City of thieves vs The Ship With No Name: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: War Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction
City of thieves
From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime. During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev…
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The Ship With No Name
The Dolittle Raid of April 1942 demonstrated to the world that the Japanese mainland, Tokyo itself, could be successfully attacked by a determined enemy, thus the cry went up for retaliation. The obvious solution is…
The verdict
- City of thieves is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 7 for The Ship With No Name.
Scores by source
| City of thieves | The Ship With No Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.3 (174769) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.3 (335) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1813) | — |
Reception
| City of thieves | The Ship With No Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 174769 | — |
| Editions | 13 | 4 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 5152 | — |
| Pages | 272 | 384 |