Ender's Game vs Nineteen Eighty-Four: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Science Fiction, Fiction
Ender's Game
“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an…
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
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…
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The verdict
- Readers rate Ender's Game highest: Ender's Game 4.4 · Nineteen Eighty-Four 4.2.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 6 for Ender's Game.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four has the widest readership — 5733183 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Ender's Game | Nineteen Eighty-Four | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (288) | 4.2 (5733183) |
| Hardcover | 4.3 (4255) | 5.0 (1) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (6) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (7314) | — |
Reception
| Ender's Game | Nineteen Eighty-Four | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 7314 | 5733183 |
| Editions | 104 | 536 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 308 | 3170038 |
| Reading it now | 3 | — |
| Written reviews | 30 | 171557 |
| Wikipedia attention | 12325 | 140637 |
| Pages | 359 | 244 |