Murder on the Orient Express vs Nineteen Eighty-Four: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Murder on the Orient Express
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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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…
1 film adaptationBanned book
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four has the widest readership — 5733183 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Murder on the Orient Express | Nineteen 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) | — |
Reception
| Murder on the Orient Express | Nineteen 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 |