Murder on the Orient Express vs Nineteen Eighty-Four: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie · 1933 ★★★★☆ 4.2 168 pages · ≈ 3 h 07 m · Moderate

While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a…

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Cover of Nineteen Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell · 1949 ★★★★☆ 4.2 244 pages · ≈ 4 h 31 m · Challenging
“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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Murder on the Orient ExpressNineteen Eighty-Four
Goodreads 4.2 (765496) 4.2 (5733183)
Hardcover 4.5 (5) 5.0 (1)
Google Books 4.5 (4) —
Apple Books 4.5 (290) —

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Murder on the Orient ExpressNineteen Eighty-Four
Ratings 765496 5733183
Editions 247 536
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 507548 3170038
Reading it now 23902 —
Written reviews 52399 171557
Wikipedia attention 64317 140637
Pages 168 244

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