Crucible vs The Great Gatsby: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Crucible
Arriving home on Christmas Eve, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend's wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor. With no shred of evidence to follow,…
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The Great Gatsby
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Crucible highest: Crucible 4.2 · The Great Gatsby 3.9.
- The Great Gatsby has the widest readership — 6120259 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Crucible | The Great Gatsby | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (12181) | 3.9 (6120259) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (37) | 4.5 (2) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1303) | 4.5 (806) |
| LiveLib | — | 4.0 (5) |
Reception
| Crucible | The Great Gatsby | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 12181 | 6120259 |
| Editions | 3 | 1179 |
| Citations | — | 24 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 9088 | 2127185 |
| Reading it now | 3463 | 85180 |
| Written reviews | 963 | 138625 |
| Wikipedia attention | 222 | 94574 |
| Pages | 464 | 431 |