Good things vs Station Eleven: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Good things Good things Jane Grigson · 1971 ★★★★☆ 3.8 368 pages · ≈ 6 h 49 m · Moderate

A celebration of the seasons and the foods they bring, with more than 250 recipes featuring ingredients indigenous to the British Isles.   Originally published in 1971, Good Things is "a magnificent book" that…

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Cover of Station Eleven Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel · 2014 ★★★★☆ 4.1 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Good thingsStation Eleven
Goodreads — 4.1 (644859)
Hardcover — 5.0 (1)
Google Books — 4.0 (3)
Apple Books — 4.0 (3316)

Reception

Good thingsStation Eleven
Ratings 1 644859
Editions 9 18
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read — 642027
Reading it now — 29195
Written reviews — 73730
Wikipedia attention — 23837
Pages 368 352

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