 (807) |
Reception
| 2001 | Bring Up the Bodies | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 343293 | 107638 |
| Editions | 117 | 55 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 308140 | 113981 |
| Reading it now | 4863 | 5742 |
| Written reviews | 10758 | 10039 |
| Wikipedia attention | 12511 | 3806 |
| Pages | 220 | 432 |