A Game of Thrones vs The Passage: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Epic Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction
A Game of Thrones
“We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.”
A Game of Thrones is the inaugural novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic series of fantasy novels crafted by the American author George R. R. Martin. Published on August 1, 1996, this novel introduces readers to the…
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The Passage
“Before she became the Girl from Nowhere - the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, wh lived a thousand years - she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy.”
The Passage is a novel by Justin Cronin, published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. The Passage debuted at #3 on the New York Times hardcover fiction best seller list, and…
The verdict
- Readers rate A Game of Thrones highest: A Game of Thrones 4.5 · The Passage 4.1.
- The Passage has the widest readership — 226756 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| A Game of Thrones | The Passage | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.8 (591) | 4.0 (226756) |
| Hardcover | 4.2 (4) | 3.9 (582) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (6) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (2089) | 4.5 (2170) |
Reception
| A Game of Thrones | The Passage | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 2089 | 226756 |
| Editions | 136 | 47 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 169 | 211320 |
| Reading it now | 44 | 16504 |
| Written reviews | 11 | 22266 |
| Wikipedia attention | 62730 | 5095 |
| Pages | 824 | 784 |