Great Expectations vs Wuthering Heights: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: British and irish fiction, Drama, Classic Literature, Fiction
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens'…
1 film adaptation
vs
Wuthering Heights
“1801.-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.”
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons,…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Wuthering Heights is the quickest read — about 6 hours vs 10 for Great Expectations.
- Wuthering Heights has the widest readership — 2281673 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Great Expectations | Wuthering Heights | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (892506) | 3.9 (2281673) |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (858) | — |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (4) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (4858) | 4.0 (5966) |
Reception
| Great Expectations | Wuthering Heights | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 892506 | 2281673 |
| Editions | 1489 | 2887 |
| Citations | 62 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 605 | 1742187 |
| Reading it now | 128 | 184443 |
| Written reviews | 65 | 125002 |
| Wikipedia attention | 43930 | 139844 |
| Pages | 546 | 356 |