A Pale View of Hills vs Goodbye Mister Chips: Which Should You Read?

A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro · 1982 ★★★★☆ 3.8 200 pages · ≈ 3 h 42 m · Moderate

In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she…

Goodbye Mister Chips James Hilton · 1934 ★★★★☆ 4.0 114 pages · ≈ 2 h 07 m · Moderate

“WHEN you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.”

Mr Chipping is a quiet, unassuming teacher, who never veers from his established routines. Then he meets Katherine, who charms him and his students and teaches Mr Chipping that education is about more than just the…