All the Light We Cannot See vs Gone Girl: Which Should You Read?

Cover of All the Light We Cannot See All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr · 2014 ★★★★☆ 4.3 544 pages · ≈ 10 h 04 m · Moderate

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the…

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Cover of Gone Girl Gone Girl Gillian Flynn · 2011 ★★★★☆ 4.0 440 pages · ≈ 8 h 09 m · Moderate
“When I think of my wife, I always think of her head.”

Gone Girl is a 2012 crime thriller novel by American writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing Group in June 2012. The novel became popular and made the New York Times Best Seller list. The sense of…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

All the Light We Cannot SeeGone Girl
Goodreads 4.3 (2061893) —
Hardcover — 3.7 (6)
Google Books 4.5 (4) 3.5 (151)
Apple Books 4.5 (11862) 4.0 (13443)

Reception

All the Light We Cannot SeeGone Girl
Ratings 2061893 13443
Editions 72 48
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 2133539 —
Reading it now 119150 —
Written reviews 128411 —
Wikipedia attention 29517 27003
Pages 544 440

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