East of Eden vs Nineteen Eighty-Four: Which Should You Read?

Cover of East of Eden East of Eden John Steinbeck, David Wyatt & Susan Shillinglaw ★★★★☆ 4.5 Challenging

Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the…

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Cover of Nineteen Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell · 1949 ★★★★☆ 4.2 244 pages · ≈ 4 h 31 m · Challenging

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker…

The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

East of EdenNineteen Eighty-Four
Goodreads — 4.2 (5733183)
Hardcover 4.5 (1042) 5.0 (1)
Apple Books 4.5 (16) —

Reception

East of EdenNineteen Eighty-Four
Ratings 1042 5733183
Editions — 536
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read — 3170038
Pages — 244

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