City of Bones vs Eragon: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
City of Bones
On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an…
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Eragon
One boy... One dragon... A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate City of Bones highest: City of Bones 4.4 · Eragon 4.0.
- City of Bones is the quickest read — about 7 hours vs 9 for Eragon.
- Eragon has the widest readership — 34051 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| City of Bones | Eragon | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.0 (34051) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (122) | 3.7 (2538) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (3) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1119) | 4.5 (2358) |
Reception
| City of Bones | Eragon | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1119 | 34051 |
| Editions | 13 | 90 |
| Citations | 1 | — |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 685892 |
| Written reviews | — | 34051 |
| Wikipedia attention | 59 | 18811 |
| Pages | 396 | 518 |